Senior Systems Engineer

ClearSpace; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading space technology company in the United Kingdom is looking for a Senior Systems Engineer to support the full technical development of satellite missions. Responsibilities include managing core system elements, overseeing software design, and ensuring successful launch and in-orbit commissioning. The ideal candidate will collaborate across teams to maintain control of project technicalities and manage the engineering documentation.

Responsibilities

• Participation in technical activities planning, including technical schedule and cost.
• Manage core SE elements such as functional analysis, concept of operations, mission analysis, specifications.
• Participation in risk, opportunity and resolution plans.
• Oversee sub-systems and software design, ensuring management and control of interfaces.
• Provide technical input to Product Assurance activities.
• Lead technical assessments, trade-offs, baseline definition, and maintenance.
• Write and maintain engineering documentation.
• Manage system technical baseline and ensure change control.
• Ensure development and validation planning for system, spacecraft, and Ground Segment.
• Follow implementation phase ensuring successful execution of AIV/T phase.
• Support Launch and In-orbit commissioning.
• Consolidate and iterate on the system engineering process at a company-wide level.

Job description

At ClearSpace, we believe in reusability, in affordability driving disruption, and that no progress is real unless it is sustainable.

Our company was founded in 2018 out of the realization that in‑orbit servicing and space debris removal are vital services for the future of space exploration and operations. Today ClearSpace has assembled an expert engineering team and is leading the way toward sustainable space operations. From a garage in Switzerland, we now operate across UK and Europe, and are working with world‑leading institutions and companies to bring our dream of a sustainable space ecosystem to life.

We are looking for a Senior Systems Engineer to join our Systems Engineering Team who will work on both our current missions and future projects.

The Role

As a Senior System Engineer, you will support the full technical development of satellite missions—from early concept and requirements through to launch and in‑orbit commissioning. You’ll coordinate system‑level activities, manage interfaces, and ensure technical consistency across subsystems, while maintaining control of the system baseline and engineering documentation.

Responsibilities

• Participation in technical activities planning, including technical schedule and cost
• Manage core SE elements such as functional analysis, concept of operations, mission analysis, system modes, specification tree and requirements, interfaces and engineering database
• Participation in risk, opportunity and resolution plans;
• Oversee sub‑systems and software design, ensuring management and control of interfaces
• Provide technical input to Product Assurance activities
• Lead technical assessments, trade‑offs, baseline definition and maintenance, budgets;
• Write and maintain engineering documentation
• Manage system technical baseline and ensure change control
• Ensure development and validation planning for system, spacecraft and Ground Segment in line with technical and programmatic constraints
• Follow implementation phase ensuring successful execution of AIV/T phase
• Support Launch and In orbit commissioning
• Consolidate and iterate on the system engineering process at a company‑wide level