Guidance, Navigation & Control Engineer I - Early Career & New Graduate Rotation

Blue Origin Early Career Pathways

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!

We are collaborators, doers, and problem-solvers who are relentlessly committed to a culture of safety. This position will directly impact the history of space exploration and will require your commitment 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.

Early Career Pathways: We offer two pathways for full-time employment (please indicate your preference in your application):

• Direct Hire: Multiple positions available across our Business Units. You will be matched with an appropriate engineering team based on your skillset and experience and our current business needs.
• New Graduate Rotation Program: This one-year development program enables you to expand your engineering skillset through a variety of hands-on experience and mentorship. Throughout your three four-month rotations, you'll explore a variety of fields supporting our business units: New Shepard, New Glenn, Blue Engines, Lunar Permanence, In-Space Systems, Advanced Concepts and Enterprise Engineering, and Operations. Upon completing this uniquely personalized program, you'll collaborate with the Program Manager to determine the best team fit for your ongoing career.

Primary locations: We prioritize placing early career engineers in locations where they can be co-located with their team and the relevant hardware they support. The primary locations for this role are listed below. Please indicate in the application where you would be willing to be located.

• Kent, WA
• Denver, CO
• Reston, VA

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Design, analyze, develop and verify guidance, navigation, and control (GN&C) software for spaceflight systems.
• Build on our existing human-rated GN&C software to improve reliability, enable capabilities, and reduce operating cost.
• Perform system analyses, including simulations and Monte-Carlo, to satisfy specifications and requirements and to drive system-level architectural decisions.
• Specific duties are subject to our business unit objectives.

Qualifications: Minimum of a B.S. degree in physics, aerospace engineering, computer engineering, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering or other relevant engineering field. Will have earned their degree within the last year and able to start by Fall 2026. Demonstrated knowledge in designing and testing control systems for aerospace vehicles or mechanical and fluidic subsystems. Fundamental understanding of dynamics, orbital mechanics, estimation, and control theory. Practical experience in guidance, navigation, and controls algorithm development and analysis for aerospace or mobile robotic applications. Strong software and model development skills, particularly in MATLAB/Simulink, and C/C++. Relevant internship/co-op and/or hands-on experience that demonstrate development of both technical