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Blue Origin · 3 weeks ago

Senior Mission Operations Engineer – Blue Ring (Top Secret Clearance Required)

Greater Seattle Area

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$152K/yr - $213K/yr

10+ years exp

Blue Origin is a company focused on developing reusable, safe, and low-cost space vehicles and systems. The Senior Mission Operations Engineer will ensure readiness for on-orbit operations, contribute to operational product development, and lead mission operations teams, while collaborating with various engineering disciplines.

AerospaceManufacturingNational SecurityRenewable Energy

No H1B

Security Clearance Required

U.S. Citizen Only

Responsibilities

Develop mission plans, operations concepts, tools, and processes that enable highly effective and labor-efficient real-time spacecraft and ground system operation

Lead small teams in the development and implementation of detailed operations procedures, executables, telemetry displays, technical documentation, and other products

Ensure deliverables meet applicable quality standards, while promoting maximum reuse and backward compatibility

Conduct testing and validation of ops products using a variety of hardware and software simulation environments that span the space and ground domains

Drive operations toward ever-increasing levels of efficiency and reliability through automation and the application of AI/ML technologies

Support systems engineering and other disciplines in developing a spacecraft concept of operations, ensuring efficiency and operability for the end-user

Implement meaningful progress tracking to provide realistic completion forecasts and inform basis-of-estimates provided for new business pursuits

Create detailed test procedures to validate end-to-end system capabilities

Analyze and assess ground station selection for optimal communications availability

Coordinate staffing for mission operations events and work with our training team to ensure certification of on-console personnel

Support mission readiness activities including mission rehearsals, mission timeline development, and post-launch test development

Provide real-time leadership during spacecraft launch and early orbit phase, including shift work, from Blue Origin’s mission control facilities in Florida and elsewhere

Monitor spacecraft state-of-health across all subsystems, perform trending and analyses, and track spacecraft and ground system configurations

Support the troubleshooting and resolution of on-orbit anomalies as part of an anomaly response team

Foster continuous improvement by contributing, tracking, and implementing lessons-learned for the benefit of future missions

Provide instruction and mentorship to early career engineers, building depth of expertise and capability within the mission operations engineering team

Qualification

Spacecraft operationsAutomationAI/MLMission planningTechnical team managementTelemetry displaysConfiguration managementCommand-Control scriptingOperational fault managementCommunicationCollaboration skillsMentorship

Required

Active TS/SCI Security Clearance

B.S. in Aerospace, Computer Science, Systems, or related fields

3+ years of experience managing technical teams

10+ years of proven experience in spacecraft operations development and execution, including real-time support for on-orbit operations in a flight director or comparable leadership role

Experience with development of spacecraft operations products, including procedures, telemetry displays, scripts, and other technical documents

Experience with configuration and product data management

Excellent verbal and written communications skills, including ability to make persuasive presentations to external customers at gated milestone reviews

Ability to earn trust, build positive professional relationships, and collaborate with individuals of various backgrounds to achieve mission success

Preferred

M.S. in Space Systems, Computer Science, or Aerospace Engineering

Direct support for a government spacecraft operations organization, as well as a deep understanding of their use cases and approach to operations

Experience with multi-manifest spacecraft missions and developing operations for hosted or separable payloads

Proficiency with command-and-control scripting languages, such as Python, SPELL, STOL, or JAS

Experience working with virtualized Ground Software (e.g., Command & Control, Mission Planning, Flight Dynamics, Electronic Procedures, Software Simulators)

Experience with mission planning and contact planning tools

Experience with scrum methodology and agile product development

Experience in full development lifecycle of space systems' ground segments

Mission analysis, flight planning and timeline development (tool and analysis)

Experience designing and evaluating operational readiness tests integrated with hardware-in-the-loop, and software-in-the-loop simulators

Experience with operational fault and anomaly management

Experience with performing system safety analyses including Functional Hazard Assessments (FHA), Failure Modes, Effects and Criticality Analyses (FMECA), and Fault Tree Analysis (FTA)