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Blue Origin · 2 weeks ago

Senior Manager Embedded Software (Rocket Engines)

Greater Seattle Area

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$191K/yr - $268K/yr

8+ years exp

Blue Origin is a company focused on developing reusable, safe, and low-cost space vehicles and systems. The Senior Manager Embedded Software will lead an engineering team to ensure the successful delivery of all engine avionics software products, manage project execution, and foster a positive team culture.

AerospaceManufacturingNational SecurityRenewable Energy

No H1B

U.S. Citizen Only

Responsibilities

Manage your project scope by ensuring scrappy and cost-effective execution while maintaining a tight grip on the project deliverables needed to meet program objectives

Establish common software architecture and manage product roadmaps for each program’s software product

Identify and manage technical and programmatic risks/opportunities. This includes technical, scope (i.e., cost and schedule), asset and safety risks and opportunities specific to program and project execution. Risk management includes identifying, documenting, communicating, developing mitigation plans and collaborating with your peers & program leaders to drive outcomes to program acceptable levels

Coordinate and partner with Enterprise functions such as Software Quality Assurance, Safety and Mission Assurance, and Enterprise Technology to drive product development/maintenance cost/cycle time and meet delivery objectives

Track and manage your team execution, and both unit product life cycle cost

Create the framework used to develop and drive collection of project data and use this data to inform & monitor key project metrics

Partner with other Business Units and centralized Blue software teams on driving software and software process, tool commonality and efficiency

Develop and oversee the technical plan, ensuring it aligns to both negotiated customer requirements and internal design criteria

Own the overall lifecycle of all avionics software products from development through qualification/rate production and successful cost-optimized commercial flight operations

Manage interdisciplinary engineering tasks for overall system success

Ensure the quality of engineering outputs, providing technical direction and guidance to the team

Support requirement decomposition and allocation, systems engineering, technical design, analysis, and verification/validation – including strong management and bi-directional alignment of interfaces between customers and project technical efforts

Oversee the full lifecycle of your employees including talent acquisition, employee development, and when needed, performance management

Foster an environment of continuous growth and learning, ensuring compliance with HR processes and policies

Qualification

Embedded software developmentAvionics experienceProject managementTechnical leadershipRisk managementSoftware architectureAgile methodologiesContinuous improvementCommunication skillsTeam management

Required

Proven track record of leading and managing teams to deliver complex safety critical embedded software products

Minimum of a B.S. degree in Engineering or technical field, or in lieu of a technical degree, must show significant demonstrated experience leading teams designing/ developing complex engineered products

8+ years of experience in a relevant engineering field, with significant experience in avionics and/or embedded software product development and maintenance

3+ years of project management and/or management experience

Basic knowledge across relevant engineering disciplines, including requirements negotiation, design, development, analysis, verification, and vehicle integration

Strong communication skills, with the ability to effectively communicate across all levels of the organization