# Principal Software Engineer – Data & AI

Application close date: 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. RoleSummary We are looking for a Principal Software Engineerto set the technical direction for how Blue Origin finds, reasons over, and acts on its enterprise knowledge. As a senior individual contributor,you'llown the architecture of our agentic AI platform - thelakehouse, knowledge graph, retrieval systems, and natural-language interfaces that help engineering, manufacturin

- **Id**: 1107697
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/blue-origin-principal-software-engineer-data-ai>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Seattle, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 10
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: yes
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-09-21T00:00:00Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-09-21
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-09T21:59:47Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 50
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 8356
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Life insurance, Parental leave, Stock options
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Artificial Intelligence, Manufacturing, Aerospace Manufacturing, Ground Systems

## Company

- **Id**: 3698
- **Name**: Blue Origin
- **Domain**: blueorigin.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/blueorigin>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Workday

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 90
- **Open postings**: 247
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.385
- **Repost share**: 0.004
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 46
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 230773
- **Max**: 323081
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 323081

## Technologies

- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
- **Amazon Neptune** — Optional: no
- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **Databricks** — Optional: no
- **Delta Lake** — Optional: no
- **Hallucination** — Optional: no
- **Knowledge Graph** — Optional: no
- **LLM** — Optional: no
- **Multimodal AI** — Optional: no
- **Neo4j** — Optional: no
- **OpenSearch** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **RAG** — Optional: no
- **Reranking** — Optional: no
- **Rest API** — Optional: no
- **Spark** — Optional: no
- **SQL** — Optional: no
- **Terraform** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 50

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 10
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: yes

### Education

- **Level**: phd
- **Optional**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-22T07:13:30Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: Filed H-1B visas in the last two years; Filings 12m: 0

## Liveness

- **Score**: 37
- **Band**: fade
- **Label**: Fading
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.839
- **P room**: 0.44
- **Age days**: 49
- **Expected fill days**: 46
- **Reasons**: conf:0, velocity, win:tail, crowd:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 323081
- **Is top pay**: yes

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