Spacecraft System Architect

Overview

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📌 Job description:

The selected candidate will serve as the mission’s technical authority and will hold ultimate responsibility for its technical success. We are seeking a seasoned and self-assured leader with prior experience in a senior role, demonstrating a strong blend of technical expertise, managerial capability, and stakeholder engagement skills. The ideal candidate will possess deep knowledge across all domains of spacecraft engineering, design, and operations.

• Lead multidisciplinary technical teams to deliver complete end‑to‑end mission development activities, covering Space, Ground, Launch segments, and in‑orbit operations.
• Oversee the technical schedule on a daily basis, ensuring timely delivery of all elements required to meet program milestones.
• Manage the technical baseline, including assessing the impact of changes and non‑conformances across the entire system.
• Own the technical risk register and associated cost considerations.
• Identify, analyse, and derive technical, programmatic, and business requirements, as well as constraints and assumptions affecting compagny's missions.
• Define and evaluate overall mission architectures.
• Coordinate the work of a broad range of domain experts to ensure successful delivery of full mission developments.
• Define and oversee system‑level engineering support activities for all spacecraft aspects, including monitoring and controlling subsystem interfaces and Spacecraft‑Launch Vehicle / Spacecraft‑Ground Segment interfaces.
• Coordinate engineering activities for the Ground Segment and mission operations, ensuring compatibility with spacecraft design and mission objectives.
• Establish and manage the system‑level design, development, and verification philosophy, ensuring coherence and alignment across all engineering areas.
• Lead interactions with customers, partners, and subcontractors.
• Monitor and control the technical work performed by subcontractors and the teams across design, development, production, and Assembly, Integration and Testing (AIT), ensuring compliance with contractual requirements.
• Provide expertise and support during anomaly and failure reviews at equipment, subsystem, system, and in‑orbit levels, and contribute to the development of corrective actions.
• Coordinate support for design reviews and assess compliance against system‑level requirements. Maintain and control all system‑level budgets, ensuring up‑to‑date documentation and analyses.
• Support in‑orbit operations, including LEOP and IOT phases.
• Assist the Spacecraft Program Manager in negotiations related to technical aspects of spacecraft and launcher contracts.
• Support proposal development and writing for future business opportunities.

• More than 10 years of experience in the spacecraft industry, including at least 5 years in technical leadership roles.
• MSc Degree in Aerospace, Engineering, Mechatronics, Physics or similar
• Proven experience in system‑level requirements decomposition, trade‑off analyses, and the development of sizing and error budgets for spacecraft systems.
• Solid working knowledge of spacecraft operations and associated ground systems.
• Strong familiarity with the complete space program lifecycle—from business development, proposal preparation, and contract negotiations through design, development, assembly, testing, and final delivery.
• In‑depth knowledge and hands‑on experience in at least three of the following domains is required:
• Spacecraft system‑level design and analysis
• Ground Segment design and implementation
• Avionics and electronics
• Electrical and power systems
• Attitude and Orbit Control
• Propulsion
• Thermal and mechanical engineering
• FDIR (Fault Detection, Isolation and Recovery)
• Spacecraft Assembly, Integration and Testing (AIT)
• LEOP and in‑orbit spacecraft operations
• Manufacturing processes
• Launcher interfaces
• Technical team leadership
• Confidence with leading multidisciplinary project teams
• Highly organized, capable of tracking multiple streams of critical activities at once
• Experience working in a technical capacity with LEO, MEO or GEO Spacecraft system definition and design. A proven track record of successfully delivering complex space development programs