About the position
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 Enterprise Technology (ET), where we're developing the digital infrastructure needed to build the road to space, with an emphasis on digital capabilities required to advance Blue Origin's mission. Enterprise Technology is the center of excellence for digital technology at Blue Origin, providing oversight and governance to align technology and business strategies. Blue Origin is seeking a highly skilled and motivated Sr. Manager of Software Engineering to join our world-class engineering team in Washington, USA. In this role, you will play a pivotal role in advancing the history of space exploration, contributing to safe and repeatable space flight. As part of our team, you will have the opportunity to collaborate with a diverse group of specialists, technicians, and engineers to develop and provide leading edge generative AI solutions to everyone at Blue Origin. We are looking for someone to apply their technical expertise, leadership skills, and commitment to quality to positively impact safe human spaceflight. Passion for our mission and vision is required!
Responsibilities
- Lead and manage the enterprise GenAI engineering team in successfully implementing advanced technologies in Blue Origin systems
- Hire and staff the software engineering team to execute against the enterprise GenAI goals and product roadmap
- Develop and provide core infrastructure for enterprise GenAI including large language models, retrieval augmented generation, agentic frameworks, fine tuning, multi-modal ingestion, vectorization, and other generative AI architectural components and techniques
- Develop leading edge solutions with a focus on enterprise level tools
- Partner with customers to identify needs and create innovative solutions, working in concert with the product manager to develop and execute against a GenAI product roadmap and capability set
- Collaborate with external partners like OpenAI, Anthropic, AWS, Google, and other LLM and AI service providers to integrate and securely enable market leading GenAI capabilities at Blue Origin
- Provide technical expertise and leadership to ensure safe and efficient operations
- Report directly to Vice President Enterprise Technology and contribute to the overall strategy and objectives of the AI and Emerging Technologies engineering department
- Own and optimize production and enterprise AI systems, ensuring exceptional performance and reliability, and instrumenting for performance, cost, and quality
- Work directly with product managers and senior leaders on the roadmap, products, and capabilities to drive an Enterprise level scope
- Grow and mentor dedicated individuals and future leaders
Requirements
- Master's or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Physics, Statistics or other STEM degree
- 8+ Years of Software and systems engineering in fast paced environments
- 2+ Years in building products that use or incorporate Large Language Models
- 2+ Years experience developing solutions with AWS Bedrock and Azure OpenAI
- Ability to support a driven a dynamic environment with high accountability and ownership
- Ability to earn trust, maintain positive and professional relationships, and contribute to a culture of inclusion
- 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
- Paid Time Off: Up to four (4) weeks per year based on weekly scheduled hours, and up to 14 company-paid holidays
- Discretionary bonus designed to reward individual contributions as well as allow employees to share in company results
