Mission Systems Engineer: Deep Space Ground & Ops

Blue Origin LLC; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 130,706 - 182,988; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Paid parental leave

401(k) with company match

Stock options

Paid time off

14 company-paid holidays

Education Support Program

Job summary

Blue Origin LLC in Los Angeles is seeking a Mission Systems Engineer to lead requirements, verification, and interface definitions for the MTN ground and mission operations. You will collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to define architectures and plan validation activities.

You will work across flight vehicle, ground software, and payload customers, ensuring compliance with CCSDS and NASA standards in a fast-paced, inclusive environment.

Qualifications

• BS in Aerospace Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Physics, or a related technical field.
• 5+ years in ground systems architecture, spaceflight operations, requirements, verification, and validation.
• Experience implementing CCSDS communications protocols and standards.
• Experience across a complex system lifecycle: requirements, design, implementation, integration, verification, validation, qualification, and operations.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; able to collaborate in a fast-paced, inclusive environment.
• U.S. citizen or national, or permanent resident; ability to obtain security clearance as needed.
• Preferred: DOORS Next Generation, ICDs, NASA programs, AWS/Azure, Python, Confluence, JIRA.

Responsibilities

• Identify, derive, develop, and maintain mission systems requirements with traceability and V&V approach.
• Define and maintain ground element and external interface requirements and ICDs.
• Collaborate with flight vehicle, ground software, mission operations, and payload customers.
• Define ground system and mission operations architectures enabling real-time and store-and-forward operations.
• Plan and perform product update cycles, integration and test activities, and validation exercises.
• Conduct testing of ground system functionality and measure performance against requirements.
• Perform flight software to ground system integration and test.
• Analyze operability across space-ground system and improve as justified.
• Ensure mission system requirements align with NASA and CCSDS standards.

Skills

Ground systems architecture

Spacecraft operations

Requirements definition

Verification & validation

CCSDS standards

Python programming

Git version control

Confluence

JIRA

Education

B.S. in Aerospace Engineering

Tools

DOORS Next Generation

Interface Control Documents (ICDs)

CCSDS standards

Git

Confluence

JIRA

Job description

Blue Origin LLC in Los Angeles is seeking a Mission Systems Engineer to lead requirements, verification, and interface definitions for the MTN ground and mission operations. You will collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to define architectures and plan validation activities.

You will work across flight vehicle, ground software, and payload customers, ensuring compliance with CCSDS and NASA standards in a fast-paced, inclusive environment.