Satellite Solar Array Engineer — Flexible Work

Aerospacelab; Toulouse; Hybrid; EUR 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Career progression

Direct impact on growth

Fast-paced environment

Flexible ways of working

Job summary

Aerospacelab in Toulouse is seeking a Solar Array Engineer to design photovoltaic systems powering our satellites. You will own the solar array architecture from cell selection to panel layout and define tests for flight qualification.

This purely technical role collaborates with our system, power, thermal, structures, AIT and production teams, with no people management responsibilities.

Qualifications

• Define the qualification and acceptance test philosophy, write the test plans and specifications for each environment, and set the pass/fail criteria.
• Follow the campaigns through with the team that runs them, then review and interpret the results against your design.
• Design space solar array assemblies, from cell and CIC selection through panel layout and string configuration and electrical interfaces.
• Build power budgets and orbital energy-balance models with the system team, accounting for the mission profile and degradation over life.
• Define how the array interfaces with the spacecraft power system, covering bus voltage compatibility, string sizing, bypass and blocking diodes, harness routing, and grounding.
• Run and review the electrical analyses of the array, from cell and string behaviour to the effects of the space environment on its performance.
• Write the design specifications, interface control documents (ICDs), and qualification reports, and share what you learn with the wider engineering team.

Responsibilities

• Define the qualification and acceptance test philosophy, write the test plans and specifications for each environment, and set the pass/fail criteria.
• Follow the campaigns through with the team that runs them, then review and interpret the results against your design. If bench work appeals to you, there is room to take the measurements yourself.
• Design space solar array assemblies, from cell and CIC selection through panel layout and string configuration and electrical interfaces.
• Build power budgets and orbital energy-balance models together with the system team, accounting for the mission profile and for degradation over life.
• Define how the array interfaces with the spacecraft power system, covering bus voltage compatibility, strings sizing, bypass and blocking diodes, harness routing, and grounding.
• Run and review the electrical analyses of the array, from cell and string behaviour to the effects of the space environment on its performance.
• Write the design specifications, interface control documents (ICDs), and qualification reports, and share what you learn with the wider engineering team.

Skills

Solar array design

Power budgets

Orbital energy balance models

Test philosophy

Tools

Power supplies

Data acquisition systems

I-V curve tracers

Job description

Aerospacelab in Toulouse is seeking a Solar Array Engineer to design photovoltaic systems powering our satellites. You will own the solar array architecture from cell selection to panel layout and define tests for flight qualification.

This purely technical role collaborates with our system, power, thermal, structures, AIT and production teams, with no people management responsibilities.