Senior Space Mission Analysis Engineer - Impactful Missions

Creotech Instruments; Town of Poland (NY); On-site; USD 100,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private medical care

Sports card

Job summary

Creotech Instruments is seeking Space Engineers to join a tight-knit team working across mission analysis and early mission design. You will contribute to feasibility studies, orbital maneuver planning, and system-level trade-offs while collaborating with engineers from multiple domains.

Ideal candidates have at least 5 years in Mission Analysis, a proactive mindset, and hands-on problem-solving skills. Strong Python experience and curiosity across aerospace domains are highly valued.

Qualifications

• At least 5 years of professional experience in Mission Analysis.
• Experience with Python.
• Basic understanding of orbital mechanics and systems engineering.

Responsibilities

• Perform mission analysis including lifetime, coverage, revisit time, and performance assessments.
• Plan orbital maneuvers and optimize trajectories.
• Contribute to early mission design and concept development.
• Conduct feasibility studies for new mission concepts.
• Perform system-level trade-off studies to support design decisions.
• Present results to clients and ESA.
• Collaborate with system engineers across domains.
• Develop and improve internal tools in Python.

Skills

Initiative

Hands-on problem solving

Broad engineering curiosity

Willingness to learn across domains

Orbital mechanics knowledge (basic)

Tools

Python

STK

GMAT

FreeFlyer

Job description

Creotech Instruments is seeking Space Engineers to join a tight-knit team working across mission analysis and early mission design. You will contribute to feasibility studies, orbital maneuver planning, and system-level trade-offs while collaborating with engineers from multiple domains.

Ideal candidates have at least 5 years in Mission Analysis, a proactive mindset, and hands-on problem-solving skills. Strong Python experience and curiosity across aerospace domains are highly valued.