AOCS Engineer

Aerospacelab; Toulouse; On-site; EUR 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Aerospacelab in Toulouse is seeking an AOCS engineer to design and implement attitude and orbit control solutions for satellites across missions. You will work to ensure pointing stability and robustness, and contribute to improving our design and simulation toolchain.

Collaborating with multidisciplinary teams, you will guide AOCS from concept through launch, with focus on validating subsystems and supporting testing.

Qualifications

• MSc or PhD in a relevant field.
• Good knowledge of AOCS design.
• Familiarity with MATLAB/Simulink.
• Fluency in English.

Responsibilities

• Participate in the development of Attitude and Orbit Control Systems.
• Participate in the development of simulation products.
• Provide support and analyses for mission and systems engineering, and operations.
• Provide support for testing of AOCS subsystem and hardware.

Skills

AOCS design

Fluency in English

Simulation development

Education

MSc or PhD in a relevant field

Tools

MATLAB

Simulink

Git

Job description

About Aerospacelab

Our mission is supported by an ambitious vertically integrated approach: design & manufacture of small satellites combined with development of earth observation services.

Since its creation in 2018, the company has already grown substantially. Our team gathers more than 25 engineering expertise, from hardware design to software development & data science.

In 2025, Aerospacelab counts offices in Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium), Toulouse (France), Lausanne (Switzerland) and US West Coast with more than 350 full-time employees, with the ambition to position itself as the European leader in small satellites.

Role overview

Asan AOCS engineer at Aerospacelab, you will participate in designing andimplementing attitude and orbit control solutions for satellites across variousmissions. Utilizing your expertise, you will work to ensure our missionsachieve the various mission performances on pointing, stability and robustnessthroughout their missions, as well as participate in improving our design andsimulation toolchain. Collaborating with multidisciplinary teams, you will haveyour hands on the AOCS design from concept through launch.

Duties

• Participatein the development of Attitude and Orbit Control Systems
• Participatein the development of simulation products
• Providesupport and analyses for mission and systems engineering, and operations
• Providesupport for testing of AOCS subsystem and hardware

Must have

• MScor PhD in a relevant field
• Goodknowledge of AOCS design
• Familiaritywith Matlab/Simulink
• Fluencyin English

Nice to have

• Understandingof version control in Git
• Experiencein building complex simulations and models