AIT Systems Integration Engineer - Hybrid + Equity

NewOrbit Space; Reading; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Visa sponsorship

Relocation support

Private health insurance

Equity

Job summary

NewOrbit Space in Reading seeks an AIT Systems Integration Engineer to own functional and system testing of our spacecraft from integration to flight-ready status. You will bridge systems engineering, subsystem teams and the AIT functions, translating requirements into test procedures and ensuring traceable evidence before launch.

You should have hands-on hardware experience with GSE, familiarity with SmallSat practices, and a proven ability to manage test campaigns, NCRs, and verification data

Qualifications

• Degree in Aerospace, Electronic, Electrical or Systems Engineering, Physics, or equivalent experience.
• Typically 3+ years in spacecraft AIT, systems integration or test engineering.
• Hands-on experience with functional and system-level testing of satellites or space subsystems.
• Familiarity with SmallSat development approaches: agile, rapid iteration, protoflight models, and pragmatic use of COTS components.
• Working knowledge of satellite subsystems: EPS, OBC/C&DH, ADCS, communications (TT&C and payload RF), propulsion, thermal, structures and payloads.
• Experience using and setting up GSE, including EGSE, checkout systems and RF test equipment.
• Experience with requirements verification and maintaining a verification matrix through to close-out.
• Comfortable with lab equipment: oscilloscopes, power supplies, multimeters, spectrum analysers, logic analysers.
• Familiarity with common spacecraft interfaces and protocols (e.g. CAN, I2C, SPI, RS-422, SpaceWire, CCSDS).
• Clear technical writing for procedures, test reports and NCRs.

Responsibilities

• Own the functional and system test programme for the spacecraft, from unit-level acceptance, integration, thought to whole System End-to-End Testing.
• Write, review and run test specifications and procedures, including basic functional testing, FDIR, end-to-end tests and mission/day-in-the-life simulations.
• Lead test readiness reviews and test review boards, and sign off test reports.
• Run tests before, during and after environmental campaigns (vibration, thermal vacuum, EMC) to confirm spacecraft health.
• Diagnose anomalies, raise and track Non-Conformance Reports (NCRs), and drive root-cause investigations with subsystem engineers.
• Develop and maintain automated test scripts and telemetry/telecommand (TM/TC) databases used for testing.

Skills

Aerospace Engineering

Systems integration

Test engineering

SmallSat experience

GSE familiarity

Education

BSc in Engineering or Physics

Tools

GSE hardware

ECSS knowledge

Test software

Job description

NewOrbit Space in Reading seeks an AIT Systems Integration Engineer to own functional and system testing of our spacecraft from integration to flight-ready status. You will bridge systems engineering, subsystem teams and the AIT functions, translating requirements into test procedures and ensuring traceable evidence before launch.

You should have hands-on hardware experience with GSE, familiarity with SmallSat practices, and a proven ability to manage test campaigns, NCRs, and verification data