RAMS Engineer — Satellite Reliability & Safety

Blackshark; Toulouse; On-site; EUR 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Aerospacelab in Toulouse seeks a RAMS Engineer to ensure satellites and constellation meet dependability and safety objectives across the full lifecycle—from preliminary design to launch and in-orbit operations.

You will translate mission requirements into reliability budgets, drive analyses like FMEA, FMECA, FTA, and contribute to RAMS deliverables for reviews with customers and partners. English required, French a plus, and collaboration with multi-disciplinary teams is essential.

Qualifications

• Master's degree (or equivalent) in Aerospace, Electrical, Electronic, Systems, or Reliability Engineering.
• 3+ years of RAMS / dependability / safety engineering experience, ideally in space or high-reliability industry.
• Solid command of RAMS methods: FMEA/FMECA, FTA, RBD, reliability prediction, hazard/safety analysis.
• Working knowledge of ECSS-Q-ST-30, -40, -60, MIL-HDBK-217 and/or FIDES.
• Ability to read system architectures, interfaces, and requirements with multidisciplinary teams.
• Strong analytical rigour, clear technical writing, and autonomous delivery.
• Fluent English; additional languages a plus.

Responsibilities

• Define, allocate and track reliability, availability and safety budgets at system, subsystem, and equipment level.
• Plan and conduct FMEA / FMECA analyses (functional and hardware) and maintain CIL.
• Perform and review reliability predictions and consolidate RBDs and FTAs.
• Assess constellation-level availability and feed results into design and operations.
• Evaluate FDIR and autonomy concepts against failure modes.
• Lead hazard and safety analyses per ECSS-Q-ST-40.
• Maintain WCA, derating and part-stress verification with electronics/EEE teams.
• Produce RAMS deliverables and data packages for reviews.
• Support anomaly investigations and lessons-learned feedback.
• Interface with customers, partners and subcontractors on dependability requirements.

Skills

RAMS engineering

FMEA/FMECA

FTA

RBD

Reliability prediction

Hazard analysis

ECSS standards

MIL-HDBK-217 / FIDES

System interface

Data analysis (Python, Excel)

English (fluent)

Education

Master's degree in Aerospace / Electrical / Systems / Reliability Engineering

Tools

RAMS tools

Python

Reliability software

ECSS tooling

Job description

Aerospacelab in Toulouse seeks a RAMS Engineer to ensure satellites and constellation meet dependability and safety objectives across the full lifecycle—from preliminary design to launch and in-orbit operations.

You will translate mission requirements into reliability budgets, drive analyses like FMEA, FMECA, FTA, and contribute to RAMS deliverables for reviews with customers and partners. English required, French a plus, and collaboration with multi-disciplinary teams is essential.