Spacecraft FDIR Engineer: Reliability & Autonomous Recovery

Clearspace; City Of London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

ClearSpace is seeking an experienced FDIR Engineer to join the System team, developing and verifying FDIR concepts for current and future missions. You will collaborate across Systems, Software, Avionics, and Operations to ensure robust fault management and mission reliability.

The role requires 5–7 years in spacecraft systems engineering with FDIR design and verification experience, plus a university degree. MSc/PhD in aerospace or related fields is a plus.

Qualifications

• 5-7 years experience in spacecraft systems engineering.
• Experience in satellite engineering domains (Operations, SW, AOCS/GNC).
• University degree or equivalent education with relevant industry experience.
• Nice to have MSc/PhD in Aerospace, Engineering, Mechatronics, Physics or similar.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain the spacecraft FDIR concept, architecture, and implementation strategy in collaboration with Systems, Software, Avionics, Operations, and PA/QA teams.
• Derive, allocate, and manage spacecraft FDIR requirements and ensure their implementation across segment and subsystem hardware and software.
• Perform FDIR analyses to identify failure scenarios, fault propagation paths, detection mechanisms, and recovery strategies.
• Support RAMS and safety activities by providing FDIR inputs and ensuring consistency between fault management and mission reliability objectives.
• Contribute to spacecraft, avionics, and software architecture definition to ensure effective fault management implementation.
• Define and execute FDIR verification and validation activities, including test planning, procedure development, execution, and reporting.
• Support spacecraft functional validation, system integration, and qualification campaigns. Identify and analyse operational constraints related to fault management and autonomous recovery strategies.
• Participate in technical reviews and project milestones. Support mission preparation, commissioning, LEOP, and in-orbit anomaly investigations.

Skills

FDIR design

Systems engineering

RAMS inputs

Fault management

Autonomous operations

Problem solving

Education

University degree

MSc/PhD in Aerospace/Engineering/Mechatronics/Physics

Job description

ClearSpace is seeking an experienced FDIR Engineer to join the System team, developing and verifying FDIR concepts for current and future missions. You will collaborate across Systems, Software, Avionics, and Operations to ensure robust fault management and mission reliability.

The role requires 5–7 years in spacecraft systems engineering with FDIR design and verification experience, plus a university degree. MSc/PhD in aerospace or related fields is a plus.