Engineering Leader, Space Tech — London, EMI Options

Foundational; Greater London; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

EMI share options

25 days holiday

Enhanced parental leave

Cycle to work

London offices

Social events

Job summary

Foundational in London is seeking a Head of Engineering to lead our growing team across hardware, optics and software. You’ll translate our ground-breaking laser ranging technology into scalable stations and products delivered reliably.

You will hire, mentor and manage engineers, own delivery planning, drive architecture with the CTO, and support space agencies and customers, including ESA reviews.

Qualifications

• Senior engineering leadership delivering complex hardware and software systems.
• Background in space, defence, scientific instruments or similar.
• A track record of growing teams and delivery processes in a fast-moving company.
• Experience in systems engineering.

Responsibilities

• Lead, hire and develop engineers across disciplines.
• Own engineering delivery: planning, milestones and resourcing.
• Build design review, requirements, test and configuration processes that stay fast.
• Take station builds from prototype to repeatable production.
• Work with the CTO on architecture and the technical roadmap.
• Support customer and agency programmes, including ESA reviews.

Skills

Senior engineering leadership

Delivery of hardware/software systems

People management

Systems engineering

Job description

Foundational in London is seeking a Head of Engineering to lead our growing team across hardware, optics and software. You’ll translate our ground-breaking laser ranging technology into scalable stations and products delivered reliably.

You will hire, mentor and manage engineers, own delivery planning, drive architecture with the CTO, and support space agencies and customers, including ESA reviews.