Senior Payload Operations Engineer – On Orbit

Blue Origin LLC; United States; On-site; USD 131,000 - 183,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision

Stock options

Paid time off

Job summary

Blue Origin LLC is seeking a Payload Operations Engineer for Blue Ring to ensure mission readiness and develop hosted and separable payload concepts in collaboration with space/ground teams.

The role emphasizes real-time operations, procedures, and operational readiness, with on-console shifts and close coordination with customers and government teams in a dynamic test and deployment environment.

Qualifications

• B.S. in Aerospace Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Systems Engineering, or related field.
• 5+ years of experience in spacecraft operations development or execution.
• Active TS/SCI clearance.
• Experience developing spacecraft or hosted payload operations products.
• Experience supporting external customers or government teams.
• Ability to support on-console activities including shift work.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the development of hosted and separable payload mission plans, operations concepts, tools, and processes that enable highly effective real-time operations.
• Develop and implement detailed spacecraft payload operations procedures, executables, telemetry displays, and other technical documentation.
• Conduct testing and validation of payload operations products using a variety of hardware and software simulation environments.
• Support mission planning efforts with geographically separated payload teams to ensure operational objectives are met during on-orbit operations.
• Support the development of the overall spacecraft concept of operations, ensuring payload operability and efficiency.
• Create detailed test procedures alongside systems engineering teams to validate end-to-end ground to payload system capabilities.
• Support mission readiness activities including mission rehearsals, timeline development, and post-launch test planning.
• Monitor payload state-of-health, perform trending and analysis on performance data, and track system configurations throughout on-orbit execution.
• Serve as liaison between payload customers and Blue Ring operations team during pre-launch coordination as well as during long-term operations.
• Support development of payload operations sequencing and incorporation into the mission planning system.

Skills

On-console operations

Customer-focused ops

Education

B.S. in Aerospace Engineering

MS in Space Systems

Tools

Python

SPELL

STOL

JAS

Ground Software

Job description

Blue Origin LLC is seeking a Payload Operations Engineer for Blue Ring to ensure mission readiness and develop hosted and separable payload concepts in collaboration with space/ground teams.

The role emphasizes real-time operations, procedures, and operational readiness, with on-console shifts and close coordination with customers and government teams in a dynamic test and deployment environment.