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About Aerospacelab
Aerospacelab designs and manufactures small satellites combined with earth observation services. Founded in 2018, the company has grown to over 25 engineers. By 2026, Aerospacelab will operate offices in Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium), Toulouse (France), Lausanne (Switzerland) and US West Coast, with over 350 full-time employees, positioning itself as the European leader in small satellites.
Role overview
As a Satellite Systems Engineer, you will lead the technical development of satellites and platforms from early concepts to in-orbit deployment. Working closely with project managers, you will find technical solutions that are simultaneously faster, better, and cheaper by leveraging Aerospacelab's vertical integration and mass-manufacturing capabilities.
You can specialise in one of three mission types:
- In-Orbit Demonstrator development for first-time satellite customers, primarily Earth-Observation missions
- Constellation-scale development for established operators, primarily Telecommunication missions
- In-orbit follow-up of flying missions to feed flight data back into platform and unit design
Duties
- Define overall architecture and satellite design meeting mission objectives, including system requirements, budgets, subsystem selection, trade-offs and integration
- Manage technical risks proactively and pragmatically
- Act as chief engineer, coordinating satellite development across subsystems and domains, ensuring system consistency and information sharing
- Work with internal unit development teams to improve overall industrial efficiency
- Support test procedures, integration, test campaigns, launch and in-orbit commissioning
- Support project management including customer interface, configuration management and development plans
Requirements
- At least 8 years professional experience in satellite engineering, either as a systems engineer or in a discipline requiring full-system understanding (AOCS, Mechanical/Structural, Thermal, Power or Avionics)
- Excellent communication skills, both oral and written
- Strong organizational abilities
- Problem-solving mindset with ability to make technical decisions despite incomplete information and risk
- Willingness to challenge the European space industry status quo
Nice to have
- Experience with telecom payloads
- Hands-on satellite assembly, integration and test campaign experience