Senior Mission Analysis Engineer

Creotech Instruments; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Creotech Instruments in the United States is seeking a Mission Analysis Engineer to lead computations of lifetime, coverage, revisit times, and performance assessments for space missions.

You will plan orbital maneuvers, optimize trajectories, and contribute to early-phase design and feasibility studies, collaborating with system engineers and presenting results to clients and partners.

Qualifications

• Strong initiative and hands-on problem-solving mindset.
• Broad engineering curiosity and willingness to learn across domains.
• Basic understanding of orbital mechanics and systems engineering.
• Experience with Python.
• At least 5 years of professional experience in Mission Analysis.

Responsibilities

• Mission analysis including lifetime, coverage, revisit time, and performance assessments.
• Orbital maneuver planning and trajectory optimization.
• Early-phase mission design and concept development.
• Feasibility studies for new mission concepts.
• System-level trade-off studies to support key design decisions.
• Presenting results to clients, consortium partners, and ESA.
• Close collaboration with system engineers and domain experts (AOCS, mechanical, thermal, electronics, etc.).
• Building and improving internal tools, primarily in Python.

Skills

Python

Problem solving

Orbital mechanics

Systems engineering

Tools

STK

GMAT

FreeFlyer

Job description

What You’ll Work On

• Missionanalysis(lifetime, coverage, revisit time, performance assessments)
• Orbital maneuver planning and trajectory optimization
• Early-phasemissiondesign and concept development
• Feasibility studies for newmissionconcepts
• System-level trade-off studies to support key design decisions
• Presenting results to clients, consortium partners, and ESA
• Close collaboration with system engineers and domain experts (AOCS, mechanical, thermal, electronics, etc.)
• Building and improving internal tools (primarily in Python)

What We’re Looking For

• Strong initiative and hands-on problem-solving mindset
• Broad engineering curiosity and willingness to learn across domains
• Basic understanding of orbital mechanics and systems engineering
• Experience with Python
• At least 5 years of professional experience inMissionAnalysis

Nice to Have

• Experience with STK or similar tools (GMAT, FreeFlyer)
• Familiarity with astrodynamics libraries (Orekit, Astropy, Poliastro)

Why Join Us

• Real impact on cutting-edge spacemissions
• Fast learning curve and rapid skill development
• A small, highly capable, and collaborative team
• Exposure to projects and experience that are hard to find elsewhere in the market