Senior Launch Vehicle Interface Engineer

SWISSto12 SA; Northern, Foster City (KY, CA); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

SWISSto12 SA seeks a spacecraft systems engineer to lead system-level analyses, define requirements, and guide cross-discipline trade studies for advanced satellite programs. You will coordinate with customers, program managers, and engineering teams to ensure robust design, verification, and documentation through the lifecycle.

The role emphasizes leadership, clear technical writing, and collaboration across cultures within a fast-growing aerospace environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelors or Masters degree in Aerospace, Electrical, Mechanical, Systems Engineering, Physics, or equivalent and at least 7 years of relevant experience working with incrementally complex satellite systems
• Language: Fluent English is a prerequisite
• Demonstrate technical expertise and application of engineering principles, concepts, theory, and practice
• Real-world experience with system architecture, requirements definition, flow down, tracking and performing system-level analyses in support of trade studies

Responsibilities

• Perform systems engineering tasks through the entire lifetime of a satellite including proposal, design, integration, test, and operations
• Requirement definition, flowdown, verification, and validation, write and publish requirement specifications
• Lead cross-discipline trade studies and issue resolution efforts, occasionally outside of your specific area of expertise
• Performs system analyses, design, and development tasks
• Responsible for writing quality technical documentation and providing clear and concise presentations
• Support systems aspects of telecom satellite proposals
• Collaborate with technical staff, program managers and executive management
• Ensure technical leadership and excellence is maintained by mentoring our less experienced engineers
• Occasionally, you will be asked to participate in overall tasks and services inherent to a dynamic fast-growing company
• Manage the mechanical, electrical, RF, space environments interfaces, mission analysis and trajectory planning, launch base operations coordination
• Serve as the single point of contact with multiple launch vehicle providers regarding launch vehicle interfaces for spacecraft
• Work closely with the customers and program management teams on the programmatic aspects of launch vehicle interface management
• Work closely with the systems and subsystems teams to negotiate and document spacecraft to launch vehicle interfaces
• Author and manage the Launch Vehicle ICD
• Support other systems engineering activities based on program needs

Skills

System architecture

Trade studies

Subsystem knowledge

Spacecraft design principles

Documentation writing

Leadership ability

Cross-cultural communication

Team collaboration

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in Aerospace, Electrical, Mechanical, Systems Engineering, Physics

Tools

MATLAB/Simulink

Requirements tracing tools

Job description

SWISSto12 SA seeks a spacecraft systems engineer to lead system-level analyses, define requirements, and guide cross-discipline trade studies for advanced satellite programs. You will coordinate with customers, program managers, and engineering teams to ensure robust design, verification, and documentation through the lifecycle.

The role emphasizes leadership, clear technical writing, and collaboration across cultures within a fast-growing aerospace environment.