Battery Responsible Engineer

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Applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis until the requisition is closed.

At Blue Origin, we envision millions of people living and working in space for the benefit of Earth. We’re working to develop reusable, safe, and low-cost space vehicles and systems within a culture of safety, collaboration, and inclusion. Join our team of problem solvers as we add new chapters to the history of spaceflight!

This role is part of Blue Origin Operations, which is comprised of Integrated Supply Chain, Test Operations, Safety, Quality, and Mission Assurance. This includes Manufacturing and Supply Chain support across all Blue Origin facilities.

At Blue Origin, we envision millions of people living and working in space for the benefit of Earth. We're working to develop reusable, safe, and low-cost space vehicles and systems within a culture of safety, collaboration, and inclusion. Join our team of problem solvers as we add new chapters to the history of spaceflight!

This role sits in the development organization responsible for Blue Origin's battery products. We take energy storage from concept through qualification and into volume production, and we do it for every program in the company: launch vehicles, spacecraft, landers, and ground systems.

As part of a small, hard-working, and accomplished team of experts, you will be the Responsible Engineer for one or more battery products, accountable for their technical success and on-time delivery. You own the product from requirements through qualification and into delivery to the vehicle. You are the single point of contact for the programs that depend on your hardware, and the engineer who makes sure the design, analysis, test, and build activities come together on schedule.

This is an ownership role. You will lead a multidisciplinary team of mechanical, electrical, software, test, and manufacturing engineers without directly managing them. You will make technical decisions, surface risks early, and hold the team and programs to commitments. When the schedule is threatened, you are the person who finds the path to recover it.

We are looking for someone to apply their deep technical expertise, natural leadership and interpersonal skills, and commitment to quality to positively impact the aggressive missions at Blue Origin. Passion for our mission and vision is required!

As the Battery Responsible Engineer, you will:

Own the product

- Serve as the technically accountable owner of assigned battery products from concept through qualification, production, and delivery
- Lead the multidisciplinary product team, coordinating design, analysis, software, test, and manufacturing activities toward integrated milestones
- Own technical decisions and trade studies for your product, and drive closure of open issues, action items, and design review findings
- Lead design reviews and present product status, risks, and readiness to program and engineering leadership
- Maintain configuration control of the product baseline, and own disposition of changes, nonconformances, and material review actions

Interface with programs

- Serve as the primary technical point of contact for vehicle programs using your product, representing the battery team in program reviews, integration meetings, and working groups
- Negotiate requirements, interfaces, and delivery dates with programs, and manage expectations when needs change
- Define and maintain interface control documents with vehicle, avionics, power, thermal, and structures teams
- Support integration into the vehicle and lead resolution of battery-related integration and anomaly issues

Develop requirements

- Develop, decompose, and maintain product requirements from program and vehicle-level needs, including performance, environments, safety, interfaces, and life
- Define the verification method for each requirement and ensure traceability from requirements through design, analysis, and test
- Drive verification closure and own the evidence package supporting qualification and acceptance

Own reliability and safety analysis

- Develop and maintain the product FMECA, identifying failure modes, effects, criticality, and mitigations at the cell, module, pack, and system level
- Use the FMECA to drive design changes, test content, and acceptance screening, and keep it current as the design and test results evolve
- Support hazard analyses, thermal runaway propagation assessments, and safety reviews for human-rated and energetic hardware
- Partner with Safety and Mission Assurance on reliability predictions, critical items lists, and failure reporting and corrective action

Drive schedule and delivery

- Build and own the integrated product schedule, working with program planning to align development milestones with vehicle need dates
- Track progress against plan, identify schedule risk early, and drive recovery plans when milestones are threatened
- Manage technical, schedule, and cost risk through a maintained risk register with defined mitigations and burn-down
- Coordinate with Supply Chain and Manufacturing on long-lead procurement, cell supply, build readiness, and production capacity
- Report status, risks, and needs clearly and honestly to program and engineering leadership

We are looking for someone to apply their technical expertise, leadership skills, and commitment to quality to positively impact safe human spaceflight. Passion for our mission and vision is required!

Minimum Qualifications:

- Undergraduate degree in Mechanical, Electrical, or Aerospace Engineering or related field
- 5+ years of direct experience in battery or electrical power hardware development
- Experience acting as a Responsible Engineer, product owner, or technical lead on hardware taken through qualification and delivery
- Experience developing and decomposing hardware requirements and managing verification traceability
- Experience developing FMEA or FMECA for electrical or electromechanical hardware
- Familiarity with lithium-ion batteries, battery design, and battery test methods
- Experience building and managing development schedules and driving teams to meet milestones
- Experience interfacing directly with internal or external customers, including negotiating requirements and delivery commitments
- Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional teams without direct authority
- Ability to earn trust, maintain positive and professional relationships, and contribute to a culture of inclusion
- Highly organized teammate with excellent technical interpersonal skills (written and verbal)
- Ability to travel to and work at remote sites supporting test integration, commissioning, and training
- 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

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