Senior Spacecraft Data Handling Engineer

Clearspace; Greater London; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

ClearSpace in London is seeking an On-Board Data Handling Engineer to join our Electrical team, focusing on data handling/avionics architecture and interfaces for current and future missions.

You will contribute across the full mission lifecycle—from concept and requirements through design, integration, and in-orbit commissioning—working with software, systems, and hardware engineers to ensure a coherent, robust system design.

Qualifications

• BSc or MSc in Aerospace Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Physics, or a related discipline
• 5+ years Electrical Engineering experience in the space industry in an avionics/data handling role
• Knowledge of common spacecraft communication buses (CAN,SpaceWire, Ethernet,etc.)
• Familiarity with programable logic and microcontrollers.
• Experience working with system-level requirements, interfaces, and technical documentation
• Knowledge of typical program lifecycles, with previous experience as an active contributor to key formal reviews (PDR, CDR, etc)
• Ability to work in a team and willingness to collaborate outside your immediate expertise
• Well-organised, with the ability to handle multiple technical topics in parallel

Responsibilities

• Provide data handling system engineering, both high level architecture and detailed electronics design, from specification to integration
• Develop and maintain data handling system architectures for ClearSpace missions, covering hardware, interface and protocol definitions
• Specify and select hardware for on-board data processing to ensure high reliability and high compute capability
• Act as the technical point of contact on the data handling systems with key stakeholders: internal project teams, flight software team, customers, subcontractors.
• Perform requirements engineering (analysis, flow-up and down) related to data handling systems, and the electrical interfaces of other on-board hardware
• Maintain spacecraft budgets and parametric models for the data handling systems
• Support the definition of test equipment
• Define validation, verification and test plans
• Support Product Assurance activities and technical reviews
• Contribute to development, verification, and AIV/T planning at system and spacecraft level
• Support integration and test of electrical units, including generation of reports
• Support flight operations
• Generate documentation for the full project lifetime (e.g. Design, Development and Verification Plan; FMEA; design review documentation; in-orbit subsystem operational procedures)
• Support to customer and project reviews

Skills

Electrical engineering

Spacecraft avionics

Data handling

System-level requirements

CAN bus

Education

Aerospace Eng.

Electrical Eng.

Physics

Tools

CAN

SpaceWire

Ethernet

Job description

ClearSpace in London is seeking an On-Board Data Handling Engineer to join our Electrical team, focusing on data handling/avionics architecture and interfaces for current and future missions.

You will contribute across the full mission lifecycle—from concept and requirements through design, integration, and in-orbit commissioning—working with software, systems, and hardware engineers to ensure a coherent, robust system design.