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    Astroscale U.S.

    Aerospace

    Space Systems Engineer (M/F)

    France, FranceHybridFull-time4+ yrs experience€49k – €55k / yearPosted 1mo ago
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    Job description

    Astroscale France is looking for a Space Systems Engineer to support the growth of our Toulouse office, and to help in the design and development of our new missions and projects.

    As a Space Systems Engineer you are central to the design of our missions.

    You will work as the mission architect, facilitating trade-offs across system design, requiring collaboration with sub systems engineers and project managers while balancing the needs of missions and steering the technical solutions towards an achievable conclusion.

    At Astroscale, our Systems Engineers are involved on a mission from beginning to end.  Starting with writing bids to customers, then developing and analysing the design during the early mission phases; you will be supporting testing during AIT (and leading system testing), during the launch campaign and finally assist with in-orbit commissioning of the satellite.

    It doesn't end there though! Even after the mission is in orbit, as a Systems Engineer you may be called upon at critical moments during the mission to provide guidance to the operations team.

    Responsibilities

    • Performing trade-off analysis
    • Performing analysis of the system design
    • Generate and maintain system level budgets (mass, power, data)
    • Generate and maintain the requirements and associated design & verification compliance
    • Prepare sub-system requirements specification to support procurement
    • Review and modify FDIR techniques, perform FMECA
    • Adapting the system design from existing mission architectures to meet the needs of the current work
    • Coordinating with the subsystem leads to understand their problems
    • Reviewing inputs from subsystem engineers or external partners and critiquing appropriately
    • Authoring and maintaining system level documents, e.g. CONOPS, V&V plan, System test plans
    • Presenting results of the above tasks to internal and external customers
    • Develop and maintain tooling to support system analysis
    • Assist with writing bids, developing and analysing designs during early phases and then continuing that support into the testing phase with AIT.
    • 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

    Experience and Qualifications

    Essential Skills

    • At least 4 years’ experience of space system engineering in a commercial environment
    • An understanding of all the critical subsystems that make up a satellite mission
    • Excellent communication skills
    • Excellent coaching skills
    • Experience with requirements management
    • Ability to perform complicated trade-offs
    • Comfortable working with Microsoft office applications (word, excel, powerpoint)
    • Fluent in French and English
    • Be eligible and registered to work within Europe.
    • Be eligible and gain security clearance in France.

    Desirable Skills 

    • Good understanding of attitude and orbit control subsystem.
    • Experience of AIT activities
    • Experience of mission operations
    • Experience with STK, GMAT, IDM-CIC
    • Experience with Python
    • Experience with Visure
    • Experience with FMECA
    • Experience working on ESA missions

    Core competencies

    • Demonstrates behaviours in line with Astroscale values (mission and people focused, transparent, innovative and pioneering, diverse and customer focused).
    • Proactive, able to build working relationships, mentoring & knowledge sharing

    Location

    Astroscale France (Toulouse), with some hybrid working

    What we offer

    At Astroscale, we believe that when people feel supported, they can focus on achieving extraordinary things.

    • Premium family health insurance (Mutuelle) 100% funded by the company
    • 100% employer-funded disability & life insurance coverage (Pervoyance)
    • Salary maintained from day one of sick leave
    • Hybrid working (up to 2 days remote per week)
    • Remote work allowance
    • Paid child sickness leave
    • Additional family and caregiving leave

    About Astroscale 

    Astroscale is the global leader in on-orbit servicing, dedicated to the secure and sustainable development of space. The company delivers a variety of innovative and scalable on-orbit servicing solutions, including life extension, refurbishment, upgrades, in-situ space situational awareness, end-of-life, and active debris removal. Since its first successful launch in March 2021, Astroscale has proven rendezvous and proximity operations technologies in orbit during the ELSA-d and ADRAS-J missions. Astroscale spacecraft have been selected for pioneering missions with JAXA, the U.S. Space Force, the European Space Agency, the UK Space Agency, and Eutelsat. As more satellite operators adopt on-orbit servicing to routinely inspect, relocate, remove, and extend the life of spacecraft, the potential of a circular space economy — and a future of no waste in space — is being unlocked. Headquartered in Japan, Astroscale has a global presence with subsidiaries in the United Kingdom, the United States, France, and Israel. Find out more about Astroscale at www.astroscale.com. 

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    About the company

    Astroscale U.S.

    Astroscale U.S. is dedicated to the global Astroscale vision of ensuring the safe and sustainable development of space for future generations.  Astroscale U.S. Inc. is a leading provider of on-orbit servicing solutions — including inspection, transportation, life extension, debris removal and refueling — for the U.S. government and commercial operators around the world. Headquartered in Denver, Colorado, Astroscale U.S. applies world-class rendezvous, proximity operations and docking capabilities, mission design, policy, and economics expertise to solve the complex challenges our customers face.    Astroscale U.S. Inc. is currently seeking a Rendezvous & Proximity Operations (RPO) Team Lead to join our team in our Denver, Colorado location. The RPO Team provides a range of technical capability to programs across Astroscale U.S., spanning Guidance, Navigation and Control (GNC), Modeling & Simulation (M&S), and Flight Dynamics (FD). In this role you will be a member of the engineering leadership, integral to developing the on-orbit servicing solutions that will deliver our vision of a sustainable space environment.

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