Spacecraft Systems Engineer

Spacecraft Systems Engineer

Join a small, innovative team in Luxembourg to design and build a debris-clearing spacecraft.

• Key responsibilities:
  • Create, validate, and manage functional requirements
  • Define a system development and verification plan
  • Develop mission profile and vehicle concepts
  • Establish and update design baselines
  • Maintain various technical (mass, power, link, etc.) budgets
  • Conduct system-level technical analyses
  • Coordinate with supporting expert engineers
  • Cost estimate and determine technical schedule
  • Technical liaising with partner organizations
  • Prepare key deliverable items and report to stakeholders
  • Nurture a new spacecraft capability in the team

Essential characteristics:

• Prior spacecraft early design experience
• Prior mission definition experience
• Operational knowledge of each other spacecraft design domains, including:
  • Structural & thermal
  • Propulsion
  • Attitude control
  • Power management
  • Data management & Communications
  • Ground infrastructure
• A positive, driven, collaborative, and autonomous attitude
• Experience in, or an enthusiasm to develop skill in, technical team management

Strongly valued characteristics:

• Prior spacecraft full-lifecycle experience
• Involvement in a previous spacecraft MAIT or LEOP campaign
• Skill with trajectory planning tools (STK/GMAT, etc.)
• Competence in concurrent design tools & methodologies
• Deeper knowledge of spacecraft attitude control theory, modeling, and implementation
• Deeper knowledge of monopropellant feed & propulsion systems
• Experience with rendezvous, proximity, and berthing operations
• Familiarity with the active debris removal problem & methods
• Familiarity with spacecraft testing, qualification, and launcher requirements
• Familiarity with relevant industry standards (GEVS, ECSS, etc.)

What we can offer in return:

• The chance to join and lead the development of a new spacecraft class right from the start, with a focused and well-defined objective.
• This mission would bring human benefits by supporting the sustainable use of space.
• You would take on a critical role in a new, revenue-generating company, with a mandate to focus on technical design and implementation on a fast-paced development schedule with an objective to fly within three years.
• The role has a large degree of engineering freedom, with minimized technical constraints.
• We give our team a flexible work environment that enables you to work in the way that suits you best.
• The position is in Luxembourg, a beautiful, cosmopolitan, and welcoming country at the heart of Europe.

If you are a highly motivated and experienced spacecraft systems engineer with a passion for making a difference in the world, we encourage you to apply!

Darwin Recruitment is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.