Mission Engineer (m/f/d) Verified today
What you will do
- Conduct mission analysis for prospective and contracted launches, covering orbital mechanics, trajectory design, and payload accommodation
- Develop mission-design content, technical diagrams, and renders to support proposals and customer technical reviews
- Track suborbital and orbital launch opportunities relevant to HyImpulse's vehicle roadmap, flagging technical fit and constraints early
- Support the Sales Engineer and Bid Manager with technical inputs during proposal development, ensuring mission-design assumptions are accurate and defensible
- Interface with Headquarter engineering teams in Neuenstadt
- Maintain and refine mission-analysis tools and templates to speed up proposal turnaround
- Represent HyImpulse's technical mission-design capability in customer and partner technical meetings
- Take on site leadership duties, such as leading branch setup
Your background
- Degree in aerospace engineering or a closely related field, with a focus on orbital mechanics, astrodynamics, or mission design
- Demonstrated experience conducting mission or trajectory analysis, ideally in a launch-vehicle, satellite, or space-systems context
- Fluent German and English, sufficient for technical documentation and customer-facing discussion
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, comfortable working with incomplete or evolving customer requirements
- Ability to communicate complex technical mission-design concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences
- Comfortable working independently in a remote or branch-office setting with regular coordination back to Headquarter
Desired experience
- Hands-on experience with mission-analysis and orbit-propagation software
- Prior experience supporting proposals or bids for suborbital or orbital launch opportunities
- Familiarity with German or European institutional space programs (DLR, ESA, BMVg-related space activities)
- Experience with payload accommodation, separation systems, or launch-vehicle-to-payload interfaces
- Publication or research background in orbital mechanics, astrodynamics, or related fields
- Willingness to take on broader site-leadership responsibilities as the NRW branch grows
What we offer
- 30 days of vacation
- Flexible working hours
- 1 day of remote work per week
- 50 EUR monthly Spendit Card
- Christmas bonus
- Job bike leasing
- 60 EUR gift for special occasions
- Mobility allowance
- Regular team events
- Free coffee, tea and water
- Personal development opportunities through trainings, coaching and language courses
- Buddy program with structured onboarding and welcome package
- Work in a diverse, fast-growing New Space startup with hands-on involvement in end-to-end development