Principal Space Vehicle Autonomy Architect

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We must preserve all substantive info: The role is part of In-Space Systems business unit, focus on space infrastructure and increasing mobility on-orbit. Provide leadership across organizations, working end-to-end across vehicle, sensor/payload, and ground elements to create autonomous space systems solutions. Principal Space Vehicle Autonomy Architect responsible for formulating on-orbit autonomy strategies for Blue National Security, including Blue Ring and constellation product lines. Primary participant in trade studies and proposal development for national security customers, civil government agencies, and commercial entities pursuing advanced on-orbit operations. Interface with defense and civil-space stakeholders on autonomy-related topics, including coordination of capability roadmaps, development of mission-level requirements, and oversight of implementation and test activities. Provide subject matter expertise in fleet-level autonomous operations, rendezvous and proximity operations (RPO), and other critical autonomy needs during algorithm development and flight operations. Looking for someone to apply technical expertise, leadership skills, commitment to quality to positively impact future of space. Passion for mission and vision required. Successful candidates will have strong technical background, be detail driven, excellent problem-solving abilities. Should be passionate about delivering extensible, timely solutions while contributing to development of high-performance teams through meticulous goal-setting, disciplined attention to performance metrics, and continuous process improvement. If excited by providing near-term value, solving novel problems, learning about interesting topics, completing challenging activities, please apply! Then Special Mentions: Preferred Location: Any Blue Origin location, including Los Angeles, CA; Denver, CO; Space Coast, FL; Reston, VA; Huntsville, AL, or Kent, WA (Seattle area) offices. Relocation: Relocation assistance is available for candidates relocating to one of the primary Blue Origin office locations. Travel: Up to 25% travel may be required depending on work location and program needs. Clearance: An active TS//SCI is strongly preferred though not required. We'll embed that in About the role paragraph. Now Responsibilities list: we need to capture each bullet after "✦ Responsibilities Include But Are Not Limited To". Let's list them: - Collaborate with customers, stakeholders, systems engineering, architecture, hardware, and software teams to ensure cross-functional autonomy deliverables are identified and tracked - Author proposal documents targeting national security customers, civil government agencies, and commercial entities pursuing advanced on-orbit autonomous operations - Coordinate with Guidance, Navigation & Control (GNC), Astrodynamics and Trajectory Execution (ATX), Flight Software, Telecommunications, and Sensor/Payload teams to perform detailed trade studies for autonomous maneuver planning, RPO sequencing, and fleet-level coordination - Establish goals and metrics to identify opportunities to deliver autonomous system solutions to cost, performance, and schedule requirements - Assess fleet-level autonomy and RPO performance against current and future mission scenarios to align with company and customer needs, including coordinated observation, spectrum / beam management, network / mesh routing, and graceful degradation - Inform autonomy performance, risk, and operations for scheduled missions, including ConOps development, ground systems feasibility, and human-machine teaming frameworks - Lead the development of on-orbit autonomy architectures — including autonomous rendezvous, proximity operations, and multi-spacecraft coordination — encompassing requirements definition, trade studies, and roadmap planning - Lead the definition & development of full lifecycle autonomy including initialization, service orbit attainment, predictive health & degradation monitoring, over-the-air software updates, and end-of-life / deorbit - Create high-level verification and testing processes and procedures that ensure compliance to requirements. - Mentor and train across the program to ensure autonomy approach, philosophy, and technology are understood and implemented to provide required capabilities and value to customers - Support autonomous operations during live mission activities, including real-time monitoring of autonomous maneuver execution, anomaly response, and fleet state management We'll put each as
  • . Now Requirements (Minimum Qualifications) list: - 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 autonomous systems - 10+ years of technical experience in the space autonomy domain, including on-orbit autonomous operations, relative navigation, orbital mechanics, and multi-spacecraft coordination - Strong background developing space autonomy CONOPs, requirements, and interface description documents to flow to element-level teams - Demonstrated experience with fleet-level autonomy and/or rendezvous and proximity operations (RPO) throughout the mission design lifecycle, from conceptualization through operational flight - Applied experience in autonomy and mission design tools such as MATLAB/Simulink, STK, FreeFlyer, GMAT, or equivalent - 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 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 - Must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum. Now Qualifications (Preferred Qualifications) list: - Ph.D. in Aerospace, Software, Electrical, Mechanical, Physics, Systems Engineering, or related technical subject area - 15+ years of proven experience focused on mission design and autonomous space systems - Multiple spacecraft missions of operational autonomous flight support and/or leadership - Applied expertise in relative navigation algorithms, including sensor fusion, optical/LIDAR-based proximity sensing, and state estimation for RPO applications - Experience with autonomous mission planning and execution frameworks for multi-spacecraft or constellation operations - Familiarity with national security space mission requirements, including Space Domain Awareness (SDA), on-orbit servicing, and responsive space operations - Experience with AI/ML-based decision-making frameworks applied to on-orbit autonomy or fleet management - Experience designing, analyzing, or operating autonomous systems in cislunar, GEO, or other high-energy orbital environments - Active TS//SCI security clearance Now Benefits list: - 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 - Stock Options for all regular employees (working at least 20 hours/week) - Paid Time Off: Up to four (4) weeks per year based on weekly scheduled hours, and up to 14 company-paid holidays - (Optional) Bonuses etc but we can include mention: "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." Might be considered substantive; we can include as a paragraph. But we need to keep Benefits as list; we can include the bonus eligibility as a

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