Senior Satellite Industrialization Engineer

ICEYE; Espoo; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

ICEYE is seeking a Senior Satellite Industrialization Engineer in Espoo, Finland. You’ll drive industrial maturity for satellite designs, contribute to DFM/DFX standards, and act as a technical reviewer at design gates.

You’ll shape production line, automation, and facility requirements to support scalable manufacturing. You will collaborate with Engineering, AIT, and Production teams to gather input and translate complex design details into clear standard content, ensuring manufacturability and

Qualifications

• Hands-on design or systems engineering background in satellite hardware.
• Solid understanding of how design decisions affect manufacturability, tolerancing, and test outcomes.
• Experience building and maintaining standards, gate criteria, and tooling.
• Experience working with Engineering, AIT, or Production teams to gather input.
• Strong communication skills to translate design detail into standard content.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the DFM/DFX standard: develop and maintain design rules, tolerancing guidance, and material/process selection criteria.
• Support design-review gates as a technical reviewer.
• Define industrialization requirements beyond the design standard: production line design, automation, and facility requirements.
• Collaborate with Engineering, AIT, and Production to gather input against real design constraints.
• Coordinate with ICEYE's Global Manufacturing Infrastructure on site-specific details for line, automation, and facility needs.
• Build and maintain manufacturability tooling: checklists, scorecards, and templates used by design and production teams.
• Track target metrics as satellite and subsystem designs move through MRL stages.
• Interface with Manufacturing Engineering to translate field friction into standard updates.

Skills

Satellite hardware design

Manufacturability

DFM/DFX

Cross-functional collaboration

Clear communication

Job description

Role highlights:

• Senior Satellite Industrialization Engineer
• Location: Espoo, Finland
• Department: Industrialization Systems / Global Manufacturing Organization (GMO)
• Employment type: Permanent
• Workplace model: Office / Hybrid
• Employment is subject to applicable security screening (incl. SUPO, where required)

Why this role matters:

As a Senior Satellite Industrialization Engineer, you'll do the hands‑on technical work that moves satellite designs toward industrial maturity (MRL 8-9). You'll contribute to the DFM/DFX design standard, act as a technical reviewer at design-review gates, and help define the production line, automation, and facility requirements behind them. Your depth in RF, optical, or broader satellite systems keeps that work grounded in what a real satellite design actually requires.

Who We Are

ICEYE is the world leader in sovereign intelligence from space. We deliver persistent monitoring capabilities to detect and respond to changes in any location on Earth.

ICEYE owns the world's largest and most advanced SAR (synthetic aperture radar) satellite constellation. To our customers we provide intelligence with unmatched quality, latency and revisit times, in any weather, day or night. To governments who choose to operate their own constellation we provide this proven capability as a sovereign system.

ICEYE-built constellations serve customers in defence and intelligence, environmental monitoring, insurance and emergency management. We enable fast decisions that contribute to a safer future.

Founded and headquartered in Finland, ICEYE operates globally with over 1000 employees across Europe, North America, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific.

Your day-to-day responsibilities

• Contribute to the DFM/DFX standard: help develop and maintain design rules, tolerancing guidance, and material/process selection criteria.
• Support the design-review gates your team is involved in: help define gate criteria and participate as a technical reviewer.
• Support the definition of industrialization requirements beyond the design standard: production line design requirements, automation requirements, and facility requirements for satellite and subsystem manufacturing.
• Work with Engineering, AIT, and Production teams to gather the input needed to define these requirements against real design and production constraints.
• Support coordination with ICEYE's Global Manufacturing Infrastructure team on the detail needed to implement line, automation, and facility requirements at each site.
• Build and maintain manufacturability and industrialization tooling: checklists, scorecards, and templates that design and production teams actually use.
• Help track the target metrics that satellite and subsystem designs are measured against as they move through MRL stages.
• Support the interface with the Manufacturing Engineering function, helping capture field and design friction and translate it into standard updates.

What we’re looking for

Must haves:

• Hands-on design or systems engineering background in satellite hardware, with depth in RF, optical, or broader satellite subsystems.
• Solid understanding of how design decisions affect manufacturability, tolerancing, integration, and test outcomes.
• Comfortable doing the technical work of building and maintaining standards, gate criteria, and tooling, under the direction of the function's lead.
• Experience working alongside Engineering, AIT, or Production teams to gather technical input.
• Strong communication skills, able to translate technical design detail into clear standard and tooling content.

Nice to haves:

• Prior exposure to DFM/DFX practices, design-review gates, or producibility standards in aerospace or comparable hardware environments.
• Experience contributing to production line, automation, or facility requirements for hardware manufacturing.
• Familiarity with cleanroom environments and EGSE/MGSE.
• Experience in a multi-site or scale-up manufacturing environment.

Application Process

• Talent Acquisition Interview
• Hiring Manager Interview
• Technical Interview + Task
• Final interview

Working at ICEYE

At ICEYE, you’ll join a diverse and highly engaged team united by the ambition to make the impossible possible. As a global scale-up, we combine speed and ambition with the opportunity to take real ownership from day one. Your growth, wellbeing, and success are a priority, with continuous professional development, training opportunities, and a culture where collaboration is how we win.

How We Work (Our Values)

Make the impossible possible: We set ambitious goals and stay calm under pressure. We bring grit, optimism, and ownership when things get hard, and we keep moving until we find a way.

• Be curious: Go deep, ask questions, listen carefully, and think critically. Understand the "why" behind decisions.
• See the big picture: Stay close to what’s happening across the company so you can make better decisions. Consider how your work affects others.
• Drive effective teamwork: Create psychological safety, invite different perspectives, and build inclusive teams. There are no bad questions.
• Act as one team: We win together. We match tasks to the right owner and stay agile as priorities shift.
• Have fun: What we do matters—and it should be enjoyable. Celebrate progress, take pride in results, and share the wins.

Benefits

Our benefits are designed to support your health and wellbeing, at work and beyond. We keep improving them based on employee feedback, and offerings vary by location. Talent Acquisition will confirm what applies for this role and location during the process.

Our Commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

We want ICEYE to be a place where people can be themselves and do great work. Different backgrounds and perspectives make us stronger, which is why we work to create an environment where people feel included, respected, and able to speak up. Whatever your background, we want you to bring your authentic self to the table.

We’re committed to fair, inclusive hiring and equal opportunity. Everyone is welcome to apply. If you need any adjustments or support during the recruitment process, tell us—we’ll do our best to help.