BLUE ORIGIN

• Develop and maintain system-level requirements for advanced space-based sensing systems, ensuring traceability from mission objectives through subsystem specifications • Conduct architecture trade studies to evaluate design alternatives, performance margins, and technical feasibility across competing system concepts • Author and review key systems engineering artifacts including Concepts of Operations (CONOPs), System Requirements Documents (SRDs), Interface Control Documents (ICDs), and Systems Engineering Management Plans (SEMPs) • Collaborate with cross-functional teams including payload, spacecraft bus, ground systems, and mission operations to ensure end-to-end system coherence and performance closure • Support design review cycles and provide technical inputs to program milestones and decision gates • Perform RF system performance assessments, link budget analyses, and system-level sensitivity studies relevant to space-based sensing architectures • Engage with government customers and mission partners to understand operational needs and translate them into actionable system requirements and performance specifications • Support risk identification, mitigation planning, and technical performance measurement (TPM) tracking throughout the program lifecycle • Contribute to the development of program-level technical documentation, white papers, and briefings for internal and external stakeholders

• Serve as the senior technical authority for space system architecture within the Special Programs organization, providing vision and direction for mission-driven system concepts • Lead end-to-end architecture definition for advanced space-based sensing systems, from mission concept formulation through preliminary design, ensuring alignment with customer objectives and operational requirements • Drive system-level trade space exploration across competing architectures, evaluating performance, cost, schedule, and risk to inform program decisions at the highest levels • Develop and own the overarching system architecture baseline, including CONOPs, system-level requirements, interface definitions, and key performance parameters (KPPs) • Provide authoritative technical guidance on RF system design, sensing system performance, and space segment architecture to program teams and leadership • Lead and mentor a team of systems engineers, fostering technical excellence, rigorous engineering discipline, and a culture of innovation • Represent the program at senior-level technical reviews, customer engagements, and government forums; serve as the primary technical voice for architecture decisions • Identify and resolve complex, cross-cutting technical challenges that span multiple subsystems and program boundaries • Collaborate with business development and capture teams to shape new program opportunities, contribute to proposals, and define technical approaches for future missions • Maintain awareness of the broader national security space landscape, emerging threats, and evolving customer needs to inform long-range architecture strategy • Partner with government customers and mission partners to translate high-level operational needs into technically sound and executable system architectures

• Design multi-layer PCBs for complex digital, mixed-signal and high power systems including FPGAs, Microcontrollers • Develop PCB layouts for Digital/Analog/RF circuits with careful attention to impedance control, loss tangent, and electromagnetic compatibility • Perform signal integrity analysis for high-speed digital interfaces (PCIe, DDR, Ethernet) • Conduct power integrity analysis and design power distribution networks (PDN) for low-noise, high-current applications • Create component libraries, design rule checks (DRCs), and maintain design standards • Collaborate with electrical engineers on component selection, schematic review, and design optimization • Generate fabrication and assembly documentation including Gerber files, drill files, and assembly drawings • Work with PCB fabricators and CM vendors to ensure manufacturability and resolve fabrication issues • Support board bring-up activities, debugging hardware issues related to PCB design • Design for space environment considerations including thermal management, radiation tolerance, and mechanical stress