Software Assurance Engineer - Satellites

Constellr GmbH; München; Vor Ort; EUR 90.000 - 120.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Constellr GmbH seeks a proactive, detail-driven specialist to join the Product & Quality Assurance team, focusing on Flight Software Product Assurance. You will ensure the quality, safety, and reliability of flight and ground software across our satellite constellation, collaborating across engineering, quality, and operations in a fast-paced space environment.

You will define and maintain our software quality standards, embed engineering discipline, and take end-to-end ownership to support

Qualifikationen

• Degree in engineering, computer science, physics, or related field.
• Proven experience in Flight Software Product Assurance within space.
• Strong understanding of software testing, verification, and validation in safety-critical environments.
• Experience with embedded flight software for satellites or spacecraft platforms.
• Strong proficiency in software configuration management tools and processes.
• Familiarity with ECSS standards (ECSS-Q-ST-80C; ECSS-E-ST-40C).
• Analytical thinking and risk/anomaly investigation experience.
• Ability to manage competing priorities and deadlines.
• Strong team mindset and ability to work across disciplines.
• Excellent written and spoken English communication.

Aufgaben

• Develop, implement, and improve a robust Software Product Assurance programme.
• Own PA across flight and ground software for the satellite constellation.
• Ensure software configuration management and release processes with traceability.
• Enforce safety-critical and mission-critical software standards with risk reduction.
• Define software testing, verification, and validation strategies across development phases.
• Investigate and resolve software anomalies throughout lifecycle.
• Support Spacecraft AIT activities ensuring software readiness.
• Coordinate and lead software deliveries from suppliers to meet standards.
• Participate in subcontractor reviews and technical meetings with procurement.
• Balance rapid development with strong Product Assurance in a fast-paced space environment.

Kenntnisse

Flight Software PA

Software testing

Embedded flight software

Software configuration management

ECSS standards familiarity

Risk & anomaly management

Prioritization & deadlines

Team collaboration

Independent work

English communication

Ausbildung

Degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Physics, or related

Jobbeschreibung

Job description

Team & Reporting Line: Program Management Team | Reports to Lead Project & Procurement Manager

Our Mission

At constellr, we’re harnessing the power of space to solve one of Earth’s greatest challenges: climate resilience & security in a changing world. Our thermal satellite constellation delivers the most accurate land surface temperature data on the market, equipping commercial players, governments, defence agencies, and global institutions with the thermal intelligence they need to make strategic decisions– from national security and infrastructure to agriculture and climate resilience.

As a fast-scaling company with offices in Brussels, Freiburg, Munich, Washington and Toulouse, our multidisciplinary team of engineers, scientists, and strategists is building the future of space-based Earth observation

Your Role

We are looking for a proactive and detail-driven team playerto join ourProduct and Quality Assurance (PQA) team, with a strong focus onFlight Software Product Assurance.

In this role, you will play a critical part in ensuring thequality, safety, and reliability of both flight and ground softwareacross our growing satellite constellation. You will work at the intersection ofengineering, quality, and operations, helping to shape how we build and deliver software in a fast-moving, mission-critical space environment.

The PQA team defines and maintains the company’squality and Product Assurance standards. Your work will directly contribute to ensuring our software meets thehighest levels of robustness, compliance, and reliability, supporting mission success in bothorbit and ground operations.

This is a role for someone who thrives incomplex, technical environments, enjoys working across disciplines, and is comfortable balancingstructured quality processeswith the pace of a rapidly scaling space organisation. You will be trusted to takeend-to-end ownership, bring clarity to ambiguity, and help embed strongengineering discipline across the software lifecycle.

Key responsibilities

• Develop, implement, and continuously improve a robustSoftware Product Assurance (PA) programme, reporting directly to theProduct Assurance Manager.

• Takeend-to-end ownership of Software Product Assuranceacross bothflight and ground softwarefor our satellite constellation.

• Ensure rigorous application ofsoftware configuration management and release processes, maintaining strongversion control, traceability, and engineering discipline.

• Enforce compliance withsafety-critical and mission-critical software standards, with a strong focus onrisk reduction and failure prevention.

• Define and overseesoftware testing, verification, and validation strategiesacross all development and delivery phases.

• Investigate, manage, and resolvesoftware anomaliesthroughout development, testing, integration, and operational phases.

• SupportSpacecraft Assembly, Integration and Testing (AIT)activities, ensuringsoftware readiness and complianceat every stage.

• Coordinate and leadsoftware deliveries from suppliers, ensuring alignment withinternal standards, schedules, and quality expectations.

• Participate insubcontractor reviews and key technical meetings, working closely withprocurement engineers and Product Assurance stakeholders.

• Balance the demands ofrapid development cycleswith the need to maintain strongProduct Assurance and software quality standardsin a fast-paced space environment.

Job requirements

About you

Required:

• Degree inEngineering, Computer Science, Physics, or a related scientific discipline.

• Proven experience inFlight Software Product Assurance within the space industry.

• Strong understanding ofsoftware testing, verification, and validationinsafety-critical environments.

• Experience withembedded flight software for satellites, spacecraft platforms, or payload systems(experience withFDIRhighly desirable).

• Strong proficiency insoftware configuration management tools and processes.

• Familiarity withECSS standards, particularlyECSS-Q-ST-80C (Software Product Assurance)andECSS-E-ST-40C (Software Engineering).

• Stronganalytical thinking and problem-solving skills, with experience inrisk management and anomaly investigation.

• Ability to managecompeting priorities and deadlines, with a proactive approach torisk identification and escalation.

• Strongteam mindset, with a desire to helpbuild and shape a growing organisation.

• Comfortable workingindependently, taking ownership and delivering in a fast-paced environment.

• Excellentwritten and spoken English communication skills.

Nice to Have _:_

• Experience withautomation, scripting, or AI-assisted engineering tools(e.g. prompt-based workflows).

• Exposure tohigh-growth or start-up aerospace environments.

• Broader understanding ofend-to-end spacecraft systems engineering lifecycles.

Why join constellr?

• High-Impact National Security Mission: Be part of an ambitious mission to launch the world’s first commercial thermal infrared constellation, delivering sovereign-grade “behavioural” intelligence from space to close critical blind spots for defence, intelligence, and maritime surveillance agencies.
• Fast-Paced “New Space” Innovation: Work at the leading edge of a rapidly evolving defence sector. By leveraging modern, agile New Space methodologies, you will help design, build, and deploy dual-use thermal payloads into operational orbit at a speed and scale that traditional aerospace models simply cannot match.
• Broad Interdisciplinary Exposure: Accelerate your professional growth by collaborating daily with a diverse, international cohort of astrophysicists, software developers, and defence-system engineers.
• Inclusive & Scientific Culture: Join a high-trust team deeply committed to diversity, inclusion, and scientific excellence, where academic curiosity is paired with high autonomy and a flat hierarchy.
• Financial Upside & Well-being: Benefit from a Virtual Share Option Plan (VSOP) for permanent employees, giving you a true stake in the company’s growth, alongside highly flexible hybrid working models.