Lunar Ground Communications Engineer - Level III

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Applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis until the requisition is closed.

At Blue Origin, we envision millions of people living and working in space for the benefit of Earth. We’re working to develop reusable, safe, and low-cost space vehicles and systems within a culture of safety, collaboration, and inclusion. Join our team of problem solvers as we add new chapters to the history of spaceflight!

This role is part of the Lunar Permanence business unit, which develops Blue Origin’s Blue Moon landers and related products. To further Blue Origin's mission of millions of people living and working in space for the benefit of Earth, we are building sustainable infrastructure for our transport of crew and cargo from Earth to the lunar surface.

As a Ground Communications Engineer, you will work with a small, hardworking, and accomplished team of Ground Infrastructure, Mission Systems, and Communication Engineers, designing and performing flight and operations development tasks throughout the full system lifecycle. You will share in the team’s impact on all aspects of the mission operations concept, mission analysis and planning, flight planning, ground data systems, and tools used to operate sophisticated spaceflight vehicles.

You will enjoy a fast-paced dynamic environment, supplying innovative solutions, while demonstrating technical competence, and attention to detail. This position will directly impact the history of space exploration and will require your dedicated commitment and detailed attention towards safe and reliable spaceflight.

We are looking for someone to apply their technical expertise, leadership skills, and dedication to quality to positively impact safe human spaceflight. Passion for our mission and vision is required!

• Integrate ground station and relay providers into a mission operations environment
• Ensure checkout of critical communication ground systems components supporting real-time telemetry data, commands, and video
• Support the definition of the ground data system and communications architecture, and design that enable highly effective and labor-efficient real-time spacecraft and ground system operation, systems performance assessment and inter-team communication and coordination
• Support integration of various ground system software and hardware components pertaining to space-ground communications including modems, front end processors, cryptography units and ground station interfaces.
• Support the operations team by creating operations products (procedures, documentation etc.) for the commanding and monitoring for both nominal and contingency situations
• Support the vehicle engineering team by aligning radio development with ground station capabilities/requirements and coordinating radio testing and verification.
• Collaborate with the training team to plan training simulations and other training activities
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams, including engineers representing flight vehicle systems, ground software, flight control operators and customers
• Perform trade studies to determine the architecture and capabilities of ground systems to best meet mission operations requirements, cost and schedule.
• Coordinate with ground infrastructure/software and mission system engineers to plan, develop, and lead system verification and qualification, to ensure that ground data system products meet system requirements and safety-critical standards.
• Support console as part of the mission operations team for the Lunar vehicles.

• B.S. or higher degree in computer engineering, electrical engineering, computer science, mathematics, physics, aerospace engineering, or related field or equivalent experience
• 5+ years of relevant space related space mission-oriented ground systems development experience
• Expertise in ground station or relay satellite service integration
• Expertise in spacecraft telemetry and commanding
• Understanding of space to ground RF communications
• Understanding of the principles and methods of engineering sophisticated systems
• Experience in engineering over the full lifecycle of development, including system design and…