Sr. Principal Engineer, Spacecraft Health & Observability
Blue Origin4 days ago
Huntsville, AL, USA +4 moreStaff+
Base Salary
$259k - $370k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own the end-to-end spacecraft and compute health monitoring architecture, including monitored parameters, anomaly detection, telemetry flows, dashboards, and alerting.
- Design health monitoring software for spacecraft platform bus systems and high-performance compute payloads.
- Define anomaly detection algorithms, operating envelopes, onboard real-time limit checking, trending methods, and predictive health models.
- Own onboard telemetry collection and prioritization, downlink bandwidth allocation, ground-side ingestion and storage, and fleet-wide health aggregation.
- Develop fleet-level health assessments showing constellation operational status and long-term performance trends.
- Work with subsystem Responsible Engineers to define critical monitoring parameters and anomalous behavior.
- Collaborate with Mission Operations on health alerting, escalation procedures, and anomaly investigation workflows.
- Work with Flight Software teams to implement onboard health monitoring software.
- Lead complex technical projects and influence cross-functional teams without direct authority.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Aerospace Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
- At least 12 years of professional software engineering experience with deep expertise in monitoring systems, telemetry processing, or health management for complex systems.
- Experience designing and implementing health monitoring architectures for complex distributed systems such as spacecraft, data center fleets, or autonomous vehicles.
- Strong systems engineering judgment and ability to understand complex hardware subsystems.
- Experience with time-series data systems such as Prometheus or InfluxDB, statistical process control, and predictive maintenance algorithms.
- Must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident and current Green Card holder, or lawfully admitted refugee or person granted asylum.
- Master’s or Ph.D. in a relevant engineering or scientific field is preferred.
- Direct spacecraft health monitoring or Fault Detection, Isolation, and Recovery experience is preferred.
- Transferable health monitoring experience from autonomous vehicles, industrial control systems, or SRE/observability for hyperscale hardware fleets is preferred.
- Experience developing C++, Python, or other relevant software for embedded or distributed systems is preferred.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision, basic and supplemental life insurance, paid parental leave, short- and long-term disability, 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.
- Benefits and discretionary bonuses may vary by role type and job level; bonus amounts and eligibility are not guaranteed.
- Applications are accepted on an ongoing basis until the requisition is closed.
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.