System Engineer Mechatronics

System Engineer Mechatronics

Beyond Gravity

Zürich, Switzerland

Your Crew

You’ll be part of BG’s Spacecraft Mechatronics System Engineering team of 10 engineers, as well as our broader Zurich-based engineering department with its skilled design engineers, analysts, electrical engineers, test engineers, and materials and process engineers. We’re a multidisciplinary, intercultural, energetic and goal-oriented team, working every day to deliver the most competitive spacecraft products for the European and world-wide space markets, and to deliver the most aspiring space exploration technology to large ESA and NASA missions. With us, you’ll have the chance to learn from and work with top experts and >50 years of spacecraft company know how, while contributing your innovative ideas and implementation skills to help us grow – and goBeyond!

Your Mission

• Be the technical responsible for one of our mechatronic spacecraft systems - from recurring products for large satellite constellations (such as solar array drives, antenna pointing mechanisms, or dampers) to new developments for state-of-the-art space exploration;
• Lead a technical project team of highly skilled experts from analysis/testing/electrical engineering/design/materials and processes;
• Work with the project team to assess customer needs, generate ideas, optimize solutions, and solve problems – all to create value for our customers by delivering on quality, time, and cost. This includes:
  • Prepare component specifications and work with our suppliers;
  • Coordinate design and analysis activities; but also conduct engineering work yourself;
  • Support production and test activities, and evaluate test results;
  • Establish and review complex technical documentation and data packs;
  • Support and negotiate with customers in regular technical meetings and reviews.

Your Story

• You have a MSc or equivalent degree preferably in Mechatronics, Mechanical, or Aerospace Engineering;
• At least 3 years of relevant job experience in mechatronics engineering for demanding applications such as aerospace, vacuum, scientific instruments, MedTech …;
• Generalist: Used to work with equations as much as with people;
• Hands-on mentality: You have previously turned designs into hardware, and have mastered production and test challenges along the way;
• Operational drive: Proven ability to deliver efficiently in an industrial operations setting – with strong focus on cost, schedule, quality, and regulated processes and standards;
• Able to work under temporary phases of high schedule pressure, while still establishing an atmosphere that fosters productivity and makes working fun;
• In-depth knowledge of the following is an asset: Spacecraft components (especially motors, gears, bearings) and relevant standards, System Engineering Methods, data analysis, environmental testing;
• Our working language is English. Knowledge of German is an asset.