Senior Space Systems Engineer & Technical Lead

AAC Clyde Space; Glasgow; On-site; GBP 75,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

AAC Clyde Space is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer to lead the design, integration and delivery of spacecraft platforms and missions. You will translate objectives into robust system solutions, own major technical scopes, and guide teams across requirements, architecture, interfaces, verification, AIT and operations.

You will mentor engineers, drive key technical decisions, and coordinate with customers, suppliers and senior stakeholders to ensure mission success and technical integrity.

Qualifications

• Significant experience applying systems engineering to the development and delivery of complex multidisciplinary technical systems.
• Experience owning a subsystem or major work package through requirements, design, integration and verification.
• Strong leadership with cross-disciplinary coordination and clear technical decision making.

Responsibilities

• Act as Technical Lead for spacecraft projects or major work packages, ensuring technical coherence and delivery.
• Define and manage spacecraft architectures including CONOPS and power, data, comms, grounding and operational architectures.
• Lead requirements definition, traceability, verification and compliance across the project lifecycle.
• Maintain consistency across requirements, architecture, interfaces, budgets, verification, AIT and operations.
• Lead trade-offs balancing performance, cost, schedule and risk, providing clear recommendations to stakeholders.
• Coordinate multidisciplinary teams to resolve complex issues and document technical rationale.
• Lead interface management across spacecraft subsystems and platform–payload interfaces.
• Plan and lead system verification and validation activities with traceability and acceptance criteria.
• Support integration, qualification and testing, including investigation of anomalies.
• Develop mitigation and contingency strategies for technical and operational risks.
• Lead mission/constellation analysis using STK or equivalent tools where appropriate.
• Communicate status, risks and options clearly to customers, suppliers and management.
• Mentor engineers and contribute to improving systems engineering tools and processes.

Skills

Systems engineering

Technical leadership

Requirements management

Interface management

Risk management

Stakeholder communication

MBSE

English proficiency

Aerospace domain knowledge

Team mentoring

Education

Engineering/Physics degree or equivalent

Tools

STK or similar tools

Job description

AAC Clyde Space is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer to lead the design, integration and delivery of spacecraft platforms and missions. You will translate objectives into robust system solutions, own major technical scopes, and guide teams across requirements, architecture, interfaces, verification, AIT and operations.

You will mentor engineers, drive key technical decisions, and coordinate with customers, suppliers and senior stakeholders to ensure mission success and technical integrity.