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At Blue Origin, we envision millions of people living and working in space for the benefit of Earth. We're working to develop reusable, safe, and low-cost space vehicles and systems within a culture of safety, collaboration, and inclusion. Join our diverse team of problem solvers as we add new chapters to the history of spaceflight! This role is part of the Safety, Quality, and Mission Assurance team. This team is focused on monitoring and assessing processes that guide Blue Origin's design, manufacturing, and operations, ensuring system safety engineering, environmental health, and safety, product integrity, and continuous improvement processes. We are a team of collaborators, doers, and problem-solvers who are relentlessly committed to system safety. This position will directly impact the history of space exploration and will require your dedication and detailed attention towards safe and repeatable space flight. Join us in lowering the cost of access to space and enabling Blue Origin's vision of millions of people living and working in space to benefit Earth. As part of a hardworking team of diverse specialists, technicians, and engineers, you will lead the safety and mission assurance effort for space systems. You will share in the team's impact on all aspects of safety functions for the lunar transport program including design and certification, human-rating, operations, recovery, refurbishment, and re-flight. You will work and collaborate with senior managers in space systems across the company functional areas including engines to ensure safe and successful development, test, and operations. You will coordinate with the program to establish and refine risk thresholds and goals for safety and mission success. You will provide technical expertise to manufacturing and test activities to improve product safety, reliability, and quality. You will earn trust, maintain positive and professional relationships.We are looking for someone to apply their technical expertise, leadership skills, and dedication to quality to positively impact safe human spaceflight. Passion for our mission and vision is required! Responsibilities: Lead a matrixed team of system safety, reliability, product integrity, and mission assurance engineers to ensure safe and successful missions. Provide inputs to program planning to ensure safety and mission assurance objectives are adequately addressed. Coordinate with program to establish and refine risk thresholds and goals for safety and mission success. Provide SQMA disposition of risks to safety and mission success. Ensure safety and reliability analyses are thorough, correct, and any derived requirements/mitigations are verified. Participate as a non-advocate in gating engineering, production, test, and mission operations reviews at all technical levels. Provide technical expertise to manufacturing and test activities to improve product safety, reliability, and quality. Provide non-advocate support to corrective and preventive action processes. Provide independent review of failure and defect root cause analyses, and mishap investigations. Establish, track, and report key performance metrics to SQMA to support Lunar goals. Review and provide SQMA disposition of significant changes to, or shortfalls against, the human flight certification baseline. Qualifications: Passion for our mission: Millions of people living and working in space! B.S. degree in aerospace, mechanical, electrical, or equivalent engineering experience Proven experience in one or more of the following: Rocket engine and/or spacecraft development and operations Mission assurance analysis, products, and roles and responsibilities Technical leadership experience with growing organizations, driving workforce culture and process change, and leading through influence. Familiarity with system safety engineering, risk manage