Team Leader – Space Industry

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Team Leader leading a multidisciplinary engineering team for a European space technology company. Overseeing projects, mentoring engineers, and serving as the main technical interface with customers.

Posted 6/24/2026full-timeAthens • 🇬🇷 GreeceSenior💰 €39,000 - €45,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Python

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Lead and mentor a small, multidisciplinary engineering team; plan weekly workload, oversee progress, and support growth and performance. (Covers people leadership, staffing, development.)
Serve as the main technical interface with customers, with weekly touchpoints to capture and challenge needs, run technical discussions/workshops, and align on solutions.
Translate customer needs into clear, traceable system‑level requirements and high‑level solution concepts and draft architectures.
Contribute hands‑on to selected projects (e.g., architecture, requirements, mission analysis, software V&V), ensuring quality and delivery.
Establish / improve practices and toolchains for requirements management, software V&V, and team workflows; champion continuous improvement. (Process responsibility and tool/process introduction are core expectations for our TLs.)
Support proposals and reviews; help prepare and attend technical meetings, milestones, and audits with customers and partners.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Experience: 1+ year in a similar leadership role or 5+ years in the space domain (industry or research) with responsibility for a project or workstream.
Technical depth (space systems):
Space Systems engineering: requirements engineering, mission analysis, understanding, basic satellite telecommunication, software architecture fundamentals; software V&V is a plus and expected to grow.
Standards: Familiarity with ECSS.
Leadership & communication: Able to lead small teams, mentor engineers, challenge and refine requirements, and communicate clearly with customers and partners (concise written/spoken English).
Education: MSc in Aerospace, Electrical/Electronics, Computer Science, Physics, or equivalent.
Nice‑to‑have qualifications:
ESA/EC project experience; ECSS lifecycle practice; MBSE (SysML/Cameo/Capella); Python/automation/CI/CD for V&V; SDR/RF chain exposure; experience in startups/scale‑ups; languages: Greek (plus), German/French.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Base Salary €39K/yr - €45K/yr depending on level of experience, can be negotiated for senior profiles
Real leadership responsibilities and meaningful hands‑on engineering.
Collaborative, high‑trust culture that values initiative, asking questions early, and taking calculated risks.
Private health insurance
Flexible hours
Remote work on a case‑by‑case basis
Training/certification budget
Business travel opportunities
Benefit vouchers

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Hard Skills & Tools

requirements engineeringmission analysissatellite telecommunicationsoftware architecturesoftware V&VPythonCI/CDMBSESysMLCameo

Soft Skills

leadershipmentoringcommunicationteam managementcustomer engagementconcise writingproblem-solvingcollaborationcontinuous improvementtechnical discussions