Space Systems Engineer

• End-to-end mission exposure: You will take part in the design of complete satellite systems and payloads, from early concepts to mission-ready architectures.
• Specialised technical challenges: Depending on your background, you will contribute to satellite system design and engineering or to the development and integration of advanced optical and optomechanical systems for space applications.
• System-level engineering responsibility: Work on satellite architecture, subsystem integration, launcher compatibility, optical payload design, and engineering trade-offs across different missions.
• Cross-disciplinary growth: Collaborate with AIT, operations, thermal, and flight dynamics teams, gaining a broad space engineering perspective.
• High technical ownership: Contribute to key design decisions and system-level technical definitions for SATLANTIS missions, third-party projects, and R&D activities.
• Flexible growth path: Whether you are starting your career or bringing years of experience, you will benefit from an onboarding and learning period that will help you progressively take on new responsibilities.
• Purpose-driven space projects: Your work will directly contribute to Earth observation missions with real impact on science, technology, and sustainability.

At SATLANTIS, we create advanced Earth observation technologies designed to address global challenges through high-performance satellite missions. From concept design to mission operations, our teams work on complete space systems that combine innovation, precision, and real-world impact.

We are looking to welcome two Space Systems Engineers to our team, each bringing a different engineering background: one focused on Aerospace Engineering and satellite systems design, and another with a background in Optical Engineering and the design of optical and optomechanical systems.

Your mission will be to contribute to the design and management of satellite systems and payloads, ensuring that engineering solutions are technically robust, mission-ready, and aligned with launch and operational constraints.

By combining system-level thinking with specialised engineering expertise, you will help transform mission concepts into real spacecraft operating in orbit, contributing to technologies that observe and help us better understand our planet.

You will:

• Design satellite concepts and payload systems, contributing to system budgets, architectures, component selection, CAD, optical or optomechanical design where applicable, and compliance with launcher requirements.
• Coordinate and contribute to engineering teams responsible for the design and execution of Earth observation satellite missions and payloads for SATLANTIS, third-party customers, and R&D projects.
• Support in-orbit satellite operations, learning to assess spacecraft health through telemetry, perform image acquisitions, and contribute to operational activities such as propulsion tasks.

Depending on your interests, engineering background, and experience, you may also contribute to:

• Assembly, Integration & Test: Collaborate in satellite and payload assembly, integration, and testing activities.
• Flight Dynamics: Contribute to mission analysis and flight dynamics engineering tasks.
• Thermal Engineering: Participate in thermal design and analysis at satellite system and instrument subsystem levels.

If you are motivated by complex engineering challenges, multidisciplinary collaboration, and the opportunity to contribute to real Earth observation missions, SATLANTIS is the place to grow your career.

Whether your expertise lies in aerospace systems or optical engineering, join us and help shape the future of space systems.