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# Spacecraft Systems Engineer

- **Company:** Astroscale
- **Location:** Didcot, UK
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Salary:** £40,000.0 - £70,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Systems Engineering, Python (Programming Language), MATLAB, Microsoft Office, Microsoft PowerPoint, Reliability Engineering, Systems Architecture, System Testing
- **Published:** August 20, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.adzuna.co.uk/jobs/details/5849681055

## About the Role

* At least 2 years' experience in satellite system engineering
 * An understanding of all the critical subsystems that make up a satellite mission
 * Excellent communication skills
 * Experience with requirements derivation, verification and traceability
 * Ability to perform complicated trade-offs
 * Comfortable working with Microsoft Office applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)

Desirable Skills:

 * Good understanding of attitude and orbit control subsystem.
 * Experience of satellite level AIT
 * Exposure to system FFTs, STB, TMTC and MIB activities
 * Experience of mission operations
 * Experience with GMAT, Orekit
 * Python/MATLAB or analysis tooling
 * Experience with FMECA, FDIR, fault-tree analysis or reliability engineering
 * Experience working on ESA missions

## Description

As a Systems Engineer you are central to the design of our missions. You will work as the technical architect, facilitating trade-offs across system design, requiring collaboration with subsystem engineers and project managers, while balancing the needs of missions and steering the missions towards achievable technical solutions.

Responsibilities

Main Technical Responsibilities

 * Development of spacecraft mission and system designs.
 * Support requirements derivation, allocation, verification and traceability activities.
 * Perform system-level trade studies using engineering analysis and judgement.
 * Generate and maintain spacecraft technical budgets including mass, power, data and propellant.
 * Authoring and maintaining system level documents including CONOPS, V&V plans, DDVPs, ICDs and other system engineering artefacts.
 * System-level interface management and control, including space-to-ground / TMTC / ICD ownership.
 * Supporting system validation and spacecraft test-bed activities, including MIB/TMTC/test evidence where relevant.
 * Contribute to mission-level FDIR, FMECA and fault tree activities.
 * Coordinate engineering activities across subsystem engineering teams.
 * Perform system-level design assessments to establish compliance with requirements.
 * Support spacecraft integration, verification and environmental test campaigns.
 * Present technical analyses and trade results to internal and external stakeholders.
 * Support bid work, proposal preparation and early mission studies.

Wider Responsibilities

 * Support project reviews including SRR, PDR, CDR, TRR and related milestones.
 * Assist operations and commissioning teams during mission-critical phases.
 * Once a mission is launched you will assist with in-orbit commissioning of satellites and should be ready to support the spacecraft operations team with guidance during critical moments


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