Space Systems Engineer (M/F)

Astroscale France are looking for a systems engineer to support the growth of our Toulouse office, and to help in the design and development of our new missions and projects. 

As a Systems Engineer you are central to the design of our missions. 

You will work as the mission architect, facilitating trade-offs across system design, requiring collaboration with sub systems engineers and project managers while balancing the needs of missions and steering the technical solutions towards an achievable conclusion. 

At Astroscale, our Systems Engineers are involved on a mission from beginning to end.  Starting with writing bids to customers, then developing and analysing the design during the early mission phases; you will be supporting testing during AIT (and leading system testing), during the launch campaign and finally assist with in-orbit commissioning of the satellite.

It doesn't end there though! Even after the mission is in orbit, as a Systems Engineer you may be called upon at critical moments during the mission to provide guidance to the operations team.

Responsibilities

• Performing trade-off analysis 


• Performing analysis of the system design 


• Generate and maintain system level budgets (mass, power, data) 


• Generate and maintain the requirements and associated design & verification compliance


• Prepare sub-system requirements specification to support procurement 


• Review and modify FDIR techniques, perform FMECA 


• Adapting the system design from existing mission architectures to meet the needs of the current work 


• Coordinating with the subsystem leads to understand their problems 


• Reviewing inputs from subsystem engineers or external partners and critiquing appropriately 


• Authoring and maintaining system level documents, e.g. CONOPS, V&V plan, System test plans 


• Presenting results of the above tasks to internal and external customers


• Develop and maintain tooling to support system analysis


• Assist with writing bids, developing and analysing designs during early phases and then continuing that support into the testing phase with AIT. 


• Once a mission is launched you will assist with in-orbit commissioning of satellites and should be ready to support the spacecraft operations team with guidance during critical moments 

Experience and Qualifications

Essential Skills

• At least 4 years’ experience of space system engineering in a commercial environment


• An understanding of all the critical subsystems that make up a satellite mission 


• Excellent communication skills 


• Excellent coaching skills 


• Experience with requirements management 


• Ability to perform complicated trade-offs 


• Comfortable working with Microsoft office applications (word, excel, powerpoint) 

• Fluent in French and English


• Be eligible and registered to work within Europe.


• Be eligible and gain security clearance in France.

Desirable Skills 

• Good understanding of attitude and orbit control subsystem. 


• Experience of AIT activities 


• Experience of mission operations 


• Experience with STK, GMAT, IDM-CIC


• Experience with Python


• Experience with Visure


• Experience with FMECA 


• Experience working on ESA missions 

Core competencies

• Demonstrates behaviours in line with Astroscale values (mission and people focused, transparent, innovative and pioneering, diverse and customer focused).


• Proactive, able to build working relationships, mentoring & knowledge sharing
  

Location

Astroscale France (Toulouse), with some hybrid working

Note to recruitment agencies: Astroscale operates a preferred Supplier List, and we do not accept unsolicited agency approaches. Please do not forward candidate CVs or details in response to this advert, or to any Astroscale employee. 

About Astroscale   

Astroscale is the first private company with a vision to secure the safe and sustainable development of space for the benefit of future generations, and the only company dedicated to in-orbit servicing across all orbits. Founded in 2013, we are developing innovative and scalable solutions across the spectrum of in-orbit servicing missions, including End of Life services, Active Debris Removal, In-situ Space Situational Awareness and Life Extension Services, to create sustainable space systems and mitigate against the hazardous build-up of debris in space. 

We aim to deliver cutting edge technologies that will become part of routine commercial space operations by 2030.