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# Senior Systems Integrator

- **Company:** Blue Origin
- **Location:** United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $145,188.0 - $203,263.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Systems Engineering, Biometrics, Network Architecture, Software Requirements Analysis, Systems Architecture, Systems Integration, Orbital Mechanics
- **Published:** July 30, 2026
- **Apply:** https://blueorigin.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/BlueOrigin/job/Greater-Seattle-Area/Senior-Systems-Integrator_R69330

## About the Role

Bachelor's degree in engineering, physics, or equivalent technical field; master's degree preferred.

 - 5-7 years of systems engineering or domain engineering experience in complex programs (space, defense, telecommunications, aviation, or electric vehicles).
 - Experience contributing to trade studies, design reviews, or technical decision processes - not necessarily leading them end-to-end, but demonstrating understanding of what makes a trade well-structured and well-closed.
 - Solid technical writing skills - ability to produce clear, accurate technical documents and decision summaries.
 - Technical depth in at least one relevant domain (spacecraft, payload/RF, software, ground systems, or network architecture) with demonstrated curiosity and ability to learn across domain boundaries.
 - Demonstrated proficiency in leveraging AI-assisted tools to accelerate documentation, analysis, and technical work.
 - Strong communication skills and a willingness to engage constructively with senior technical staff - asking clarifying questions, challenging gaps, and driving toward clarity.

Preferred:

 - Experience in satellite, constellation, or telecommunications system engineering.
 - Exposure to architecture governance processes - compliance reviews, change control, or technical baseline management.
 - Familiarity with system modeling concepts (mission simulation, link budgets, orbital mechanics) and comfort working with model outputs even if not building models directly.
 - Experience producing or contributing to concept studies, proposals, or pre-Phase A assessments.
 - Breadth exposure beyond primary domain - e.g., a payload engineer who has worked interface definitions with the spacecraft team, or a software engineer who understands ground segment architecture.
 - Experience with space sustainability, debris mitigation, or regulatory compliance topics.

## Description

The TeraWave Chief Systems Architecture (CSA) Office owns the integrated technical picture for a multi-thousand-satellite communications constellation - system-level requirements, reference missions, physics-based system models, standards, and architecture compliance. Leverage comes from artifact ownership, clear decision rights, and domain architect engagement across all VP organizations.

As a Senior Systems Integrator, you will be a key contributor to the operational cadence that drives system-level decisions from identification to closure. Working alongside Principal Systems Integrators and domain architects, you will help prepare and execute architecture compliance reviews, maintain system-level artifacts, support trade study convergence, and track actions to closure. You will develop a system-level perspective across domains while bringing depth in your own technical background to bear on real problems.

This is not a domain engineering role, nor is it a program management role. You will work across domains - spacecraft, payload, silicon, software, ground, and operations - developing the breadth needed to understand how decisions in one area affect the whole. You are expected to ask hard questions, identify gaps, and flag when something doesn't add up - even when the person across the table is more senior.

The role carries an explicit dual mandate, balanced approximately 70/30. The majority of your time supports current-system integration - contributing to compliance reviews, maintaining artifacts, and driving assigned trades to closure. The remaining allocation is dedicated to forward-looking concept work: participating in rapid technical feasibility assessments for new business ideas, constellation evolution paths, or novel mission applications. We intend to hire a small cohort across both senior and principal levels, deliberately assembling complementary technical backgrounds so the group can collectively span the breadth of the system and self-form into lightweight study teams.

If you want to accelerate your growth into a systems-level engineering leader, thrive on understanding how complex systems fit together, and want a role that combines execution discipline with creative problem-solving on what comes next, we would love to hear from you.

Special Considerations

 - Relocation provided
 - Travel expected up to 10% of the time

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

**System Integration & Architecture Compliance (~70%)**

 - Prepare materials for periodic architecture compliance reviews - gathering inputs from domain architects, assembling data packages, and identifying gaps against top-level system requirements.
 - Maintain and update the system-level artifact suite - architecture summary documents, performance budget inventory, decision records, and the architecture trades log - keeping them current, accurate, and accessible.
 - Drive assigned trade studies to closure: coordinate with contributing engineers, track progress, ensure analysis is rigorous, and draft documented outcomes for review.
 - Track actions from compliance reviews and trade decisions through to closure, escalating when progress stalls or dependencies are unresolved.
 - Monitor technical changes and requirement updates for potential impacts to system-level compliance; flag issues to Principal Systems Integrators or the CSA when cumulative effects warrant attention.
 - Support coordination of cross-functional trade teams - scheduling, capturing decisions, maintaining alignment across contributing organizations.
 - Translate outputs from integrated system models (physics, network, and operations simulations) into clear summaries that inform architectural decisions and compliance assessments.
 - Contribute to preparation of system-level positions for executive design reviews, risk reviews, and program-level decision forums.

**Forward-Looking Concept & Feasibility Work (~30%)**

 - Participate in rapid technical feasibility assessments for new business concepts or constellation evolution scenarios, contributing domain-specific analysis within multidisciplinary study teams.
 - Perform targeted technical analysis in support of concept assessments - bounding problems, running first-order calculations, and identifying the assumptions that most affect viability.
 - Draft concise feasibility summaries and supporting analysis suitable for executive review, clearly distinguishing what is known from what requires further study.
 - Research and synthesize technical literature, industry developments, or competitive landscape information relevant to concept evaluations., 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.

Background Check

 * Required for all positions: Blue's Standard Background Check
 * Required for Certain Job Profiles: Defense Biometric Identification System (DBIDS) background check if at any time the role requires one to be on a military installation
 * Required for Certain Job Profiles: Drivers who operate Commercial Motor Vehicles with a Gross Vehicle Weight (GVW), Gross Vehicle Weight Rating (GVWR) or combination of power unit and trailer that meets or exceeds 10,001 lbs. and/or transports placardable amounts of hazardous materials by ground in any vehicle on a public road while in commerce, may be subject to additional Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations including: Driver Qualification Files, Medical Certification (obtained before onboarding), Road Test, Hours of Service, Drug and Alcohol Testing, vehicle inspection requirements, CDL requirements (if applicable) and hazardous materials transportation/shipping training.
 * Required for certain Job Profiles: Ability to obtain and maintain Merchant Mariner Credential, which includes pre-employment and random drug testing as well as DOT physical


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