Senior Space Operations Trainer – TS/SCI

Blue Origin; Denver (CO); On-site; USD 144,000 - 202,000; Full time

Job summary

Blue Origin is seeking a Senior Training Engineer to lead end-to-end Blue Ring training programs for astronauts and mission operators. You will design curricula, write and run simulation scenarios, supervise integrated exercises, and certify operators ahead of launch.

Expect collaboration across flight software, GNC, and ground systems while maintaining training records and certification flows. The role requires hands-on simulator experience, strong facilitation, and the ability to travel up to

Qualifications

• Active TS/SCI Security Clearance.
• B.S. in Engineering, Physical Science, Education, or related fields, or equivalent military training and experience.
• 8+ years of experience operating spacecraft or training spacecraft operators, including at least 4 years designing, delivering, and evaluating training for satellite operations crews.
• Hands-on experience running operator training in a simulator or on a live system, including building scenarios, injecting failures, and evaluating crew response.
• Experience writing training course materials (lesson objectives and plans, evaluation criteria, hands-on training activities).
• Experience evaluating and certifying operators against a written standard.
• Working knowledge of spacecraft subsystems (GNC, power, propulsion, thermal, command and data handling, communications) and the ground segment, deep enough to write a credible failure scenario and judge the crew's response to it.
• Strong facilitation and communication skills to lead technical training and debriefs.
• Ability to travel up to 20% of the time to support training events, rehearsals, and working sessions.
• Ability to support varied workday hours. Training may be required off hours or in shifts to accommodate time zones and work schedules.
• Ability to work collaboratively in a fast-paced, dynamic work environment.
• Ability to earn trust, build positive professional relationships, contribute to a culture of inclusion, and collaborate with individuals of diverse backgrounds to achieve mission success.
• Must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum.

Responsibilities

• Own one or more Blue Ring training areas end to end, such as a console position's certification flow, the anomaly response curriculum, or a mission's rehearsal campaign, from task analysis through final evaluation.
• Build training with a systematic instructional design process (ADDIE or equivalent), covering job and task analysis, learning objectives, lesson plans, evaluation criteria, and the hands-on events that tie them together.
• Write and run the simulation scenarios that get a team ready to fly, including nominal timelines, subsystem failures, ground segment outages, and compound anomalies that force real decisions on console.
• Serve as simulation supervisor and lead instructor for integrated exercises and mission rehearsals, then run the debrief and turn the findings into training updates and procedure change requests.
• Evaluate operator proficiency and currency through written, practical, and on-console evaluations. Recommend certification and decertification, and build remedial and contingency training when an operator falls short.
• Define and maintain certification flows and training records in our training management system, and report team readiness to mission leadership ahead of mission readiness reviews.
• Define requirements for training simulators and other training assets (software simulators, hardware-in-the-loop and software-in-the-loop test beds, malfunction injection, scenario scripting), and work with the simulation and ground software teams to get them built and validated.
• Work with flight software, GNC, power, propulsion, communications, ground systems, and payload engineers to keep training content technically correct as the vehicle and the ops products change.
• Train the wider mission team as needed, including integration and test, engineering support, launch services, and payload customers. Mentor junior training engineers and set the standards for lesson quality and evaluation consistency across the training team.
• Foster continuous improvement by tracking training effectiveness and feeding lessons-learned from rehearsals and on-orbit operations back into the curriculum.

Skills

Security clearance TS/SCI

Simulation-based training design

Training evaluation

Certification and qualification

Instructional design (ADDIE)

U.S. citizenship or eligible status

Collaborative leadership

Python scripting

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Physical Science, Education, or related fields

M.S. in Engineering, Instructional Systems Design, or related fields

Tools

Training Management Systems

Simulation software

Ground software tools

Job description

Blue Origin is seeking a Senior Training Engineer to lead end-to-end Blue Ring training programs for astronauts and mission operators. You will design curricula, write and run simulation scenarios, supervise integrated exercises, and certify operators ahead of launch.

Expect collaboration across flight software, GNC, and ground systems while maintaining training records and certification flows. The role requires hands-on simulator experience, strong facilitation, and the ability to travel up to