Senior NDT Engineer, Automated Inspection (Embedded, Advanced Manufacturing)

Application close date: Applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis until the requisition is closed. 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 team of problem solvers as we add new chapters to the history of spaceflight! This role is part of Blue Origin Operations, which is comprised of Integrated Supply Chain, Test Operations, Safety, Quality, and Mission Assurance. This includes Manufacturing and Supply Chain support across all Blue Origin facilities. 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 team of problem solvers as we add new chapters to the history of spaceflight! This role is part of Blue Origin Operations, which is comprised of Integrated Supply Chain, Test Operations, Safety, Quality, and Mission Assurance. This includes Manufacturing and Supply Chain support across all Blue Origin facilities. You will be the embedded NDT engineer on the Advanced Manufacturing team, a hands-on group of engineers, technicians, and fabricators that develops new joining, materials, and automation processes for rocket hardware. You will make sure every process the team develops can be inspected, and you will architect the automated eddy current and ultrasonic systems that inspect it at rate. You will own NDT requirements, instrumentation, and interfaces for each system and carry it through verification, qualification, and hand-off to production. You will partner closely with Blue Origin’s NDT Level III and Quality organizations, bringing their requirements into the team and representing the team’s systems for procedure approval and production acceptance. We are looking for someone to apply their technical expertise, leadership skills, and dedication to quality to positively impact the development of rocket hardware and safe human spaceflight. Passion for our mission and vision is required! Responsibilities: Serve as the team’s NDT focal from concept through production hand-off. Be the first point of contact for NDT questions, and decide when specialist or enterprise NDT support is needed. Partner with the responsible Level III and Quality. Bring enterprise NDT requirements, procedures, and lessons learned into the team, and represent the team’s systems for procedure approval, qualification, and production acceptance. Design inspectability into new processes and parts. Characterize the defect types that new joining and manufacturing processes produce, select methods that detect them, and define the NDT content of process qualification plans, including correlation with destructive test and in-process data. Own requirements for automated NDT systems. Gather stakeholder needs and derive performance requirements: coverage, sensitivity and resolution, probability of detection, positional accuracy, standoff and normality, scan speed, throughput, and availability. Flow these requirements to instrumentation, end-effectors, motion, and data systems, and to suppliers through specifications and statements of work. Maintain verification traceability and the requirements baseline. Own the technical architecture of automated eddy current and ultrasonic (including phased array and through-transmission) systems. Lead trade studies on method, manipulator, coupling, commercial versus custom instrumentation, and in-house versus integrator delivery. Define and control interfaces between NDT instrumentation, end-effectors and fixtures, motion control, and data systems through interface control documents. Act as the team’s technical lead on ultrasonic and eddy current physics, within the Level III’s p…

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