Principal Systems Architect – Remote Sensing Systems
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Principal Systems Architect leading advanced space system architecture for national security missions. Overseeing complex space-based sensing systems and mentoring technical teams within Blue Origin's national security sector.
Responsibilities:
- 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
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Systems Engineering, Physics, or a related technical discipline
- 12+ years of progressive experience in systems engineering or architecture within the aerospace, defense, or national security domain
- Demonstrated experience leading the architecture and design of complex space or airborne sensing systems from concept through CDR or beyond
- Experience architecting space-based RF sensing or surveillance systems, with a strong understanding of the full sensing chain from aperture to exploitation
- Deep familiarity with Ground Moving Target Indicator (GMTI) and/or Airborne Moving Target Indicator (AMTI) processing architectures and their system-level design implications
- Experience with UHF-band system design, including propagation characteristics, antenna aperture trades, and ionospheric effects
- Deep expertise in RF system performance analysis, including link budgets, radar system design fundamentals, and space segment performance modeling
- Proven track record of leading technical teams and driving architecture decisions in a matrixed, program-driven environment
- Experience engaging directly with DoD or Intelligence Community customers at a senior technical level
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with demonstrated ability to present complex technical concepts to both technical and executive audiences
- Active TS//SCI security clearance
- 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.
Benefits:
- Medical, dental, vision, basic and supplemental life insurance
- Paid parental leave
- Short and long-term disability
- 401(k) with a company match of up to 5%
- Education Support Program
- Stock Options for all regular employees (working at least 20 hours/week)
- Paid Time Off: Up to four (4) weeks per year based on weekly scheduled hours, and up to 14 company-paid holidays
- Employees may be eligible for benefits and bonuses based on the company's intent to reward individual contributions
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