Working Student - Launch Vehicle Design (m/f/d) Verified today
Your Role
As a Launch Vehicle Working Student in the Reusability Program, you support the engineering team in preliminary design and coordination of reusability experiments. You translate Spectrum test insights into architecture-level performance assessments, design constraints and development targets.
Your responsibilities include:
- Reusability upgrade system design: architectural design constrained by mission objectives, pre-existing architecture and available components
- Support program-level decisions by delivering structured results, trade-offs and data-driven recommendations
- Perform preliminary sizing of structural interfaces, instrumentation layouts, actuator systems and mechanisms
- Interface with Launch Vehicle Structures and AIT departments on system requirements, avionics system capabilities and instrumentation
- Define requirements for ground test rigs and instrumentation setups
- Analyse test data and document results
- Support rapid prototyping and testing activities
Requirements
- Currently enrolled in Aerospace Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Mechatronics or comparable STEM programme
- Practical experience in multidisciplinary hardware development, with understanding of interfaces between structural design, vehicle design, avionics and AIT
- Proficiency in CAD and foundational knowledge of structural design and FEM
- Programming skills and ability to develop practical tools for engineering, testing or data analysis
- Hands-on, proactive and adaptable working style, able to manage changing tasks and priorities
- Strong communication and teamwork skills, fluency in English
Bonus Skills
- Experience with structural sizing, FEM analysis or design of load-bearing components and interfaces
- Exposure to manufacturing, assembly, integration and test processes, or participation in a student engineering team
Benefits
- Subsidised lunch
- Flexible mobility budget (Deutschlandticket or fuel allowance)
- Sport Clubs membership (EGYM Wellpass)
- Free snacks and drinks
- Physical and mental well-being support via OpenUp (certified psychologists and lifestyle experts)
About Isar Aerospace
Isar Aerospace is building modern space launch solutions to enable faster, better and cheaper access to space. We provide sustainable and environmentally friendly launch services for small and medium-sized satellites and constellations into Low Earth Orbit. The company is privately funded by leading technology investors and staffed by driven, talented people with a passion for space innovation.