Mission Design and Ground Navigation Engineer

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At Blue Origin we envision millions of people living and working in space for the benefit of Earth. Were 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!

As part of a hardworking team of engineers you will join our Mission Design and Ground Navigation team within the Mission Operations System IPT. You will share in the teams impact on all aspects of the trajectory for spacecraft from Earth to the Moon!

Expect to be a technical contributor to the Blue Moon program within the Lunar Permanence business unit. You will develop reference trajectories perform ground navigation analysis and support integrated vehicle trade studies. Additionally you will perform dispersed trajectory analysis and develop off-nominal concept of operations.

You will be responsible for exemplifying best practices balanced technical judgment and superior work ethic in a time-constrained environment.

We are looking for someone to apply their technical expertise leadership skills and commitment to quality to positively impact safe human spaceflight. Passion for our mission and vision is required!

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Design Earth-to-Moon trajectories
• Design Rendezvous Proximity Operations and Docking trajectories
• Analyze dispersed trajectories and delta-v budgets
• Support ground-based navigation and orbit determination analysis
• Conduct analyses and trades to validate mission requirements
• Develop flight dynamics operational software
• Present results and support gated reviews

Minimum Qualifications:

• B.S. in Mechanical Engineering Aerospace Engineering Electrical Engineering or related fields
• 5 years of proven experience focused on trajectory analysis flight dynamics or mission design
• Strong fundamentals in orbital mechanics and astrodynamics
• Applied experience in the mission design lifecycle from conceptualization through operational flight
• Understanding of ground-based navigation and statistical orbit determination
• Significant applied experience in one or more mission design and trajectory optimization tools such as Monte Copernicus EMTG STK/ODTK FreeFlyer or GMAT
• Applied experience in one or more of the following languages: Julia Python C Rust or MATLAB
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Preferred Qualifications:

• M.S. in Mechanical Engineering Aerospace Engineering Electrical Engineering or related fields
• 7 years of proven experience focused ontrajectory analysis flight dynamics or mission design
• Demonstrated expertise in the ground-based navigation and statistical orbit determination processes
• Demonstrated expertise in trajectory optimization
• Experience analyzing Near Rectilinear Halo Orbit
• Experience using the Monte software package
• Experience performing spacecraft operations (e.g. navigation support maneuver planning or real0time anomaly resolution)
• Experience with DevOps processes including configuration control continuous development and deployment workflows Agile methodologies and software code review.
• Experience with software development tooling such as Jira git Jenkins Docker Visual Studio or VSCode

Compensation Range for:

Other site ranges may differ

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Benefits

• Benefits include: Medical dental vision basic and supplemental life insurance paid parental leave short and long-term disability 401(k) with a company match of up to 5% and an Education Support Program.

• Paid Time Off: Up to four (4) weeks per year based on weekly scheduled hours and up to 14 company-paid holidays.

• Dependent on role type and job level employees may be eligible for benefits and bonuses based on the companys intent to reward individual contributions and enable them to share in the companys results or other factors at the companys sole discretion. Bonus amounts and eligibility are not guaranteed and subject to change and cancellation. Please check with your recruiter for more details.

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