Senior Space Systems Engineer: Lead Cross-Discip Design

Holt Executive Ltd; Vlaams-Brabant; On-site; EUR 70,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Holt Executive Ltd is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer to drive the system baseline for a European space technology programme, spanning mechanical, electronics, software and control disciplines. You will shape requirements, budgets and interfaces, ensuring ECSS standards and customer qualification requirements are met.

You will mentor junior engineers and coordinate with project management, product assurance and production to deliver robust designs across multiple programmes.

Qualifications

• Experience in systems engineering within space or highly regulated environments.
• Knowledge of spacecraft systems, requirements management and verification.
• Familiarity with ECSS standards and customer qualification processes.
• Ability to mentor junior engineers and guide a broader team.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical baseline, including system requirements, mass, power and thermal budgets; manage trade-offs and verification.
• Maintain full requirement-to-verification traceability and manage system interfaces/ICDs.
• Lead system-level design across mechanical, electronics, software and control disciplines.
• Make technical decisions when disciplines have conflicting requirements.
• Collaborate with PM and Product Assurance to meet programme, cost and quality objectives.
• Coordinate with industrialisation/production to ensure designs are manufacturable.

Skills

ECSS standards

Requirements Mgmt

Systems integration

Trade-off analysis

Technical ownership

Job description

Holt Executive Ltd is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer to drive the system baseline for a European space technology programme, spanning mechanical, electronics, software and control disciplines. You will shape requirements, budgets and interfaces, ensuring ECSS standards and customer qualification requirements are met.

You will mentor junior engineers and coordinate with project management, product assurance and production to deliver robust designs across multiple programmes.