📍 Belval, Luxembourg | Full-time | On-site with occasional travel

We are looking for a Senior System Engineer to provide technical leadership, strategic guidance, and oversight for the development of spacecraft avionics and propulsion subsystems.

This is a senior leadership role where you’ll mentor engineers, review and optimize designs, guide manufacturing strategies, and support business development through market analysis and proposal contributions. You’ll play a key role in shaping cutting-edge NewSpace products through rapid development approaches.

🔧 What You’ll Do

• Lead and mentor the engineering team, ensuring technical excellence and best practices.
• Review designs, reports, and test plans for quality and compliance.
• Optimize manufacturing strategies, select suppliers, and improve production processes.
• Align subsystem designs with overall spacecraft architecture.
• Support testing and verification campaigns to ensure systems are space-ready.
• Contribute to market analysis and identify strategic applications for growth.
• Support business development through proposal writing and tender responses.
• Monitor industry trends to ensure competitiveness.

✅ What We’re Looking For

Essential:

• Strong background in spacecraft avionics, electronics, and systems engineering.
• Proven end-to-end product development experience (concept → qualification).
• Track record of guiding engineering teams and ensuring technical quality.
• Knowledge of system engineering, reliability, and verification processes.
• Experience with institutional actors, tenders, and proposals.
• Understanding of manufacturing processes and supplier selection.
• Excellent communication and organizational skills.
• Fluent in English.

Strongly Valued:

• Experience with space hardware qualification & ECSS standards.
• Knowledge of propulsion systems, testing, and verification.
• Hands-on experience with PCB design, embedded software, and power electronics.
• Familiarity with digital communication protocols (UART).
• Experience with test campaigns (TVAC, vibration, radiation, thermal).
• Strong problem-solving, decision-making, and quality management skills.
• Market analysis and supply chain management experience.

🌍 Why Join Us

• Play a central role in designing and delivering hardware that will fly in space.
• Join a growing team with a mandate to innovate and move fast.
• Work in Luxembourg, a welcoming international hub at the heart of Europe.
• Be part of a company where your work has a direct impact on future space missions.