Space Systems Engineering Degree Apprenticeship

Job Description:

Start date:

31st August 2027

Location:

Airbus Defence & Space Stevenage Duration: 5 years University:
University of Portsmouth Degree: BEng (Hons) Space Systems Engineering Final date to receive applications:
Applications will be open until 26 October 2026. After this date, the advert will close once sufficient applications are received. Early submission is recommended. We love your interest in joining Airbus! There is no limit on the number of positions you can apply for. However, please be aware that you can only progress in the selection process for one position at a time.

We recommend reviewing all available opportunities and applying to those that best match your experience and aspirations.

• Salary:£23,000 37 hours per week
• Half day Fridays!*
• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays
• Pension
• Success share
• Plus many more flexible benefits!
• * subject to completing full hours prior to this

An opportunity to join the satellite integration and test team as an Electrical Engineer working on exciting missions for the European Space Agency (ESA) and National space programmes. We build, test and launch spacecraft, providing you with an exciting opportunity for hands‑on electrical engineering, scripting and test solution design. Also included are travel opportunities to environmental test facilities and launch sites.

We built the Rosalind Franklin Mars Rover and launched Solar Orbiter from Florida; a spacecraft of ten instruments that is now travelling out to orbit the sun and will provide valuable data to the world’s scientists. Most recently we built, tested, and launched from French Guiana the Biomass spacecraft; this spacecraft included a novel P-band synthetic aperture radar, used to deliver crucial information about the state of the world’s forests and how they are changing.

We are currently testing the Forum spacecraft for ESA and working on a couple of national space projects. We are a community of around 20 engineers who are all passionate about finding technical electrical and functional test solutions and supporting the design of the associated test infrastructure. Our engineering community will help you develop technically and personally in your career  engineering community is friendly and supportive;

an important quality when we travel on test campaigns for reasonable periods of time. If you like the idea of working in a friendly engineering community, are willing to be technically challenged and with travel included; this is for you.

As a Degree Apprentice, you will gain experience of all the spacecraft subsystems and will get a good overview of the Satellite Assembly Integration and Test department. You will be supporting both UK National and ESA missions such as the earth observation spacecraft, Forum or the Vigil space weather satellite! The tasks will be varied and require you to use different skills such as performing electrical measurements, writing and debugging scripts, investigating anomalies, developing new test solutions, preparing presentations, and collaborating with the wider Airbus engineering community.

You will aspire to lead and support activities within the Satellite Electrical Engineering department such as spacecraft subsystem integration, functional and system testing, anomaly investigations, and initial test result analysis; as well as environmental testing and supporting spacecraft interface checks at the launch site. You will work in a collaborative team environment, both locally and with transnational colleagues, focused on developing innovative test solutions and driving future innovation.

We will support you to be in the driving seat of your development within Airbus. We are a diverse and inclusive team and…