Principal AI Engineer - Blue Ring
Blue Origin3 days ago
Base Salary
$231k - $323k/yr
Responsibilities
- Implement and test multi-agent components for telemetry analysis, anomaly detection, and reporting.
- Build agent integrations, tooling, prompt templates, and orchestration logic for LLM services.
- Develop and maintain RAG pipelines for document ingestion, embedding generation, vector indexing, retrieval, and answer generation.
- Implement human-in-the-loop investigation and remediation workflows for operators.
- Deploy and maintain containerized AI services using Docker and AWS infrastructure.
- Support audit trails, observability, production operations, and incident response.
- Prepare spacecraft telemetry data and assist with training and evaluating anomaly detection and time-series forecasting models.
- Maintain automated model retraining pipelines and develop model evaluation scripts and metrics tracking.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Electrical Engineering, or a related field is required.
- 10+ years of professional software development experience with exposure to AI/ML applications is required.
- Proficiency in Python and familiarity with PyTorch or TensorFlow are required.
- Experience with LLM applications, RAG pipelines, or agent-based systems is required.
- Experience with time-series data processing, anomaly detection, or ML model training on sensor or telemetry data is required.
- Experience with cloud platforms, preferably AWS, Docker, and basic CI/CD practices is required.
- Knowledge of data structures, algorithms, object-oriented design, and version control is required.
- Preferred qualifications include a PhD, AWS Bedrock or SageMaker experience, Databricks, vector databases, time-series ML architectures, multi-agent frameworks, spacecraft operations, Terraform, Kubernetes, Kafka, Kinesis, reinforcement learning, graph neural networks, model compression, edge deployment, or resource-constrained inference.
- Applicants must be able to work onsite in Kent or Renton, Washington, or Reston, Virginia.
- Applicants must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident, or lawfully admitted refugee or asylee under export control regulations.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision, basic and supplemental life insurance, paid parental leave, short- and long-term disability, a 401(k) with up to a 5% company match, and an Education Support Program.
- Stock options are available to regular employees working at least 20 hours per week.
- Up to four weeks of paid time off per year based on scheduled hours and up to 14 company-paid holidays.
- Eligible employees may receive discretionary benefits or bonuses based on role type and job level; bonus amounts are not guaranteed.
- The role requires onsite work in Kent, Renton, WA, or Reston, VA.
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About Blue Origin
Blue Origin designs and manufactures rocket engines, reusable launch vehicles, and lunar transport systems for commercial and government customers. Its products include the suborbital New Shepard, the in-development New Glenn orbital rocket, BE-4 engines (used on ULA’s Vulcan), and the Blue Moon lander; revenue comes from launch services, engine supply, and space systems contracts, including a NASA Human Landing System award. Founded in 2000 by Jeff Bezos, the company is headquartered in Kent, Washington.