Mass Properties and Integration Systems Engineer - Lunar Permanence

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Applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis until the requisition is closed. At Blue Origin, we envision millions of people living and working in space for the benefit of Earth. We're working to develop reusable, safe, and low-cost space vehicles and systems within a culture of safety, collaboration, and inclusion. Join our team of problem solvers as we add new chapters to the history of spaceflight! This role is part of the Lunar Permanence business unit, which develops Blue Origin's Blue Moon landers and related products. To further Blue Origin's mission of millions of people living and working in space for the benefit of Earth, we are building sustainable infrastructure for our transport of crew and cargo from Earth to the lunar surface. We are looking for a Systems Engineer III to support mass properties engineering for the Mk1 Transfer Stage. This role owns the day-to-day maintenance and analysis of the mass-properties Bill of Materials (BOM), supports mass property predictions and tracking across the vehicle lifecycle. You'll work closely with design, manufacturing, integration, and test teams to ensure the vehicle's mass, center of gravity, and moments of inertia are understood, tracked, and reported accurately at every program milestone. Mass properties data underpins nearly every other engineering discipline on the vehicle - from structural margins to guidance and control to propellant budgeting. As a Systems Engineer II on this team, you won't just track mass - you'll actively work with Fluids, Avionics, Thermal, GN&C, and Structures to find where mass can come out of the vehicle, and partner with manufacturing on trades that balance metrics for the best cost to performance ratio for our customers. Your work directly supports program-level decisions and keeps the vehicle within its mass and CG requirements throughout design, build, and test. Beyond tracking and reporting, this role is expected to dig into subsystem designs to find and drive mass reduction opportunities. You'll build close working partnerships with system leads championing minimum-mass solutions and partnering with manufacturing teams on trade studies that balance mass, cost, and producibility. This is a strong fit for an engineer who wants hands-on ownership of a critical vehicle integration discipline, is comfortable getting into the design weeds with other subsystems, and enjoys cross-functional collaboration, hardware exposure, and design reviews. What You'll Do

• Maintain the MK1 Transfer Stage mass-properties model keeping component mass, CG, and inertia data accurate and traceable as the design matures
• Support mass roll-ups and margin tracking against stage allocations, flagging growth trends to responsible subsystem leads and program leadership
• Reconcile predicted against measured mass properties and support root-cause investigations when discrepancies appear
• Assist planning and execution of stage and vehicle-level CG and weighing operations, including test setup

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