Space Sector – System Engineer

Duties

We are looking to reinforce our engineering teams with a Space Systems Engineer who will work on satellite projects amongst scientific, space situational awareness and earth observation missions.

The candidate will have to show his abilities on :

• Spacecraft system engineering during implementation phases (ideally across different platforms)
• Concrete experience and awareness across system study, technology development, design development, qualification and acceptance
• Coordination of spacecraft engineering activities including identifying the needed analyses, development and test activities for the agreed risk control
• Technical requirements elicitation, scrutiny, allocation including trade-offs
• Coordination across engineering and test departments, including test specifications and report approvals
• Technical spacecraft resource and performance budget management (including underlying analyses)
• Spacecraft design and engagement in space/ground system trade-offs
• Space ground, platform payload and internal platform interface control and decision-making
• Review and approve discipline-oriented or supplier/subcontractor delivered inputs
• Support preparation and execution of internal and customer technical and project reviews

Must have

• 3 years experience in the fields mentioned above
• Working experience on several satellite or payload design fields as Mechanical, Thermal , AOCS, Avionics,…
• Excellent detailed technical communication skills in both directions to/from satellite and system engineering team across all disciplines
• Excellent technical and programmatic communication skills in both directions to/from customer representatives, and internal project management, procurement, project financial control, assembly integration & test departments
• Able to simplify and explain as appropriate to the audience with good and synthetic overviews
• capacity to synthesis information & take decisions
• Ability to autonomously conduct satellite design trade-off and draft preliminary concepts
• Proficient in collaborative working methods both physically and with remote teams working with Windows/MS environments, and familiar with industry standard toolings such as commercial PLM/PDM, and Matlab/Python (or any similar language)
• Familiarity with UML, SysML or other system modelling languages may be an advantage
• Interest in Hardware and AIT activities is an asset
• Fluent in English, any other language is an asset

Joining Aerospacelab

• Build your own career path
• Impact on the growth trajectory of the company
• Fast-paced environment, no BS*
• Flexible ways of working
• Salary package consistent with your experience
• Young & dynamic team