✨ About The Role
- The role involves working on Blue Ring mission applications throughout the entire mission lifecycle, from initial proposal stages to live operations.
- Responsibilities include designing and analyzing missions that utilize Blue Ring's hybrid delta-v capabilities for various orbital destinations.
- The analyst will run internally-developed mission design and navigation analysis tools and collaborate with the development team to enhance these tools.
- Maintaining awareness of overall system engineering and assisting in the development of mission architecture is a key responsibility.
- Effective communication of work and results to government sponsors is expected.
- The position is part of a small, specialized team focused on delivering space mobility capabilities to the government.
- Travel is expected up to 20% of the time, and relocation to Seattle is required.
⚡ Requirements
- A bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related field is required.
- Candidates should have at least 5 years of proven experience in trajectory analysis, flight dynamics, or mission design.
- Strong fundamentals in orbital mechanics and astrodynamics are essential for success in this role.
- Proficiency in using mission design and trajectory optimization tools such as Monte, Copernicus, or STK/ODTK is necessary.
- Experience with programming languages such as Julia, Python, C++, or MATLAB for writing analysis scripts is preferred.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills are crucial for effective collaboration with government sponsors.
- The ability to earn trust and maintain positive professional relationships is important in contributing to a culture of inclusion.
- Candidates must be able to acquire or renew a Top Secret (TS) / Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) security clearance.