Hybrid Configurator III, Design – Sustaining Engineering

at BLUE ORIGIN

• Job title: Configurator III, Design – Sustaining Engineering
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Mid level, Senior
• Salary: $121,023 - $169,432 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Assembly
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Space Coast, United States

About the role

• Engineer leading configuration development for New Glenn, a heavy-lift orbital launch vehicle. Collaborating with teams on vehicle design, management, and integration.

Responsibilities

• Lead an integrated product team (IPT) to define configuration baselines for vehicle design changes, modifications, and variants.
• Own the integrated configuration across structural, mechanical, fluids, and electrical subsystems, ensuring a coherent vehicle-level design solution.
• Drive development and flow-down of configuration-related requirements and support verification planning for design changes.
• Lead cross-functional trade studies and impact assessments for proposed configuration changes and design options.
• Coordinate and communicate configuration and design changes across affected subsystems, resolving conflicts and dependencies.
• Own configuration management for assigned scope, ensuring accurate baselines, revisions, and traceability in alignment with Blue standards.
• Lead and review Engineering Change Requests (ECRs) within your area, ensuring completeness, technical accuracy, and configuration integrity.
• Define and maintain interface configurations between subsystems, including appropriate model-based definitions and control documents.
• Manage cross-module integration priorities and expectations, driving resolution of configuration and integration issues between engineering teams.
• Ensure that configuration baselines and documentation support major design reviews and integration milestones.
• Track and report configuration-related development status, including schedule, risk, and key technical issues for your scope.
• Ensure manufacturing, assembly, integration test, and concept of operations considerations are incorporated into configuration decisions.
• Provide technical guidance to integration and test teams to ensure configuration intent is understood and maintained.
• Champion adherence to configuration management best practices and Blue Origin configuration management standards across the IPT.

Requirements

• B.S. degree in engineering and at least 5+ years of experience in aircraft or spacecraft mechanical design, configuration, and layout engineering
• Demonstrated design configuration control experience on recently developed products and equipment used in oil/gas, aircraft, or launch vehicles from early trade studies through final design, and into manufacturing and test
• Strong interpersonal and teamwork skills and experience working in a highly integrated cross-functional team environment
• Strong design and integration skills using 3-D CAD software and visualization tools
• Demonstrated knowledge of scheduling and planning principles and tools

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
• Up to four (4) weeks paid time off per year based on weekly scheduled hours
• Up to 14 company-paid holidays