Principal Engineer, Environmental Verification - Space

CubeSpace ADCS; Stellenbosch; On-site; ZAR 1,200,000 - 1,600,000; Full time

Job summary

CubeSpace ADCS seeks a Principal Engineer: Environmental Verification to lead the EV functional area and serve as the technical authority for proving product fitness for orbit. You will oversee environmental verification methods, standards, and facilities, and sign off on test results at reviews.

You will also line-manage the EV team, drive qualification campaigns, and mentor engineers while staying hands-on in critical analysis and testing campaigns that matter most.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in Mechanical/Mechatronic/Aerospace Engineering.
• 8+ years of experience in environmental testing and/or structural/thermal analysis.
• Demonstrated leadership of qualification or acceptance test campaigns.
• Experience leading or mentoring engineers.
• Advantageous: radiation, EMC or magnetic testing experience; test-facility commissioning or investment; a PhD in a related field.

Responsibilities

• Act as technical authority for all EV work across CS products, and sign off EV content at technical reviews.
• Give the qualification/acceptance pass-or-fail sign-off on whether a product has met its requirements by test.
• Set and maintain environmental, verification, qualification, acceptance and reliability test methods and standards.
• Be accountable for CS’s environmental test facilities and external test houses, and drive the test-facility business case.
• Line-manage, hire, mentor and grow the EV engineers.
• Lead qualification and acceptance test campaigns, from test plan to signed-off report.
• Model, analyse and correlate structural and thermal behaviour (analytical, numerical, FEM) under shock, vibration and thermal loads.
• Own the area’s reusable test procedures, fixtures, models and templates, and feed lessons from products back into the standards.

Skills

Leadership

Mentoring

Environmental testing

Structural/thermal analysis

FEM

Education

Master’s degree in Mechanical/Mechatronic/Aerospace Engineering

Tools

FEM software

Job description

CubeSpace ADCS seeks a Principal Engineer: Environmental Verification to lead the EV functional area and serve as the technical authority for proving product fitness for orbit. You will oversee environmental verification methods, standards, and facilities, and sign off on test results at reviews.

You will also line-manage the EV team, drive qualification campaigns, and mentor engineers while staying hands-on in critical analysis and testing campaigns that matter most.