Senior System Engineer (Ground Systems Hardware) Verified today

Why this role matters

As a Senior System Engineer (Ground Systems Hardware), you'll design and validate mission-critical ground hardware systems that enable ICEYE's satellite operations, ensuring performance, reliability, and scalability across demanding environments.

About ICEYE

ICEYE delivers space-based intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) capabilities to governments and allied nations using world-leading synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellite technology. The company operates the world's largest SAR satellite constellation, enabling partners to detect and respond to critical changes anywhere on Earth with unprecedented speed and accuracy, day or night and in any weather. ICEYE is headquartered in Finland with over 900 employees operating globally across Europe, North America, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific.

Your responsibilities

• Design, integrate, and validate ground hardware systems at system level
• Define and maintain hardware specifications, interfaces, and performance requirements
• Conduct system modeling and identify design gaps and improvement opportunities
• Own validation and acceptance testing, including test plans, setups, and final sign-off
• Collaborate with product, systems, manufacturing, and operations teams to align designs with requirements
• Ensure documentation accuracy, configuration control, and version management
• Apply expertise in compute, power, and environmental systems to ensure reliability in operations
• Drive continuous improvement of integration and testing processes

Required experience and skills

• 5 to 8+ years of experience in systems engineering for hardware-based products
• Strong experience with virtualization technologies such as VMware, including vSAN and HCI
• Strong networking knowledge including switches, VLANs, routing, and firewalls
• Experience with storage systems such as Cloudian or Dell, including object storage concepts
• Experience with server hardware platforms and rack-level design considerations
• Strong background in hardware integration, validation, and environmental testing
• Experience defining and managing technical specifications and system interfaces
• Strong documentation, configuration management, and communication skills in English

Desirable experience

• Experience with edge compute platforms and on-premise deployments
• Familiarity with ruggedized hardware and environmental compliance testing
• Experience with system modeling tools or requirements management systems
• Understanding of ground systems, mission operations, or ISR architectures
• Experience in satellite, earth observation, or defense systems

Role details

Location: Espoo, Finland / Warsaw, Poland

Department: Platform & Release Engineering

Reports to: Platform & Release Engineering Lead

Employment type: Permanent

Workplace model: Hybrid / Office

Employment is subject to applicable security screening (incl. SUPO)

Application process

• Recruiter screening
• Hiring manager interview
• Technical task
• Technical panel interview
• Final interview