AI/GenAI Principal Technologist

Overview

On Site
USD 200,857.50 - 281,200.50 per year
Full Time

Skills

Collaboration
Robotic process automation
Art
Computer hardware
Amazon Web Services
Big data
Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Investments
Analytics
IMPACT
SAFE
IT management
FOCUS
Workflow
Internet
Design
Operations
Scalability
Software engineering
Artificial intelligence
Machine Learning (ML)
Research
Aerospace
Manufacturing
Large Language Models (LLMs)
Testing
Continuous Integration and Development
Continuous integration
Software deployment
Continuous monitoring
Writing
Python
JavaScript
Linux
Docker
Kubernetes
API
Communication
Customer experience
Attention to detail
Leadership

Job Details

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!

We are a diverse team of 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.

The Blue Origin GenAI & Smart Factory org is driving manufacturing automation, RPA, machine learning, and implementation of useful tools and software to drive efficiency throughout the company.

We are constantly innovating in the ways we are automating and accelerating the delivery of products using state of the art software and hardware technologies. We use the latest AWS technologies, big data approaches, and ML/AI to build distributed, highly available systems to achieve our goals.

Our team is looking for top-notch AI/GenAI Principal Technologist who love listening to our customers, working as a team, and helping craft our technology investments with our partners.. Our mission is to innovate and build scalable and robust software and analytics solutions. Your solutions and Strategies will directly impact the delivery of Blue Origin's products.

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!

What you'll do?
  • Provide strong technical leadership, with focus on build systems, and continuous testing
  • Invent new tools that enable more work force multiplication and autonomous agent execution.
  • Work closely with Blue Origin teams to learn their development workflows, and challenges while independently driving solutions that are specific to business specific needs and requirements
  • Contribute to the design, implementation, and deployment of successful internet-scale systems and services in support of our manufacturing, design and flight operations and the businesses they support.
  • Create the definition of secure, scalable, and low latency services and efficient physical processes.
  • Work with multifunctional teams delivering on demanding projects.
  • Functionally decompose sophisticated problems into simple, straightforward solutions.
  • Understand system interdependencies and limitations.
  • Share knowledge in performance, scalability, enterprise system and architecture.


Qualifications:
  • 15+ years of professional experience in software engineering, AI development, and creating commercial grade.
  • 7 years of recent active and credible AI/ML research in industry, preferably in aerospace manufacturing.
  • 2+ years in Large Language Model (LLM)implementation and usage,
  • Deep understanding of testing, continuous integration, build, deployment & continuous monitoring.
  • Expertise writing software in languages like Python, and Javascript
  • Expertise with Linux, Docker, Kubernetes, API development
  • Experience with scaling and performance of large systems
  • Outstanding interpersonal and communication skills
  • Obsession with quality and customer experience attention to detail coupled with ability to think abstractly
  • Ability to earn trust, maintain positive and professional relationships, and contribute to a culture of inclusion


Desired:
  • Experience taking a leading role in building sophisticated software systems that have been successfully delivered to customers..
  • Some experience in system engineering practices formal or informal
  • Experience mentoring junior software engineers and data scientists to improve their skills, and make them more effective, product software engineers.
  • Experience with tailored and off the shelf manufacturing and engineering solutions and generating hybrid solutions
  • Full stack experience ranging from frontend user interfaces through to backend systems and all points in between.
  • Deep experience in understanding and creating AI & ML models, with experience in AWS Rekognition, Bedrock, Kendra, Data Bricks, GPT-4, Claude, and open source LLM's.


Compensation Range for:
CA applicants is $200,857.50-$281,200.50;WA applicants is $200,857.50-$281,200.50

Other site ranges may differ

Applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis until the requisition is closed.

Inclusivity Statement

Don't meet all desired requirements? Studies have shown that some people are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single desired qualification. At Blue Origin, we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace, so if you're excited about this role but your past experience doesn't align perfectly with every desired qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

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Benefits

Benefits include: 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%, and an 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: Bonuses are designed to reward individual contributions as well as allow employees to share in company results.

Eligibility for benefits varies by role type, please check with your recruiter for a comprehensive list of the benefits available for this role.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Blue Origin is proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer and is committed to attracting, retaining, and developing a highly qualified, diverse, and dedicated work force. Blue Origin hires and promotes people on the basis of their qualifications, performance, and abilities. We support the establishment and maintenance of a workplace that fosters trust, equality, and teamwork, in which all employees recognize and appreciate the diversity of individual team members. We provide all qualified applicants for employment and employees with equal opportunities for hire, promotion, and other terms and conditions of employment, regardless of their race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin/ethnicity, age, physical or mental disability, genetic factors, military/veteran status, or any other status or characteristic protected by federal, state, and/or local law. Blue Origin will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable federal, state, and local laws, including the Washington Fair Chance Act, the California Fair Chance Act, the Los Angeles Fair Chance in Hiring Ordinance, and other applicable laws. For more information on "EEO Is the Law," please see here .

Affirmative Action and Disability Accommodation

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