Sophia joined Blue Origin on April 1st, 2019 as a BE-4 engine Test Operations Engineer in Van Horn, TX before transitioning to BE-4 Propulsion Test Manager in 2021. Recently, she moved to Seattle and joined the BE-3U engine team as a Customer Engineer supporting engine coordination efforts with launch vehicles.

In 2018 Sophia graduated from Johns Hopkins University with dual degrees in Physics and Applied Mathematics.  She received the 2018 Brooke Owens Fellowship with summer internship placement on the Sales, Marketing, and Customer Experience team at Blue. She has previously interned at NASA HQ in the ISS Division, at SpaceX with Crew and Mission Management, and at the Space Telescope Science Institute performing Hubble instrumentation research.