Senior Deep-Space Mission Operations Lead

Blue Origin; Reston (VA); On-site; USD 157,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision

401(k) with company match

Education Support Program

Stock options

Paid time off

Relocation assistance

Job summary

Blue Origin in Reston, VA (or Denver, CO) seeks a Senior Mission Operations Engineer to lead deep space missions from concept through closeout. You will head small teams, coordinate with ground stations, and deliver end-to-end operations products for missions to Mars and beyond.

You will work on one-way light-time planning, onboard command sequencing, and telemetry post-processing while maintaining customer relationships and continually improving operational efficiency. This role requires U.S.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of spacecraft operations development and execution with on-console leadership as flight director or similar.
• Experience managing scope, schedule, and budget for missions or major deliverables with external customers.
• Experience operating a spacecraft beyond Earth orbit, including interplanetary cruise, planetary orbit insertion, or sustained operations at destination.
• Ability to plan and execute operations with one-way light time and post-facto telemetry assessment.
• Proven ability to develop operations products, procedures, and telemetry displays, with data management experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead the mission from contract award through closeout, owning operations scope, schedule, budget, risk, reporting, and customer relationships.
• Own the operations concept across phases: launch, departure, cruise, insertion, relay, and service.
• Develop and validate operations procedures, executable scripts, displays, and documentation using diverse simulators.
• Coordinate with ground segment teams for station integration, data links, and tracking interfaces.
• Provide real-time leadership during launch and early orbit phases from mission control facilities.
• Mentor early career engineers and drive lessons-learned across future missions.

Skills

Mission operations leadership

Technical team management

Deep space operations

Customer engagement

Education

B.S. in Aerospace or related field

Tools

Python

SPELL

STOL

JAS

Job description

Blue Origin in Reston, VA (or Denver, CO) seeks a Senior Mission Operations Engineer to lead deep space missions from concept through closeout. You will head small teams, coordinate with ground stations, and deliver end-to-end operations products for missions to Mars and beyond.

You will work on one-way light-time planning, onboard command sequencing, and telemetry post-processing while maintaining customer relationships and continually improving operational efficiency. This role requires U.S.