Job Description

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 diverse team of problem solvers as we add new chapters to the history of spaceflight!

We are a diverse team of collaborators, doers, and problem-solvers who are relentlessly committed to a culture of safety. This position will directly impact the history of space exploration and will require your commitment and detailed attention towards safe and repeatable space flight. Join us in lowering the cost of access to space and enabling Blue Origin’s vision of millions of people living and working in space to benefit Earth.

As part of a small team of experts, you will work with architects, engineers, system owners, product managers and business leaders at multiple levels (from executives to mechanics) to design and deliver critical systems that enable the manufacturing and testing of our space systems, including Manufacturing Execution Systems, Smart Factory and IIOT capabilities, and Industrial Automation. You will be directly with technical leaders and system owners, senior leaders within various business domains, software engineers and system administrators. Through these partnerships you will ensure all requirements are met and the digital ecosystem of Blue Origin is balanced and serves as a strategic enabler of our business.

We are looking for an inspiring and innovative Solution Architect, who can drive collaboration across business, engineering and operations groups to improve efficiency and accelerate innovation!

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with business partners to identify business problems, generate ideas to solve novel problems, test hypothesis through rapid prototyping and establish target state architecture to achieve business goals
• Employ the latest research and industry standard methodologies in problem domain to craft innovative and repeatable solutions
• Proactively engage with federated development teams, earning their trust through providing tactically useful input
• Define and maintain reference architectures and design patterns to accelerate new architectures, designs and implementations
• Solution, implement and operationalize new COTS and custom software capabilities; curate a library of enterprise solutions necessary for business operations available to all Blue Origin development teams
• Be the change agent to adopt new solutions to drive efficiency and enable the mission.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience
• 5 years software architecture experience including cloud native scalable distributed systems.
• Firsthand, repeated, experience making architectural decisions followed by firsthand experience supporting evolving customer needs within the architectures delivered
• Demonstrable experience with microservices based solution design, delivery, support, and continuous improvement
• Demonstrable experience working in a. highly secured and interconnected environment of SaaS, IaaS, and On-Prem software solutions
• Experience designing modern manufacturing and smart factory systems.
• Ability to deliver incremental and individually valuable steps toward a coherent scalable architecture and quickly absorb information in an unfamiliar domain and translate it into software
• Must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum

Desired:

• Master's degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Aerospace, Mechanical or field related to the responsibilities
• Manufacturing and/or Aerospace industry experience
• Safety Critical Systems design/development experience
• Experience with sophisticated Manufacturing and Testing Operations
• SysML/UML Modeling experience, Unified Architecture Frameworks and C4 diagramming techniques.

Inclusivity Statement

Don’t meet all desired requirements? Studies have shown that some people are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single desired qualification. At Blue Origin, we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every desired qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

Export Control Regulations

Applicants for employment at Blue Origin must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (i.e. current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum.

Benefits

Benefits include: Medical, dental, vision, basic and supplemental life insurance, paid parental leave, short and long-term disability, 401(k) with a company match of up to 5%, and an Education Support Program.

Paid Time Off: Up to four (4) weeks per year based on weekly scheduled hours, and up to 14 company-paid holidays.

Discretionary bonus: Bonuses are designed to reward individual contributions as well as allow employees to share in company results.

Eligibility for benefits varies by role type, please check with your recruiter for a comprehensive list of the benefits available for this role.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Blue Origin is proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer and is committed to attracting, retaining, and developing a highly qualified, diverse, and dedicated work force. Blue Origin hires and promotes people on the basis of their qualifications, performance, and abilities. We support the establishment and maintenance of a workplace that fosters trust, equality, and teamwork, in which all employees recognize and appreciate the diversity of individual team members. We provide all qualified applicants for employment and employees with equal opportunities for hire, promotion, and other terms and conditions of employment, regardless of their race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin/ethnicity, age, physical or mental disability, genetic factors, military/veteran status, or any other status or characteristic protected by federal, state, and/or local law. Blue Origin will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable federal, state, and local laws, including the Washington Fair Chance Act, the California Fair Chance Act, the Los Angeles Fair Chance in Hiring Ordinance, and other applicable laws. For more information on “EEO Is the Law,” please see here.

Affirmative Action and Disability Accommodation

Applicants wishing to receive information on Blue Origin’s Affirmative Action Plans, or applicants requiring a reasonable accommodation in order to participate in the application and/or interview process, please contact us at EEOCompliance@blueorigin.com.

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