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Blue Origin, LLC Senior Ground System Lead Systems Engineer - Orbital Reef in Denver, Colorado
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 diverse team of problem solvers as we add new chapters to the history of spaceflight!
We are a diverse team of collaborators, doers, and problem-solvers who are relentlessly committed to a culture of safety. This position will directly impact the history of space exploration and will require your commitment and detailed attention towards safe and repeatable space flight. Join us in lowering the cost of access to space and enabling Blue Origin's vision of millions of people living and working in space to benefit Earth.
This position is part of the Space Systems Development (SSD) business unit. SSD develops next-generation concepts and systems to advance our future of living and working in space sustainably.
As part of a small, hardworking, and accomplished team, you will work closely with Orbital Reef subsystem teams as part of the Mission Systems and Flight Operations team, leading and performing flight and operations development tasks throughout the full system lifecycle. You will share in the team's impact on all aspects of the mission operations concept, mission analysis and planning, flight planning, ground data systems, and tools used to operate advanced spaceflight vehicles. You will be responsible for design, testing and implementation of the Orbital Reef Ground Communications System within the Blue Origin Mission Control Centers.
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! If you're excited by providing near-term value, solving novel problems, learning about interesting topics, and completing challenging activities, please apply!
Responsibilities:
Lead a team of system and test engineers to identify, derive, develop, maintain, and verify Mission Systems and Flight Operations requirements; including, traceability and verification and validation approach, necessary to implement a design that meets objectives: Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams, including engineers, representing flight vehicle systems, ground software, flight control operators and customers Define the operations concept, ground system and data communications architectures, and designs that enable highly effective and labor-efficient real-time spacecraft and ground system operation, systems performance assessment and inter-team communication and coordination Define and maintain ground system interface requirements and control documents, for example between Mission Control Centers Plan, perform and document requirement verification and validation in one or more Mission Systems and Flight Operations subdisciplines, including Astrodynamics, Flight Operations and Ground Data... For full info follow application link.
To conform to U.S. Government commercial space technology export regulations, including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR), 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), applicants for employment at Blue Origin must be a U.S. citizen or national, lawfully admitted for permanent residence into the U.S. (i.e. current green card holder), or lawfully admitted as a refugee or granted asylum under 8 U.S.C. 1157-1158. Learn more about the ITAR here.
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