Senior Spaceflight Mission Operations Lead

Blue Origin; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 156,802 - 219,522; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision

Stock options

Paid time off

Education Support Program

Job summary

Blue Origin in Washington state is seeking a Senior Mission Operations Engineer to lead on-orbit operations development and real-time support. You will mentor teams, develop operations products, and coordinate with engineers across space and ground segments to deliver safe, reliable missions.

The role emphasizes systems thinking, end-to-end operations, and a strong customer focus, with opportunities to shape the mission operations capability from the ground up.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience managing technical teams.
• 12+ years of proven experience in spacecraft operations development and execution, including real-time support for on-orbit operations in a flight director or comparable leadership role.
• Extensive development of spacecraft operations products, including procedures, telemetry displays, scripts, and other technical documents.
• Experienced in configuration and product data management.

Responsibilities

• Develop mission plans, operations concepts, tools, and processes that enable highly effective and labor-efficient real-time spacecraft and ground system operation through automation.
• Lead small teams in the development and implementation of detailed operations procedures, executables, telemetry displays, technical documentation, and other products.
• Ensure deliverables meet applicable quality standards, while promoting maximum reuse and backward compatibility.
• Conduct testing and validation of ops products using a variety of hardware and software simulation environments.
• Support systems engineering and other disciplines in developing a spacecraft concept of operations, ensuring efficiency and operability for the end-user.
• Implement meaningful progress tracking to provide realistic completion forecasts and inform basis-of-estimates provided for new business pursuits.
• Create detailed test procedures to validate end-to-end system capabilities.
• Analyze and assess ground station selection for optimal communications availability.

Skills

Team management

Spacecraft operations

Operations product development

Configuration management

Education

B.S. in Aerospace, Electrical, Computer Science, Systems, or related fields.

Tools

Python

SPELL

STOL

JAS

Job description

Blue Origin in Washington state is seeking a Senior Mission Operations Engineer to lead on-orbit operations development and real-time support. You will mentor teams, develop operations products, and coordinate with engineers across space and ground segments to deliver safe, reliable missions.

The role emphasizes systems thinking, end-to-end operations, and a strong customer focus, with opportunities to shape the mission operations capability from the ground up.