Civil and Interplanetary Navigation Architect
BLUE ORIGIN
full-time
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Location Type: Office
Location: Los Angeles • California • Colorado • United States
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Salary
💰 $145,188 - $203,263 per year
About the role
- Collaborate with customers, stakeholders, systems engineering, architecture, hardware, and software teams to ensure cross-functional deliverables are identified and tracked
- Authorship of proposal documents targeting civil government customers as well as private entities pursuing Earth and interplanetary science missions
- Coordinate with Astrodynamics and Trajectory Execution (ATX) to perform detailed trade studies for capture analysis as well as interplanetary trajectory execution
- Establish goals and metrics to identify opportunities to deliver customer solutions to cost, performance, and schedule requirements
- Assess interplanetary navigation and radiometric orbit determination performance against current and future mission scenarios to align with company needs
- Inform interplanetary navigation performance, risk, and operations for scheduled missions, including ConOps development and ground systems feasibility
- Lead the development of cislunar and Mars-centric position, navigation, and timing (PNT) constellation architectures, including requirements definition, trade studies, and roadmap planning
- Mentor and train across the program to ensure approach, philosophy, and technology are understood and implemented so they provide required capabilities and value to our customers
- Support the navigation process during live mission operations, performing orbital estimation, maneuver planning, and maneuver execution
Requirements
- B.S. in Aerospace, Software, Electrical, Mechanical, Physics, Systems Engineering, or related technical subject area
- 10+ years of technical experience developing space mission design and navigation systems
- 10+ years of technical experience in the space navigation domain, including satellite navigation, statistical orbit determination, orbital mechanics, astrodynamics, and trajectory optimization
- Strong background developing space navigation CONOPs, requirements, and interface description documents to flow to element level teams
- Demonstrated experience throughout mission design lifecycle from conceptualization through operational flight
- Applied experience in navigation tools such as Monte, STK/ODTK, FreeFlyer, or GMAT
- Experience developing high-level plans for end-to-end integrated system tests occurring throughout a program's lifecycle
- Outstanding customer relationship skills including the ability to discover the requirements underlying feature requests, recommend alternative technical and business approaches, and lead engineering efforts to meet ambitious timelines with optimal solutions
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision, basic and supplemental life insurance
- Paid parental leave
- Short and long-term disability
- 401(k) with a company match of up to 5%
- Education Support Program
- Paid Time Off: Up to four (4) weeks per year based on weekly scheduled hours, and up to 14 company-paid holidays.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
space mission designnavigation systemssatellite navigationstatistical orbit determinationorbital mechanicsastrodynamicstrajectory optimizationnavigation CONOPsrequirements definitionorbital estimation
Soft Skills
customer relationship skillscommunication skillsmentoringcollaborationleadershipproblem-solvingplanningrisk assessmenttrainingstakeholder engagement