Systems Engineer - Service Commissioning

SSC - Swedish Space Corporation; Kiruna kommun, Solna kommun; On-site; SEK 437,684 - 656,527; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Opportunity for personal and career development

Dynamic workplace with extensive customer contacts

Affirmative company culture

Job summary

A global provider of advanced space services is seeking a Systems Engineer to join their team in Kiruna, Sweden. This role involves technical leadership, integration of new space missions, and direct interaction with international customers. Candidates should hold a relevant degree and possess experience in Systems Engineering. The position offers opportunities for personal development and significant involvement in exciting projects within the growing space industry, ensuring a collaborative and innovative workplace.

Qualifications

• Experience in Systems Engineering hardware/software design, integration, test, or critical support.
• Comfortable communicating in English, both written and spoken.
• Ability to write technical documentation and follow formal processes.

Responsibilities

• Lead integration of new space missions into the SSC TT&C system.
• Perform critical operations and support incident management for routine operations.
• Interaction with customers and technology suppliers on technical matters.

Skills

Technical leadership

Collaboration

Communication skills

Systems integration

Education

Bachelor or Master degree in Electrical Engineering, Telecommunication Science or Space Technology

Job description

Welcome to SSC – Swedish Space Corporation, the perfect workplace for those passionate about technology in general and space in particular.

With space organizations, research institutes, institutional and commercial actors as customers, we offer specialist expertise in satellite communications, space consulting services, rocket and balloon systems, flight test services, satellite propulsion systems, and much more.

SSC also has one of the world’s largest global networks of ground stations for satellite communications. We own and operate the Esrange Space Center in Kiruna, northern Sweden, with the aim of launching satellites in the near future.

Are you fueled by a passion for people and the ambition to create an awesome workplace?
Are you ready to embark on an exciting journey with us to help Earth benefit from space?

If you answer yes to these questions, we invite you to seize the opportunity to make a significant impact as a Systems Engineer in our team. We are looking for a dedicated person who shares our core values of Customer passion, Care, Collaboration, Curiosity, and Courage.

Requirements

YOUR ROLE

We offer an opportunity to be part of the Service Commissioning team, a global team that has the end‑to‑end responsibility of setting up SSC systems as well as execute the critical operations to our customers, providing a link from the ground to the customers satellites. As a Systems Engineer, your role is to perform multi‑domain technical leadership, coordination, configuration, testing, documentation, and support. This is executed in the form of participation in projects, analyses/technical investigations as operational support, as well as support interactions with customers.

The work includes international travels to customers and other SSC facilities. As this position is critical to the operations of the SSC Services it may include out of hours working and/or being part of an on‑call team with up to 1 week on‑call per month.

Examples of work tasks:

• Systems Engineer in service establishments, lead integration of new space missions into the SSC telemetry, tracking and control (TT&C) system.
• Perform critical operations and early handover phase to operations for non‑critical support, as well as support incident management for routine operations.
• Interaction with customers on technical matters, document decisions, track changes and follow up on actions and overall deliverables on your projects during the integration process.
• Planning, executing and reporting testing both internally and with customer to enable a successful integration.
• Interaction with technology suppliers and vendors on technical matters.
• Providing coordination and reporting, internally and externally with customer to enable the technical implementation, on time and budget.

Responsibilities

WHO YOU ARE

To thrive in this role, you have a drive to provide excellence in technical solutions as well as a drive to learn new things. You like technical challenges, collaboration, and teamwork in an international environment. You have some years of experience of working with systems, preferably both hardware and software, and likely excited by the growing space industry. You are able to describe your designs and ideas to customers and colleagues with the ability to communicate complex technical solutions in an easy and understandable way. As required in the Space business, you are able to write technical documentation and follow formal processes.

We also believe you have:

• Bachelor or Master degree or corresponding experience in Electrical Engineering, Telecommunication Science or Space Technology and a general interest in all three areas.
• Experience in Systems Engineering hardware/software design, integration, test or critical support.
• You are comfortable communicating in English, both written and spoken.

It is a merit if you have:

• Comprehensive understanding of the theoretical aspects of the Space‑to‑Ground communications, and Software architecture.
• Experience of the Space‑to‑Ground Segment domain.
• Experience of Project Management, perform project planning, reporting and risk management.
• Familiarity with ground station/network equipment and protocols in satellite communication (RF modulation techniques, error coding, and standards).
• Good proficiency in Swedish.

Benefits

WE OFFER YOU

• A unique chance to work with a variety of Space projects in an area that is in rapid development and innovation with the inclusion of new technologies such as Software Defined Radio and cloud technologies.
• Great possibilities to influence our way of working.
• An excellent opportunity for personal and career development.
• An exciting and dynamic workplace with employees and locations all over the world.
• Extensive customer contacts and internal coordination between different parts of the organization.
• A workplace characterized by an open atmosphere and proud employees.

LOCATION

This is a permanent full‑time position located in preferable Kiruna. For the right candidate there will also be a possibility working from our office in Solna, Stockholm.

NEXT STEP

If this opportunity sparks your interest, don’t wait to apply! Applications are reviewed on an ongoing basis, and interviews will be conducted continuously. We kindly ask you to submit your CV when applying. While you are welcome to include a brief personal note or letter, our evaluation will primarily focus on your skills and qualifications as outlined in your CV, ensuring a fair and unbiased recruitment process.

We welcome your application no later than 2026-01-04. Due to the upcoming holiday period, the recruitment process will resume in January. Please note however, that the job advertisement may close earlier than the stated deadline if we receive a high volume of applications. This allows us to ensure a fair and efficient recruitment process and give each application the attention it deserves.

This is a security‑classified position and will require a background check prior to employment.

WE HELP EARTH BENEFIT FROM SPACE

Swedish Space Corporation (SSC) is a leading global provider of advanced space services, with more than 50 years of experience. We help space organizations, research institutes, commercial and institutional actors from all over the world to get access to space.

With local presence on all continents and about 700 committed employees, we offer specialist expertise in satellite communications and satellite control services, spacecraft operations, rocket and balloon systems, launch services and flight test services, as well as engineering, operations and consultancy services for space missions.

We help Earth benefit from Space. Learn more at sscspace.com