Senior AOCS Systems Engineer — Hybrid Warsaw

ICEYE; Warsaw (IN); Hybrid; USD 48,117 - 85,542; Full time

Job summary

ICEYE is seeking a Senior AOCS System Engineer to join the Engineering team in Warsaw. You will work in the AOCS Domain, maintaining attitude and orbit control for our SAR satellites, collaborating with production, operations and software teams to ensure smooth ADCS and propulsion performance from design to in-service support.

The role emphasizes system performance, reliability and lifecycle ownership, with a hybrid work model (2–3 days onsite in Warsaw).

Qualifications

• Thinking from a first-principles mindset; resolve in-orbit anomalies systematically.
• Strong understanding of AOCS fundamentals: rigid body motion, coordinate transformations, and basic orbital dynamics.
• Knowledge of sensors/actuators in AOCS: reaction wheels, magnetorquers, star trackers, gyroscopes, magnetometers, GNSS.
• Understanding performance drivers of AOCS systems.
• Proven track record owning cross-domain systems across lifecycle including maintenance and operations.
• Broad knowledge across controls, mechanical and electronics with a system-wide perspective.
• Proficiency in Python, C++ or Matlab.

Responsibilities

• Drive selection of future AOCS hardware components.
• Characterize and validate AOCS performance using telemetry data and in-orbit experiments; analyze data with your analysis software.
• Develop software tools to predict performance of future AOCS systems.
• Maintain verification procedures and work with production/testing teams on improvements and new test jigs.
• Debug on-orbit anomalies requiring deep system understanding and root-cause analysis.
• Support software teams in implementing changes to prevent repetition of known issues.

Skills

First-principles thinking

AOCS fundamentals

Sensors and actuators

Cross-domain ownership

Multidisciplinary knowledge

Python

C++

MATLAB

Job description

ICEYE is seeking a Senior AOCS System Engineer to join the Engineering team in Warsaw. You will work in the AOCS Domain, maintaining attitude and orbit control for our SAR satellites, collaborating with production, operations and software teams to ensure smooth ADCS and propulsion performance from design to in-service support.

The role emphasizes system performance, reliability and lifecycle ownership, with a hybrid work model (2–3 days onsite in Warsaw).