Senior Systems Engineer

At Clear Space, we believe in reusability, inaffordability driving disruption, and that no progress is real unless it issustainable.

Our company was founded in 2018 out of therealization that in-orbit servicing and space debris removal are vital services for the future of space exploration and operations. Today Clear Space hasassembled an expert engineering team and is leading the way toward sustainablespace operations. From a garage in Switzerland, we now operate across UK and Europe, and are working with world-leading institutions and companies to bringour dream of a sustainable space ecosystem to life.

We are looking for a Senior Systems Engineer tojoin our Systems Engineering Team who will work on both our current missionsand future projects.

As a Senior System Engineer, you will support the full technical development of satellite missions—from early concept and requirements through to launch and in-orbit commissioning. You’ll coordinate system-level activities, manage interfaces, and ensure technical consistency across subsystems, while maintaining control of the system baseline and engineering documentation.

• Participation in technical activities planning, including technical schedule and cost
• Managecore SE elements such as functional analysis, concept of operations, missionanalysis, system modes, specification tree and requirements, interfaces and engineering database
• Participation in risk, opportunity and resolutionplans;
• Overseesub-systems and software design, ensuring management and control of interfaces
• Provide technical input to Product Assuranceactivities
• Lead technical assessments, trade-offs, baselinedefinition and maintenance, budgets;
• Managesystem technical baseline and ensure change control
• Ensuredevelopment and validation planning for system, spacecraft and Ground Segmentin line with technical and programmatic constraints
• Follow implementation phase ensuring successful execution of AIV/T phase
• Support Launch and In orbit commissioning
• Consolidate and iterate on the system engineering process at a company-wide level

• (BSc/MSc) Degree in Aerospace, Engineering, Physics or similar
• +10 Years' experience in spacecraft industry
• Experience in decomposition of system requirements, trade studies and sizing/error budget development for a Spacecraft system
• Familiarity with the full space program lifecycle, from business development, proposal generation and contract negotiations, all the way through design, development, assembly, test and successful delivery
• Confidence with leading multidisciplinary project teams
• Highly organized,capable of tracking multiple streams of critical activities at once

• Knowledge or a level of expertise including in one of these areas :
  
  Spacecraft System level design/analyses, Avionics/electronics, Electrical and Power, Attitude and Orbit Control, Propulsion, Thermal & Mechanical, Spacecraft AIT, Spacecraft LEOP + In-orbit operations, Manufacturing processes, Launcher Interfaces, FDIR
• Experience working in a technical capacity with LEO, MEO or GEO Spacecraft system definition and design
• Comfortable interacting with customers, both institutional (UKSA, ESA) and commercial

• Great team of smart people, in a friendly and open culture
• The freedom to evolve and grow within a team of experienced specialists
• Real responsibilities and challenges in a fast evolving company
• A caring and collaborative working environment