Aerospace Medicine Specialist

About the role

This role is part of Advanced Concepts and Enterprise Engineering (ACE), supporting Blue Origin’s mission of millions of people living and working in space for the benefit of Earth. The team fosters innovation and drives engineering workflows of the future, shared solutions and standards, simplicity and lower costs, and manufacturable design.

Responsibilities

• Support Blue Origin's Chief Medical Officer and engineering teams in the development of health, medical, and human performance vehicle design, ConOps deliverables, and risk assessments; advance company strategies and goals; and collaborate to deliver on company-wide requirements.
• Identify and respond to company needs; engage across programs to ensure health and medical expertise meaningfully influences vehicle design, operations, and organizational strategy.
• Develop, implement, and represent Blue Origin health and medical standards and strategy in internal forums, cross-company engagements, public forums, and with key external partners to strengthen and build relationships.
• Own and develop technical data and deliverables/products (e.g., health- and medically-related requirements and ConOps documents).
• Identify human spaceflight risks associated with vehicle and operational concept development; develop mitigations and strategies to prevent or minimize those risks.
• Develop, test, and deliver countermeasures that may affect crew health, safety, and/or performance during or after spaceflight missions.
• Identify and evaluate medical risks and requirements associated with low Earth orbit, microgravity, hypogravity (e.g., lunar surface), and deep space exploration operations.
• Develop clinical standards of care defining direct care protocols for commercial astronauts and client flight crews before, during, and after missions.
• Certify as a flight controller and serve as a subject matter expert in support of Mission and Flight Operations.
• Serve as a subject matter expert in support of crew launch and recovery operations.

Qualifications

• Path 1 – Aerospace Medicine Physician (Preferred): Doctor of Medicine (M.D.) or Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine (D.O.) from an accredited institution, active and unrestricted state medical license (relevant medical board complaints subject to review), and Aerospace Medicine Board Certification or board-eligible status.
• Path 2 – Senior Biomedical Engineer (Human Spaceflight Experience): Bachelor's degree or higher in engineering (e.g. Biomedical, Aerospace, Mechanical) or a closely related field, experience supporting human spaceflight programs (e.g., NASA, DoD, commercial spaceflight), and demonstrated technical expertise in health- or medical-related engineering within spaceflight or operationally relevant extreme environment contexts.

Desired

• For physicians: Active and unencumbered medical license to practice in Washington, Florida, Texas, or Alabama, advanced operational experience with NASA, DoD, or commercial human spaceflight programs, experience as a certified flight controller or in an equivalent Mission Operations capacity, prior experience developing or contributing to human spaceflight medical standards, policies, or regulatory frameworks.

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.
• Stock Options for all regular employees (working at least 20 hours/week).