Systems Engineer III – Remote Sensing Systems Architecture

🕒 May 19

🏈 Alabama, California, +3 more states – Remote

🏈 Alabama – Remote 🏄 California – Remote ⛰️ Colorado – Remote ⚔️ Virginia – Remote ☕ Washington – Remote

💵 $121k - $169.4k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

⚙️ Systems Engineer

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BLUE ORIGIN

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10,000+ employees

📦 Logistics

🚀 Aerospace

🎖️ Defense

💰 Grant on 2021-12

Logistics • Aerospace • Defense

Blue Origin is a space exploration company founded by Jeff Bezos, with the vision of enabling a future where millions of people live and work in space for the benefit of Earth. The company focuses on preserving Earth by expanding into space to find new energy and material resources and moving industries that stress Earth into space. Blue Origin is developing partially and fully reusable launch vehicles designed to be safe, cost-effective, and to meet the needs of civil, commercial, and defense customers.

📋 Description

• Develop and maintain system-level requirements for advanced space-based sensing systems, ensuring traceability from mission objectives through subsystem specifications • Conduct architecture trade studies to evaluate design alternatives, performance margins, and technical feasibility across competing system concepts • Author and review key systems engineering artifacts including Concepts of Operations (CONOPs), System Requirements Documents (SRDs), Interface Control Documents (ICDs), and Systems Engineering Management Plans (SEMPs) • Collaborate with cross-functional teams including payload, spacecraft bus, ground systems, and mission operations to ensure end-to-end system coherence and performance closure • Support design review cycles and provide technical inputs to program milestones and decision gates • Perform RF system performance assessments, link budget analyses, and system-level sensitivity studies relevant to space-based sensing architectures • Engage with government customers and mission partners to understand operational needs and translate them into actionable system requirements and performance specifications • Support risk identification, mitigation planning, and technical performance measurement (TPM) tracking throughout the program lifecycle • Contribute to the development of program-level technical documentation, white papers, and briefings for internal and external stakeholders

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Systems Engineering, Physics, or a related technical discipline • 5+ years of experience in systems engineering within the aerospace, defense, or national security domain • Demonstrated experience developing and managing system-level requirements using requirements management tools (e.g., DOORS, Jama, or equivalent) • Experience with space-based RF sensing or surveillance system architectures • Familiarity with Ground Moving Target Indicator (GMTI) or Airborne Moving Target Indicator (AMTI) signal processing concepts and their implications on system design • Experience with RF or sensing system performance analysis, including link budgets, system noise figure, and coverage/revisit analysis • Familiarity with systems engineering processes and standards (e.g., NASA/DoD SE frameworks, MIL-STD-499, or equivalent) • Experience supporting formal design reviews and generating associated technical artifacts • Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to produce clear technical documentation and present to varying audiences • Active TS//SCI security clearance • 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.

🏖️ Benefits

• 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% • Education Support Program • Stock Options for all regular employees (working at least 20 hours/week) • Paid Time Off: Up to four (4) weeks per year based on weekly scheduled hours • Up to 14 company-paid holidays