Senior System Engineer

ClearSpace

Senior Systems Engineer supporting the full technical development of satellite missions from concept to launch. Leading system-level activities and ensuring technical consistency across subsystems in a hybrid environment.

Posted 5/17/2026full-timeLuxembourg • 🇱🇺 LuxembourgSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Assembly

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Support the full technical development of satellite missions—from early concept and requirements through to launch and in-orbit commissioning
Coordinate system-level activities, manage interfaces, and ensure technical consistency across subsystems
Maintain control of the system baseline and engineering documentation
Participate in technical activities planning, including technical schedule and cost
Manage core SE elements such as functional analysis, concept of operations, mission analysis, system modes, specification tree and requirements, interfaces and engineering database
Participate in risk, opportunity and resolution plans
Oversee sub-systems and software design, ensuring management and control of interfaces
Provide technical input to Product Assurance activities
Lead technical assessments, trade-offs, baseline definition and maintenance, budgets
Write and maintain engineering documentation
Manage system technical baseline and ensure change control
Ensure development and validation planning for system, spacecraft and Ground Segment in line with technical and programmatic constraints
Follow implementation phase ensuring successful execution of AIV/T phase
Support Launch and In orbit commissioning
Consolidate and iterate on the system engineering process at a company-wide level

Requirements

What you’ll need

(BSc/MSc) Degree in Aerospace, Engineering, Physics or similar
+10 Years' experience in spacecraft industry
Experience in decomposition of system requirements, trade studies and sizing/error budget development for a Spacecraft system
Familiarity with the full space program lifecycle, from business development, proposal generation and contract negotiations, all the way through design, development, assembly, test and successful delivery
Confidence with leading multidisciplinary project teams
Highly organized, capable of tracking multiple streams of critical activities at once

Benefits

Comp & perks

Flexible work arrangements

ATS Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools

system engineeringfunctional analysisconcept of operationsmission analysisspecification treerequirements managementinterfaces managementengineering documentationrisk managementAIV/T phase execution

Soft Skills

leadershiporganizational skillsproject managementcommunicationcoordinationtechnical assessmentproblem-solvingmultidisciplinary teamworkplanningtracking activities

Certifications

BSc DegreeMSc Degree