Aerospace Medicine Specialist
Core
Provide expert guidance on astronaut health and medical engineering to support vehicle design, operational procedures, and clinical standards for commercial spaceflight missions.
Role type
Senior IC Aerospace Medicine Specialist / Biomedical Engineer
Builds
Health and medical standards, operational products (e.g., emergency response procedures), and clinical care protocols for astronauts and flight crews.
Domain
Aerospace medicine, biomedical engineering, human spaceflight, and extreme environment health.
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis | research | client delivery | infrastructure | physical/clinical work
Required skills
Aerospace medicine expertise, biomedical engineering, human spaceflight risk analysis, medical countermeasure development, clinical standards of care, flight control operations, behavioral health support, system requirements writing, emergency response planning.
Preferred skills
NASA/DoD/commercial spaceflight experience, certified flight controller status, human spaceflight medical standards development, extreme environment medicine expertise.
Technologies
Life support systems, hyper/hypobaric environments, prehospital and remote medicine tools.
Responsibilities
Support Chief Medical Officer and engineering teams in vehicle design and risk assessments; develop and represent health/medical standards in internal and public forums; identify human spaceflight risks and develop mitigations; develop and test countermeasures for crew health; certify as a flight controller; support crew launch and recovery operations.
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC with strategic influence
