Systems Engineer - Satellite Mission Control (Hybrid)

Eutelsat; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Eutelsat is seeking a Systems Engineer to contribute to the specification and development of the mission control and management systems for IRIS² and future satellite constellations. In satellite communications, the mission control centre orchestrates payload activities and configures space and ground assets to deliver services.

The role spans planning, resource management, and integration of multiple system domains.

Qualifications

• 5–10 years of professional experience in satellite mission planning, systems engineering or related field.
• Master’s degree in engineering, computer science or a technical discipline.
• Experience leading technical discussions with external suppliers and partners.
• Fluent English, written to specification standard.
• Experience on space, telecom or defence programmes with formal review lifecycles (SRR/PDR/CDR).
• Understanding of modern software deployment and architecture methodologies.
• Understanding of satellite constellation mission and fleet management.
• Experience in satellite constellation operations (space or ground), satellite internet services and non-terrestrial networks.
• Experience in 5G RAN or transport network orchestration, management and control.
• Experience in software development, data model and schema design.
• Experience in optimisation and scheduling algorithms and tools.
• Familiarity with model-based systems engineering and requirements-management tools.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the Mission Control Centre procurement process by authoring specifications and supplier assessments.
• Translate system needs into functional designs and sequencing of the Mission Control Centre.
• Interface with external consultants and suppliers, integrating input into design of other systems.
• Contribute to end-to-end system design by trade-offs with subsystems teams.
• Define mission planning operational concepts: planning cycles, horizons and failure handling.
• Support integration, acceptance and verification with IVV teams.
• Assess and contribute to planning algorithms in collaboration with simulation teams.
• Design integration of Eutelsat’s commercial systems with IRIS² assets.

Skills

Satellite systems engineering

Requirement management

Stakeholder leadership

English proficiency

5G RAN / transport network orches

Education

Master's degree in engineering

Tools

Model-based systems engineering tools

Requirements-management tools

Architecture modelling tools

Job description

Eutelsat is seeking a Systems Engineer to contribute to the specification and development of the mission control and management systems for IRIS² and future satellite constellations. In satellite communications, the mission control centre orchestrates payload activities and configures space and ground assets to deliver services.

The role spans planning, resource management, and integration of multiple system domains.