Blue Origin
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How Blue Origin hires
Truth index
B 78/100
Median time to fill
29 days
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
89%
Reposted roles
0%
Blue Origin scores B on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 306 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 89% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 29 days. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed
Overview
Blue Origin is an American aerospace company founded quietly by Jeff Bezos in 2000, and funded for two decades largely out of his own fortune rather than external investment. It flies the suborbital New Shepard vehicle for space tourism and research payloads, and developed the heavy-lift New Glenn rocket alongside the BE-4 engine, which also powers United Launch Alliance's Vulcan. Headquartered in Kent, Washington, the company is building the Blue Moon lunar lander under a NASA Artemis contract and has moved from a deliberately slow development culture toward far more aggressive schedules under chief executive Dave Limp.
Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Blue Origin over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
330
Postings analysed
986
Stack modernity
79/100AI adopter
Languages
Python42%
C++24%
MATLAB23%
SQL9%
Frameworks & libraries
React.js3%
UVM2%
Angular1%
TensorFlow1%
Databases
Amazon Redshift1%
PostgreSQL1%
MySQL1%
DynamoDB<1%
Cloud & platforms
Windows12%
AWS12%
Linux11%
GitLab5%
AI & ML
LLM3%
Claude1%
ChatGPT<1%
BERT<1%
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Full Blue Origin tech stack
330 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks
Salary insights
Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$187k
Typical range
$56k – $466k
Open positions
906
898
Jobs
Intern
2.4%
Junior
4%
Middle
40.3%
Senior
37%
Staff
7.1%
Principal
6.2%
Architect
2.9%
| Level | Jobs | Median | Typical range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Intern | 22 | $114k | $56k – $157k |
| Junior | 36 | $126k | $90k – $189k |
| Middle | 362 | $169k | $90k – $290k |
| Senior | 332 | $220k | $123k – $381k |
| Staff | 64 | $202k | $98k – $377k |
| Principal | 56 | $272k | $204k – $466k |
| Architect | 26 | $277k | $225k – $382k |
Highest paying role
Principal Engineer – TeraWave RF and Optical Systems
$466k
Normalized to USD per year
All salaries at Blue Origin
By role, level and city, against the market · 906 jobs with pay
Products
Orbital Reef
Orbital Reef is the commercial space station Blue Origin is developing with Sierra Space. It is intended as one of the successors to the International Space Station.
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Moon
Blue Moon is the lunar lander family being built under a NASA Artemis contract. It covers both cargo delivery and crewed descent variants.
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BE-4
The BE-4 is the methane-fuelled engine powering New Glenn and United Launch Alliance's Vulcan rocket. Selling engines to a competitor is an unusual position in the launch market.
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New Glenn
New Glenn is the heavy-lift orbital rocket with a reusable first stage, designed to carry large payloads and constellation satellites. It is the centrepiece of the company's commercial ambitions.
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New Shepard
New Shepard is the reusable suborbital vehicle flying crewed tourism missions and research payloads past the Karman line. It was the company's first operational rocket.
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People
Jeff Bezos
Founder
Jeff Bezos founded Blue Origin in 2000 and funded it for two decades largely by selling Amazon stock. He set its long-term goal of moving heavy industry off Earth.
Dave Limp
Chief Executive Officer
Dave Limp became chief executive of Blue Origin in 2023 and accelerated its development pace. He previously ran Amazon's devices and services organisation.
Bob Smith
former Chief Executive Officer
Bob Smith led Blue Origin from 2017 to 2023, through the first crewed New Shepard flights and the New Glenn development programme. He came from Honeywell Aerospace.
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Growth
Hiring Momentum
78/100
Scaling fast
Open positions
1583
370 opened / 179 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
31 days
faster than 40% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~11 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics
+100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Industrial Engineering
36%
Hardware
12%
Operations
12% ▲
Field & Service
10%
Backend
5%
Early Careers
4%
Actively hiring for Industrial Engineering (+143 in 30 days)
Activity Timeline
Added Kyverno to stack
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Added containerd to stack
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New location: Arlington
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New location: Arlington
Oct 2026
Added OpenAI Codex to stack
Oct 2026
Added NATS to stack
Oct 2026
Added Windows Server to stack
Oct 2026
Added Figma to stack
Oct 2026
Added PHP to stack
Oct 2026
Added Ruby on Rails to stack
Oct 2026
Added Laravel to stack
Oct 2026
Added Bootstrap to stack
Oct 2026
Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
28
Hiring now
28
Countries
4
Busiest office
Kent
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Kent
United States
HQ
WA - Centerpoint (Clarke East)
5 open roles 6 posted in 90 days 10-50 est. staff $148k Avg Salary
hires for Field & Service, HR, Industrial Engineering
Seattle
United States
Plant / site
AL - MSFC (Marshall Space Flight Center)
939 open roles 985 posted in 90 days 34% engineering 2% remote 1000-5000 est. staff $194k Avg Salary
hires for Industrial Engineering, Hardware, Backend
Huntsville
United States
Plant / site
AL - MSFC (Marshall Space Flight Center)
383 open roles 396 posted in 90 days 18% engineering 1% remote 1000-5000 est. staff $179k Avg Salary
hires for Industrial Engineering, Operations, Field & Service
Denver
United States
Plant / site
AL - Jemison Building
277 open roles 313 posted in 90 days 38% engineering 1000-5000 est. staff $186k Avg Salary
hires for Industrial Engineering, Hardware, Early Careers
Los Angeles
United States
Plant / site
CA - Altadena (Honeybee Robotics)
172 open roles 186 posted in 90 days 39% engineering 1% remote 500-1000 est. staff $191k Avg Salary
hires for Industrial Engineering, Hardware, Backend
Cupertino
United States
Plant / site
CA - Cupertino
70 open roles 84 posted in 90 days 63% engineering 19% remote 200-500 est. staff $266k Avg Salary
hires for Hardware, Industrial Engineering, Backend
Reston
United States
Plant / site
VA - Reston
70 open roles 81 posted in 90 days 36% engineering 200-500 est. staff $192k Avg Salary
hires for Industrial Engineering, Backend, Hardware
Longmont
United States
Plant / site
CO - Longmont
60 open roles 58 posted in 90 days 23% engineering 5% remote 50-200 est. staff $164k Avg Salary
hires for Industrial Engineering, Hardware, Field & Service
Littleton
United States
Regional office
CO - Littleton
44 open roles 49 posted in 90 days 57% engineering 50-200 est. staff $212k Avg Salary
hires for Hardware, Industrial Engineering, Backend
Van Horn
United States
Plant / site
TX - Launch Site One
28 open roles 23 posted in 90 days 25% engineering 50-200 est. staff $142k Avg Salary
hires for Field & Service, QA, Industrial Engineering
Arlington
United States
Plant / site
25 open roles 25 posted in 90 days 12% engineering 50-200 est. staff $140k Avg Salary
hires for Industrial Engineering, Early Careers, Sales
San Diego
United States
Engineering / R&D
WA - O'Neill Building
23 open roles 23 posted in 90 days 65% engineering 70% remote 50-200 est. staff $318k Avg Salary
hires for Hardware, Industrial Engineering, Backend
Phoenix
United States
Plant / site
CO - Littleton
16 open roles 20 posted in 90 days 50% engineering 50-200 est. staff $192k Avg Salary
hires for Hardware, Industrial Engineering
Melbourne
United States
Plant / site
FL - Melbourne (Fortune Place)
16 open roles 15 posted in 90 days 50-200 est. staff
hires for Operations, Field & Service, Industrial Engineering
Titusville
United States
Plant / site
FL - Titusville (Grissom)
13 open roles 14 posted in 90 days 50-200 est. staff
hires for Industrial Engineering, Operations, Field & Service
Renton
United States
Plant / site
WA - Southgate (2001)
7 open roles 8 posted in 90 days 14% engineering 10-50 est. staff $189k Avg Salary
hires for Industrial Engineering, Backend
Cocoa
United States
Plant / site
FL - Cocoa (Cidco)
7 open roles 7 posted in 90 days 10-50 est. staff
hires for Customer Success, Product, Management
El Segundo
United States
Regional office
CA - El Segundo
6 open roles 7 posted in 90 days 50% engineering 10-50 est. staff $224k Avg Salary
hires for Backend, Networking, Legal
Arlington
United States
Plant / site
WA - Arlington Casting
6 open roles 6 posted in 90 days 10-50 est. staff $179k Avg Salary
hires for Operations, Field & Service, Industrial Engineering
Grandview
United States
Plant / site
MO - Blue Batteries
5 open roles 5 posted in 90 days 20% engineering 10-50 est. staff
hires for Field & Service, QA, Management
Melbourne
Australia
Plant / site
FL - Melbourne (Fortune Place)
5 open roles 3 posted in 90 days 10-50 est. staff $147k Avg Salary
hires for Industrial Engineering, Legal, Field & Service
Orlando
United States
Plant / site
FL - Orlando (Venture Park)
4 open roles 5 posted in 90 days 10-50 est. staff
hires for Operations
Redmond
United States
Regional office
WA - Redmond
3 open roles 4 posted in 90 days 67% engineering 10-50 est. staff $323k Avg Salary
hires for Hardware, Product, Science & Research
Arlington
United States
VA - Arlington
2 open roles 4 posted in 90 days 10-50 est. staff $169k Avg Salary
hires for Public Policy
Kraków
Poland
POL - Poland
2 open roles 3 posted in 90 days 50% engineering 1-10 est. staff
hires for Hardware, Industrial Engineering
Luxembourg City
Luxembourg
LUX - Luxembourg
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 1-10 est. staff
hires for Operations
Houston
United States
TX - Houston
1 open roles 1-10 est. staff
hires for Industrial Engineering
Lancaster
United States
CA - AFRL (Edwards Air Force Base)
1 open roles 1-10 est. staff
hires for Field & Service
Earlier presence
Park, United States
Jobs
$231k – $323k per year • Equity • In office • Full-Time • 10+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Redmond
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$198k – $277k per year • Equity • In office • Full-Time • 7+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Seattle
Python
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TypeScript
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AWS
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$135k – $189k per year • Equity • In office • Full-Time • 2+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Seattle
C++
RTOS
CI/CD
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≈ $77k – $152k per year (Estimated) • Equity • In office • Full-Time • 3+ years exp • PhD • Seattle
Python
SQL
PowerShell
Puppet
Ansible
Chef
Configuration Management
GitLab
Linux
Windows
DNS
DHCP
Cybersecurity
Active Directory
Management
Confluence
ServiceNow
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$165k – $231k per year • Equity • In office • Full-Time • 3+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Cupertino • Seattle
Python
AI Agents
Multi-Agent Systems
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$198k – $277k per year • Equity • In office • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Cupertino • Seattle
Python
RabbitMQ
Apache Kafka
AI/ML
AI Agents
Agentic Workflows
Multi-Agent Systems
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$198k – $277k per year • Equity • In office • Full-Time • 7+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Seattle • Huntsville
JavaScript
Java
Rust
TypeScript
C++
GraphQL
Angular
DevOps
Rest API
GCP
Azure
AWS
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Amazon ECS
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$183k – $256k per year • Equity • In office • Full-Time • 20+ years exp • PhD • Seattle
Cadence Allegro
OrCAD
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$198k – $277k per year • Equity • In office • Full-Time • 7+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Seattle
Python
JavaScript
Java
TypeScript
Angular
DevOps
GCP
Azure
AWS
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$165k – $231k per year • Equity • In office • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Seattle
Python
Verilog
SQL
C++
VHDL
TensorFlow C++
PyTorch C++
AI/ML
LangChain
Scikit-learn
TensorFlow
PyTorch
DevOps
GitLab
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$249k – $348k per year • Equity • In office • Full-Time • 7+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Seattle • Cupertino
Python
Go
Java
C++
Bash
Maven
Gradle
C++
CMake
DevOps
Terraform
Ansible
Helm
Podman
Azure
CI/CD
AWS
Docker
Kubernetes
Bazel
Linux
Cybersecurity
SBOM
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$230k – $323k per year • Equity • Remote (United States) • Full-Time • 7+ years exp • PhD • San Diego • Cupertino
Python
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Financials
Total raised
$10B
Latest round
Venture - Series Unknown
Funding rounds
1
Funding rounds
| Round | Announced | Amount | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2026 | $10B | Details |