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Live, first seen by us 30 days agoBase Pay Range for: WA applicants is $230,773.00 - $323,081.85 Other site ranges may differRead the full posting
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Applicants for employment at Blue Origin must be a US citizen or national, US permanent resident (i.e
Own the architecture and roadmap for the agentic AI, retrieval and reasoning platform
Write production code and build reference implementations across the full stack
Design shared capabilities exposed through documented APIs and MCPs for reuse
Mentor senior and mid-level engineers and maintain standards and reference implementations
Own the architecture and roadmap for Blue Origin's agentic AI, retrieval, and semantic reasoning platform.
Stay hands-on across the full stack - write production code, build reference implementations, and prove out the hard parts yourself rather than delegating and reviewing.
Design shared capabilities for reuse - exposed through documented APIs and MCPs - so other teams and products adopt them
Mentor senior / mid-level engineers and steward the standards, ADRs, and reference implementations that raise the whole team's bar.
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Day 30
Similar jobs usually come down between day 4 and day 77.
At Blueorigin, jobs usually come down by about day 60.
From 51 similar postings that came down, and 61 of Blueorigin’s. Coming down is not always a hire.
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- Built and operated an enterprise data platform - a lakehouse or distributed architecture (Spark, Delta Lake, or equivalent), with a metadata-driven ingestion framework - including schema evolution, pipeline reliability, and workload cost. - Full-stack depth: production Python, REST/GraphQL API design, and AWS with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or CDK) and mature CI/CD. - Passion for Blue Origin’s mission and ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
- Design shared capabilities for reuse - exposed through documented APIs and MCPs - so other teams and products adopt them instead of rebuilding data and AI foundations. - Set architecture direction across the platform portfolio (ingestion, knowledge graph, enterprise search, natural-language-to-SQL, multi-modal evidence), establishing reusable patterns and CI/CD, IaC, and release standards. - Mentor senior / mid-level engineers and steward the standards, ADRs, and reference implementations that raise the whole team's bar.
- Enterprise search (Sinequa, OpenSearch) - Natural-language-to-SQL - AI observability, inference cost and latency optimization
4. Preferred - Lakehouse platforms (Databricks, Spark, Delta Lake, Unity Catalog) - Knowledge graphs (Neo4j, Neptune)
- Delivered production LLM, RAG, or agentic AI systems end to end - ingestion, retrieval, reranking, prompt and context design, serving. - Built and operated an enterprise data platform - a lakehouse or distributed architecture (Spark, Delta Lake, or equivalent), with a metadata-driven ingestion framework - including schema evolution, pipeline reliability, and workload cost. - Full-stack depth: production Python, REST/GraphQL API design, and AWS with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or CDK) and mature CI/CD.
- Lakehouse platforms (Databricks, Spark, Delta Lake, Unity Catalog) - Knowledge graphs (Neo4j, Neptune) - Enterprise search (Sinequa, OpenSearch)
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We file this job under AI Engineer, by the work the posting describes.
AI engineers build products on top of AI models that already exist, most often large language models: they connect a model to a company's data and tools and ship the assistants, agents and search features people use.
Postings ask for strong Python or TypeScript, experience with model APIs, retrieval and agent frameworks, and ways to test whether the model's answers are good enough.
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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 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.1. Role Summary
We are looking for a Principal Software Engineer to set the technical direction for how Blue Origin finds, reasons over, and acts on its enterprise knowledge. As a senior individual contributor, you'll own the architecture of our agentic AI platform - the lakehouse, knowledge graph, retrieval systems, and natural-language interfaces that help engineering, manufacturing, and mission teams find critical data in seconds, not days.
You'll lead through technical credibility, not reporting authority - staying hands-on, writing production code, and proving out the hard parts yourself. Your impact is enterprise-wide. Your work reaches engineers designing engines, technicians building vehicles, quality teams investigating anomalies, and mission teams in flight, and is increasingly reused by other products through shared APIs and MCPs.
2. Responsibilities
Own the architecture and roadmap for Blue Origin's agentic AI, retrieval, and semantic reasoning platform.
Stay hands-on across the full stack - write production code, build reference implementations, and prove out the hard parts yourself rather than delegating and reviewing.
Design shared capabilities for reuse - exposed through documented APIs and MCPs - so other teams and products adopt them instead of rebuilding data and AI foundations.
Set architecture direction across the platform portfolio (ingestion, knowledge graph, enterprise search, natural-language-to-SQL, multi-modal evidence), establishing reusable patterns and CI/CD, IaC, and release standards.
Mentor senior / mid-level engineers and steward the standards, ADRs, and reference implementations that raise the whole team's bar.
Establish AI evaluation and observability as engineering disciplines: regression suites, accuracy thresholds, and release gates, plus tracing and metrics (latency, cost, hallucination rate, relevance) on every production surface.
Make AI output defensible - set the standard that answers trace to source-grounded evidence with provenance, access control, and confidence, and drive retrieval and generation quality through offline and online evaluation.
3. Must-Haves
10+ years building production software, with 7+ years of cross-team architecture ownership or technical leadership.
Delivered production LLM, RAG, or agentic AI systems end to end - ingestion, retrieval, reranking, prompt and context design, serving.
Built and operated an enterprise data platform - a lakehouse or distributed architecture (Spark, Delta Lake, or equivalent), with a metadata-driven ingestion framework - including schema evolution, pipeline reliability, and workload cost.
Full-stack depth: production Python, REST/GraphQL API design, and AWS with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or CDK) and mature CI/CD.
Passion for Blue Origin’s mission and ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
4. Preferred
Lakehouse platforms (Databricks, Spark, Delta Lake, Unity Catalog)
Knowledge graphs (Neo4j, Neptune)
Enterprise search (Sinequa, OpenSearch)
Natural-language-to-SQL
AI observability, inference cost and latency optimization
Multi-modal AI over documents, imagery, or telemetry
Graduate degree or published open-source work in applied AI
Base Pay Range for:
WA applicants is $230,773.00 - $323,081.85Other site ranges may differ
Culture 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 an 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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Applicants for employment at Blue Origin must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (i.e. current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum.
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Blue Origin is proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer and is committed to attracting, retaining, and developing a highly qualified 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. 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, sex, 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 “Know Your Rights,” please see here.
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Base Pay Range for: WA applicants is $230,773.00 - $323,081.85 Other site ranges may differ
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Export Control Regulations Applicants for employment at Blue Origin must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (i.e. current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum. Background Check