Engineer III – Lunar Mission Analyst

BLUE ORIGIN • West Melbourne, WA

2d • $110,938 - $169,432

About The Position

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. 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. 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 and collaboration. Join our team of problem solvers as we add new chapters to the history of spaceflight! We are looking for someone to apply their technical expertise, leadership skills, and commitment to quality to positively impact safe human spaceflight. Passion for our mission and vision is required! In this role you will conduct mission-level analysis for propellant, communication, power, thermal, and other consumables across our Lunar vehicles and architecture. This requires establishing margining policies for each consumable, defining the performance across both Blue and NASA vehicles to achieve favorable margins and evaluating designs against those performance limits. You will generate and run mission analysis models, provide guidance on optimizing vehicle design, mission Concept of Operations and control logic, quantitatively evaluate alternative trade studies and provide recommendations and work with a cross functional team to ensure mission success. You will support regular mission analysis cycles and reporting for Blue’s Design Analysis Cycles (DACs) and NASA’s Human Landing System (HLS) Analysis Cycles (HACs).

Requirements

• Minimum of BS degree in Mechanical or Aerospace Engineering or related field
• Minimum of five years of relevant experience is required
• Strong understanding of mission modeling and analysis with relevant experience preferably in aerospace industry
• Work closely with other cross functional team as needed (e.g., systems engineers to develop and verify requirements, Design team to support sizing and trade studies, procurement to choose the best supplier)

Nice To Haves

• Successful candidates typically have relevant proven experience in design and analysis of aerospace systems
• Advanced graduate degrees (Masters or PhD)
• Proficiency in one or more programming languages (e.g. MATLAB, Python, C/C++, FORTRAN)
• Experience with software tools such as Jama, Cameo, MATLAB/Simulink, Confluence, JIRA, Git, Creo, and Windchill

Responsibilities

• Own the delivery and quality of mission analysis products and reports
• Build mission analysis models in a variety of tools
• Predict mission performance across all mission phases
• Perform model checks to ensure the accuracy and quality of results
• Perform trade studies and optimizations of mission design solutions and collaborate with external teams on the trade offs
• Document mission analysis results and present at internal review boards, program gated reviews, and NASA customer reviews
• Maintain and enforce model version control process to ensure proper review and consistent model use for generating thermal predictions
• Maintain a simplified mission model to perform analysis trade studies requiring quick turnaround times.
• Ensure consistency between detailed and simplified models
• Perform model validation by correlating to test data
• Leveraging Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools to improve mission analysis processes

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%, and an 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.
• Dependent on role type and job level, employees may be eligible for benefits and bonuses based on the company's intent to reward individual contributions and enable them to share in the company's results, or other factors at the company's sole discretion.
• Bonus amounts and eligibility are not guaranteed and subject to change and cancellation.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level