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The Exploration Company · Bordeaux, France · Production · first seen 2026-07-16
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The Exploration Company is building spacecraft for humanity. We are looking for a Mission Assurance Engineer to own the end-to-end strategy that ensures our spacecraft is safe, reliable, and mission ready. You will be embedded with the design, test, and operations teams, driving the vehicle safety architecture while relentlessly driving risk down and availability up.

Key Responsibilities

  • Own the vehicle safety architecture and ensure it meets all safety and reliability requirements, including ISS program, ESA, and CNES entry safety standards.
  • Assess pre-flight risks and potential mitigations in partnership with vehicle design, analysis, and operations teams.
  • Perform and review FMECA, FTA, PRA, and RAM analyses to identify risks and failure modes.
  • Define and validate the spacecraft fault management and FDIR architecture.
  • Work with avionics, software, and operations teams to implement fault management strategies and ensure safe behavior under off-nominal conditions.
  • Support on-console operations as the Mission Assurance representative and drive in-flight anomaly resolution. Feed lessons learned back into design and FDIR improvements.
  • Champion a culture of mission assurance through first-principles thinking, disciplined verification, and data-driven decision-making.
  • Report to program leadership on RAMS status, residual risk, and flight readiness.
  • Drive corrective actions from anomalies, test failures, and operational events into design improvements.

Requirements

  • Master's degree in an engineering or science discipline.
  • Proficiency with reliability tools such as FMECA, FTA, and reliability block diagrams.
  • Understanding of fault tolerance, redundancy management, and failure detection/isolation/recovery.
  • Technical knowledge of spacecraft systems and operations including communications, orbital mechanics, avionics, propulsion, thermal control, and life support systems.
  • Strong written and verbal communication of technical information.
  • Ability to manage projects and tasks while meeting aggressive deadlines.
  • Resilience under pressure when facing technical challenges.
  • Excellent organizational and interpersonal skills.

Bonus Qualifications

  • Experience developing and validating FDIR logic, watchdog strategies, and fault response sequences.
  • Previous experience in a customer-facing role working through design requirements, test acceptance, and verification with government customers such as CNES, ESA, or NASA.
  • Passion for advancing the commercial space industry and human spaceflight.