Reliability Engineer II

About This Role

This role is part of the Safety, Quality, and Mission Assurance team within Blue Origin Operations, focusing on monitoring and assessing processes for design, manufacturing, and operations, ensuring system safety engineering, environmental health, and safety, product integrity, and continuous improvement. As part of a small team, you will develop reliability engineering processes and products for the design of launch vehicles, spacecraft, and supporting systems, with a passion for human spaceflight and astronaut safety.

Responsibilities

• Work with systems engineering teams to verify compliance with safety and reliability requirements, including verification by analysis or test
• Assess reliability allocations and trades
• Perform fault tree analysis
• Build reliability block diagrams
• Produce hazard analysis
• Perform failure modes and effects analysis (FMEA/FMECA)
• Help engineers identify areas of opportunity for design improvements, minimize risk, and increase the probability of mission success

Requirements

• Minimum of a B.S. degree in aerospace engineering or related field
• Experience with performing reliability analyses including Failure Modes, Effects and Criticality Analyses (FMECA), and Fault Tree Analysis (FTA)
• Ability to read and interpret engineering drawings, fluid schematics, and electrical circuit diagrams
• Strong safety and mission assurance fundamentals
• Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal skills, and ability to communicate technical information to non-technical partners
• Ability to form relationships with experts from varying engineering fields and provide constructive feedback about safety and reliability concerns
• Ability to earn trust, maintain positive relationships, and champion a culture of safety, collaboration, and inclusion
• Passion for the mission and vision of Blue Origin

Nice to have:

• Experience with electronics reliability predictions
• Reliability test design

Important Details

• Application close date: Applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis until the requisition is closed
• Locations: Greater Seattle Area; Space Coast, FL; Huntsville, AL

About the Company

At Blue Origin, the vision is millions of people living and working in space for the benefit of Earth. The company is working to develop reusable, safe, and low-cost space vehicles and systems within a culture of safety, collaboration, and inclusion.