Loftorbital
Satellite Systems Engineer
Abu Dhabi. Posted 10 days ago
The role
You will act as the senior engineer and technical reference for one or several satellite missions at the same time. You will lead system development work with the mission manager and the Orbitworks and Loft teams, using flight-proven satellite buses and Loft-designed payload hub infrastructure.
What you will do
- Develop and manage system requirements and verification techniques with customers, and flow them down to software or hardware teams.
- Develop interface specifications and derive overall satellite architecture and design with team members.
- Develop and maintain technical budgets for spacecraft performance with product and subsystem engineers.
- Develop mission CONOPS with flight operations and support Service Level Agreements with Loft's customers.
- Assist with program and product management, including customer contact on programmatic and scheduling matters.
- Support test procedures and take part in integration, test campaigns, launch and in-orbit commissioning.
Required qualifications
- 10 years or more of demonstrated experience as a spacecraft or satellite systems engineer, or equivalent experience in at least two subsystems (ADCS, Mechanical, Thermal, Power, Avionics, ...).
- Experience in satellite assembly, integration and test campaigns from a systems perspective and/or spacecraft delivery to orbit.
- Challenges norms in aerospace engineering and testing and is experienced in a fast-paced development environment.
- Handles pressure positively and is ready to get hands-on.
- Strong communication and organizational skills.
Nice to have
- Experience working on small sats (less than 500kg).
- Experience in electrical subsystems.
- Proficient with STK.
- Knowledge of Python.
- International experience.
About the company
Orbitworks aims to make space simple for organizations that want to deploy physical and virtual missions to space. It will be the first commercial firm in the United Arab Emirates to mass-manufacture satellites, aiming for tens of satellites annually.