Space Segment Engineer

About the role

CS GROUP, together with HE Space and Sopra Steria, provides digital end-to-end systems and engineering services for space and defence organisations. This Space Segment Engineering position supports ESA in the design, development and verification of the space segment, based in Noordwijk, The Netherlands.

Key responsibilities

• Support space engineering, including industrial reviews and procurement, segment and subsystem-level support, and follow-up and review of the space segment architecture.
• Carry out requirements engineering and consolidation, functional and physical architecture definition, design trade-off analysis, interface definition and technical risk assessment.
• Support ESA in reviewing industrial contract technical milestones, such as the Requirements Review, Preliminary Design Reviews, Critical Design Reviews, Qualification Reviews, In-Orbit Validation Review, Service Declaration and others.
• Assess technical deliverables and prepare review comments.
• Produce technical notes, review item discrepancies, trade-off reports and contribute to design change notices for requirements changes.

Required profile

• Masters degree in Aerospace or a relevant discipline.
• Minimum 8 years of experience in Space Segment Engineering.
• Background in systems engineering, ground systems or space mission operations.
• Experience preparing and executing test procedures.
• Strong analytical, documentation and problem-solving skills, and English proficiency.