AI/GenAI Principal Technologist

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
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.
Desired:
Experience taking a leading role in building so