Senior Small Satellites Engineer

Telespazio Be; Noordwijk; Hybrid; EUR 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working scheme

Relocation package

Health insurance

Pension scheme

Career development budget

Travel allowance

Job summary

Telespazio Belgium, working at ESTEC in the Netherlands, invites a Senior Small Satellites Engineer to join our on-site team as contractor for Telespazio Belgium. You will contribute to in‑orbit technology demonstration projects and coordinate across engineering disciplines.

Hybrid working (3 days in the office, 2 days remote in NL) with a competitive salary and extensive relocation support. A Master’s in Physics or Engineering and space systems experience are required to help advance mission

Qualifications

• Master's degree in Physics or Engineering.
• Experience participating in reviews.
• Procurement and technical monitoring experience.
• Knowledge of Space Engineering Standards.
• Understanding of space missions and spacecraft systems design.
• Understanding of space systems architectures.
• Systems Engineering in early project phases (trade-offs, budgets, tech development).

Responsibilities

• Provide systems engineering support for In-Orbit Technology Demonstration Projects.
• Support the section for In-Orbit Technology Demonstration Projects based on Small Satellites.
• Contribute to system architectures and operations concepts.
• Assist in system and subsystem design definition activities.
• Assist in requirement management with traceability and interfaces.
• Support design trade-off discussions and identify main system drivers.
• Contribute to budgeting tracking across the project lifecycle for compliance.
• Support qualification and verification activities at system and subsystem levels.
• Identify technical risks and mitigation actions.
• Interface with engineering disciplines and QA functions.
• Coordinate with external interfaces (launch services, flight ops, users).
• Contribute to end-to-end mission performance simulators and models.
• Provide support for launch preparation, LEOP and in-orbit commissioning.
• Assist in monitoring industrial activities and participate in reviews.

Skills

Reviews experience

Procurement monitoring

Space engineering standards

Space missions knowledge

Spacecraft systems design

Space systems architecture

Systems engineering

Security clearance

Education

Master's degree in Physics or Engineering

Job description

Telespazio Belgium can count on more than 45 years of experience in the field of Space Operations Service & Engineering activities.

We provide a significant contribution to the most major Space programs of the European Space Agency, EUSPA and other Telespazio Groups. Our core business is to work on the ground to build bridges into space, contributing to the success of ambitious missions.

The European Space Agency is our biggest client and we provide highly qualified employees to many sites of ESA but mainly for ESTEC in the Netherlands, and we provide a permanent contract with great benefits, a good salary, a relocation package along with genuine support to our employees.

Telespazio Belgium has an on‑site service at ESTEC in the Netherlands, and we are looking for a highly skilled Senior Small Satellites Engineer to work there.
Candidates must be eligible for a security personal clearance from an EU Member State national security administration

What is expected from you:

Small Satellites Systems Engineering Support to In Orbit Technology Demonstration Projects

• Support the activities of the section for In-Orbit Technology Demonstration Projects based on Small Satellites
• Providing system engineering support, contributing throughout all the projects’ development phases and lifetime
• Assisting in system architectures and concepts of operations’ definition
• Assisting in system’s and satellite subsystems’ design definition activities
• Assisting in requirement management including definition of system technical requirement and reviewing requirements flow-down from Space Segment System to subsystems/units, including interfaces, and help maintain requirement traceability and the requirements database / VCD
• Supporting identification of main system drivers for design, evaluation, and trade studies, and assist project design trade-off discussion
• Contributing to the consolidation and tracking of system budgets across the project life-cycle to support compliance checks.
• Supporting the qualification and acceptance test and verification activities, at system, subsystem and elementary levels
• Assisting in identification of technical risks and elaboration of mitigation actions, with monitoring of risks’ evolution and impact on schedules and performances
• Interfacing with engineering disciplines and PA/QA functions in support of the system engineering function
• Supporting interactions with projects’ external interfaces, e.g. launch services providers, flight operations segment function, missions’ output users’ communities’ and related ground segments’ development functions
• Contribution to the implementation of end-to‑end mission performance simulators and mission performance models
• Providing support for launch preparation activities, launch, LEOP and in‑orbit commissioning activities
• Assisting in the technical monitoring of industrial activities, including preparation of and participation to meetings and reviews, upon nomination of the service manager, in the system engineering and AIT/AIV domain

What you offer:

• Master's degree in Physics or Engineering.
• Experience in participating to reviews
• Experience with procurement and technical monitoring of industrial activities
• Experience with Space Engineering Standards and their preparation and implementation
• Knowledge of Space Missions and Spacecraft Systems Design
• Understanding of space systems architectures
• Systems Engineering in the early project phases (trade-offs, budgets, identification of critical technology developments, etc)

What we offer:

• A competitive salary
• 30 days of paid annual leave, plus the days ESTEC is closed including public holidays (~12 days) based on a 40-hour working week;
• Hybrid working scheme (3 days in the office and 2 days remote in the Netherlands)
• Flexible working hours; you are in charge of your own agenda respecting core working hours
• Fully paid collective extensive health insurance scheme;
• A good pension scheme with no personal contribution;
• A career development (Coursera membership + training budget);
• Travel allowance;
• Extensive relocation package

Where:

You will be working within ESTEC, the European Space Agency’s offices in the Netherlands as a contractor for Telespazio Belgium. We don’t expect the employees to be on-site full time however you will still have to relocate to the Netherlands for this position.

Check out the ESTEC site here: esa.int/About_Us/ESTEC

When

Deadline to apply: ASAP

Please note that interviews will be held via Teams.

We look forward to receiving your application for this position!