Space Systems Engineer — End-to-End Mission Architecture

Clearspace; City Of London; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

ClearSpace is seeking a System Engineer to join our Mission and Systems Team, delivering spacecraft architecture from definition to operational support and defining the satellite bus across missions.

The role involves working in a fast-growing, multi-disciplinary environment with opportunities to grow and collaborate with geographically distributed teams, and to expand beyond your core discipline if desired.

Qualifications

• BSc Degree in Aerospace, Engineering, Physics or similar.
• 2 to 5 years experience on end to end mission experience working as a Systems Engineer for space systems, performing design and analysis.
• MSc/PhD Degree in Aerospace, Engineering, Mechatronics, Physics or similar.
• A team player, willing to get stuck in and collaborate wherever is needed.
• Agile, flexible and able to work across geographically-distributed teams.
• A great communicator.
• Experience in AIV or Operations of a space system.

Responsibilities

• Derive and manage mission, system and segment requirement specifications from mission goals, including system interfaces, across space, ground and launch segments, and ensuring traceability
• Perform system analyses and contribute to system-level trade-offs and design architecture decisions
• Contribute to core SE elements such as functional analysis, concept of operations definition, mission analysis, system modes, FMEA/FMECA, V&V planning
• Maintain system budgets (link, power, delta-v, propellant, etc)
• Evaluate risks and define mitigation strategies. Identify risks, and participate in risk, opportunity and resolution plans
• Write and maintain engineering documentation
• Participate in design reviews and respond to RIDs

Skills

Systems Engineering

Mission analysis

Education

BSc Aerospace/Engineering/Physics

MSc/PhD in Aerospace/Engineering/Mechatronics/Physics

Job description

ClearSpace is seeking a System Engineer to join our Mission and Systems Team, delivering spacecraft architecture from definition to operational support and defining the satellite bus across missions.

The role involves working in a fast-growing, multi-disciplinary environment with opportunities to grow and collaborate with geographically distributed teams, and to expand beyond your core discipline if desired.