Flight Operations Engineer

Flight Operations Engineer

Isar Aerospace

Ottobrunn, Germany

Mission Brief

As Flight Operations Engineer you will work within the Flight Operations and Licensing team, and you will perform tasks related to flight operations. The team deals with a wide range of topics, from mission and flight safety critical assessments, interfaces with range safety and telemetry antennas, up to supporting flight operations from the mission control room.

Your Role in Our Space Mission

• Manage the development of flight operations real time toolset (COLA services, weather assessments, antenna pointing etc.) and their interface with existing tools and APIs;
• Manage the processes for COLA, antenna pointing as well as flight monitoring;
• Support flight operations by managing pre and during flight procedures related to mission and safety critical systems;
• Manage mission configuration for mission critical and safety critical systems;
• Support the range and licensing related operational documentation preparation;
• Manage requirement definition for mission control infrastructure/software upgrades;
• Manage the training plan for Flight Operators that perform the flight monitoring for mission and safety critical operators;
• Define and maintain Crisis Management procedures for flight operations;
• Support mission management in provision of post flight reporting;
• Support the maintenance and development of ground segment (Telemetry, Data processing);
• Perform test and flight operations from the mission control.

The role will involve software development for real-time operations as well as operations preparation and execution. The ratio between the tasks is expected to be 50%-50% at regime.

Qualification Checklist

• Bachelor/master’s degree in aerospace engineering, Systems Engineering, Telecommunication Engineering or similar;
• Knowledge of orbital mechanics and launch vehicle flight trajectories;
• Knowledge of rocket systems/space systems engineering;
• Proven experience on Python/MATLAB/C++ or similar;
• Familiarity with version control systems (e.g., Git);
• At least 2 years of experience working in launch/flight operations related fields (real time software, GNC, ground segment, telemetry);
• Capability to work in control rooms in high stress environments;
• Capability of presenting complex issues in a clear and insightful manner;
• Highly organized with high attention to detail;
• Effective team player adjusting self-sufficiently and quickly to a changing work environment;
• Fluent English.

Bonus Skills

• Experience in interfacing with third party APIs;
• Experience with In Orbit Collision assessments (COLA services etc.);
• Experience with mission control tools.