System Safety (Rams) Engineer III - Engines (R40374)

This role is part of the Blue Origin Engines business unit, where our focus is the design, development, manufacturing, and testing of engines and propulsion systems. Built for multiple uses, our family of engines is powering the next generation of rockets for commercial, civil, national security, and human spaceflight.

As part of a hardworking team of diverse engineers, you will use data to identify factors that drive engine reliability and impact system safety and ensure safety and reliability of our engines throughout their life cycles.

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Assessing engine hazards and their causes to develop system safety constraints and control strategies

• Drive the development and validation of system requirements to ensure safety considerations are appropriately addressed

• Support early trade studies to drive design-for-system safety and reliability into the engine architecture

• Assess mission-specific risks as a result of the status of hazard controls

• Perform reliability analysis to identify design weaknesses and inform design improvements, such as Failure Modes and Effects Analysis or physics-of-failure assessments

• Review and approve engineering changes from a system safety and reliability perspective

• Investigate incidents to identify root causes and develop corrective actions to prevent recurrence

• Developing and maintaining safety documentation, including safety cases, safety assessment reports, and hazard logs

Minimum Qualifications

• BS in aerospace engineering, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, materials engineering, computer science, physics, or related technical discipline

• Proven track record of building trust and effective working relationships that improve team performance, deliver results, and contribute to a culture of inclusion

• 5+ years of experience in system development, integration, or testing of aerospace products or complex electromechanical systems

• 2+ years of experience in system development/integration or RAMS experience of either liquid rocket engines, or 4+ years of system safety, reliability, or RAMS engineering experience in any industry

• Proficient in system safety analysis techniques and tools (FTA, FMEA, FHA, etc.).

• Experience developing hazard reports and hazard tracking systems

• Experience working in a safety-critical environment

• Knowledge of systems engineering practices throughout the product lifecycle

• Working understanding of configuration management principles and practices

• Strong written and verbal communication and presentation skills

• 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

Preferred Qualifications

• Proven technical expertise with liquid rocket engines, test facilities, or space launch vehicles

• Knowledge of reliability engineering principles and practices.

• Experience with Weibull analysis and parameter estimation, stress-strength interference analyses, probability distribution estimation, reliability growth modeling, and probabilistic risk analysis

• Experience working with reliability analysis and reliability modeling on a software such as Minitab/Matlab/Saphire/ Reliasoft/ Ansys Sherlock

• Proven experience with reliability/life test design (failure modes discovery, life demonstration, and screening)

• Experience with failure or problem reporting and corrective action systems (FRACAS)

• Experience with reliability engineering for electrical components and circuit card assemblies

• Experience integrating sophisticated subsystems into a spacecraft, launch vehicle, or test facility

• Experience implementing, customizing or improving system safety policy and procedure for a development engineering environment and transitioning products to operation and production

• Experience using scripting languages such as VBA and Python to automate processes and analyses

• Experience with systems engineering tools such as DOORS, DNG, or similar

• Experience in reading/viewing mechanical drawings and CAD models in typical CAD softwares such as CreoView/NX.

• Basic project management skills