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# Manager - Cryogenic Fluids and Main Propulsion System Analysis, Technical Design

- **Company:** Blue Origin
- **Location:** Seattle, WA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $138,181.0 - $193,453.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Computer-Aided Design, Agile Methodology, Systems Engineering, Biometrics, Requirements Management, Verification and Validation (Software), Subsystems, Windchill, Reliability of Systems, Creo
- **Published:** July 30, 2026
- **Apply:** https://jobs.localjobnetwork.com/apply/add/87886837/1

## About the Role

We are looking for someone to apply their technical expertise, leadership skills, communication skills, and dedication to quality to positively impact safe human spaceflight. Passion for our mission and vision is required!, * B.S. in Engineering or related technical subject area

 * Demonstrated ability to coach, mentor, lead teams
 * 8+ years related technical experience
 * In depth understanding of fluids and mechanical engineering principles
 * Track record of delivering integrated products, on schedule and within budget
 * Excellent verbal, written, and graphical communication skills
 * Familiarity with agile project management

Desired:

 * 5+ years managing/leading technical teams and/or leading functional groups with responsibility for leading and coaching/mentoring employees
 * Demonstrated ability to provide cost and schedule leadership of a team
 * Experience with cryogenic fluid systems
 * Experience with space vehicle design
 * Experience with valves or mechanical components
 * Experience managing suppliers/subcontracts
 * Experience with aerospace components
 * Experience with CAD (Creo), Windchill PLM and GD&T
 * Experience performing reliability analysis to identify design weaknesses and inform design improvements, such as Failure Modes and Effects and Criticality Analysis (FMECA)
 * Experience with certification of human-rated space systems
 * Experience with critical path scheduling, IMP/IMS, risk management, requirements management and Cost Account Management such as EVM

## Description

* Lead a fluids systems engineering and analysis team to deliver high-performance fluids and propulsion deliverables for the Transfer Stage vehicles, ensuring alignment with mission objectives while balancing cost, schedule, and risk.
 * Lead analysis collaboration with NASA.
 * Lead Verification and Validation activities leading up to and through vehicle certifications.
 * Define, specify, and flow down information to help Responsible Engineers to develop hardware. You will work closely with customers, suppliers, and Blue Origin groups.
 * Recruit, hire, manage, and mentor a team of ~6-8 direct reports, focusing on their professional development through coaching, performance reviews, and routine one-on-one conversations.
 * Develop and manage robust plans, product roadmaps, and key operating metrics for technical performance, cost, schedule, and risk.
 * Provide technical leadership, monitor progress, and communicate updates to the Main Propulsion System Single Threaded Leader (STL).
 * Ensure the efficient and effective design, manufacture, procurement, testing, qualification, and delivery of the Main Propulsion Subsystem.
 * Work with STL to manage the technical configuration, customer deliverables, and address scope changes and solving emergent issues that impact program success.
 * Foster technical expertise and high standards within the team, reporting to the STL.
 * 80% of time will be product ownership and technical deliverables while the other 20% will be functional management., 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, Blue Origin is proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer and is committed to attracting, retaining, and developing a highly qualified 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. 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, sex, 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 "Know Your Rights," 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 atEEOCompliance@blueorigin.com. Please note this is a publicly managed inbox. Please do not include any personal medical information in your request.

ITAR Requirements

To conform to U.S. Government commercial space technology export regulations, including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR), 8 U.S.C. § 1324b(a)(3), applicants for employment at Blue Origin must be a U.S. citizen or national, lawfully admitted for permanent residence into the U.S. (i.e. current green card holder), or lawfully admitted as a refugee or granted asylum under 8 U.S.C. § 1157-1158. Learn more about the ITAR here.

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. For more information on "EEO Is the Law," please see here and here.


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