Senior Space Systems Engineer/Spacecraft Engineer

Senior Space Systems Engineer/Spacecraft Engineer

D-Orbit

Lomazzo, Italy

As an integral part of the group, you will be responsible of the customization of already flight-qualified platforms, such as the ION Satellite Carrier Vehicle, and the design of new advanced missions. Your ultimate objective as a systems engineer is to ensure your systems, the spacecraft, will fly safely to orbit, deliver the services required by mission objectives and eventually successfully accomplish its disposal.

Main Duties will consist of:

• Coordinate other systems and specialist engineers, following and consolidating the end-to-end design and development cycle of the systems platforms, starting the requirements capture and consolidating requirements as development progresses, trade-off analysis, systems architecture and design definition, definition of the verification and test campaign, test plan and procedures, supervising execution of the tests on first prototypes and final requirements compliance assessment.
• Interface with the Program Manager to support planning and management task.
• Coordinate with the Procurement team to support in the procurement process of test and flight parts.
• Coordinate with the manufacturing team and the AIV team for the definition of the test plan, procedures, setup and execution, monitor AIV progresses and maintain the requirement compliance matrix updated accordingly.
• Interface with the Flight Operations team to support the definition of the detailed ConOps, mission timeline, operations plan definition and procedures, and provide active support during the first flight operations.

Tasks and Responsibilities:

• Technical responsible for the overall spacecraft or mission.
• Actively contribute and monitor the development of systems architecture and subsystems design.
• Coordinate multidisciplinary teams of specialists working on the systems and s/s design.
• Systems and subsystems budgeting.
• Requirements capturing & management from Stakeholder to equipment level.
• AIV plan definition and execution with the support of the AIV team.
• Support the systems test plan, procedures, and setup definition.
• Authoring of Technical documents.

Professional Experience & Required Technical Skills:

• We are interested in speaking to people with a minimum of five years of experience working in the field of Spacecraft design and development.
• Strong knowledge of Space Systems Engineering and Space Systems Architectures.
• Systems-level knowledge of all spacecraft subsystems.
• Experience in the definition of systems budgets and trade-off analyses.
• Experience in satellite verification and validation approaches.
• Experience in planning and management task.
• Experience in procurement processes
• Experience in requirements management tools, e.g. DOORS or Jama.
• Basic knowledge of software development and configuration management, e.g. GIT or Bitbucket.

Nice-to-have skills:

• Experience in Institutional projects with ESA, ASI or other agencies.
• Knowledge of ECSS/NASA standards.
• Experience in Mission Analysis and usage of dedicated tools (e.g., STK, GMAT).
• Working experience in space transportation and servicing applications.
• Experience in carrying out tests in relevant space contexts (e.g., functional testing on EM, environmental test campaigns).
• Experience in launch campaign activities and interfacing with launch providers.
• Programming skills.
• Experience in MBSE.

Education:

• University degree preferably in the fields of Aerospace/Space Engineering.

Language:

• This role requires professional proficiency in English.

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