About this role
Role Overview
- Contributing to the design and development of spacecraft propulsion subsystems across multiple Open Cosmos missions
- Supporting propulsion architecture definition, including thruster selection, tank sizing, feed systems, and control strategies
- Performing propulsion performance analysis (delta-V budgets, propellant mass, thrust modelling, manoeuvre simulations with AOCS)
- Leading and contributing to trade-off studies across propulsion technologies, configurations, and suppliers
- Defining, managing, and tracing propulsion requirements at system and subsystem level
- Developing verification and validation plans, including qualification and acceptance testing strategies
- Supporting environmental, functional, and performance testing of propulsion hardware during AIT campaigns
- Contributing to FMECA and FDIR strategies, identifying and mitigating propulsion-related risks
- Supporting the integration of propulsion hardware into spacecraft platforms (mechanical, thermal, electrical, software interfaces)
- Acting as the technical focal point for propulsion suppliers, ensuring compliance and delivery to requirements
- Supporting anomaly investigations during AIT and in-orbit operations
- Contributing to mission concept studies, bids, design reviews, and propulsion CONOPS development
Requirements
- Strong knowledge of spacecraft propulsion systems, including electric and/or chemical architectures
- Ability to work confidently with propulsion schematics and system diagrammatics
- Solid understanding of orbital mechanics, manoeuvre planning, and delta-V analysis
- Proficiency in propulsion performance modelling, simulation tools, and analytical methods
- Understanding of propulsion system components, including thrusters, tanks, feed systems, valves, and control electronics
- Knowledge of spacecraft subsystem interfaces, particularly AOCS, power, thermal, structures, and software
- Familiarity with ECSS standards, system budgets, margin management, and verification philosophy
- Working knowledge of FMECA, reliability engineering, and FDIR principles
- Understanding of AIT, MAIT, and environmental testing approaches in a spacecraft development context
- Awareness of propellant handling principles, safety constraints, contamination control, and cleanroom practices
- Awareness of the global propulsion supplier landscape and available product ranges
Benefits
- Diverse, ambitious, and supportive team
- Work at the cutting edge of space technology with customers around the globe
- A mission-driven company making space accessible to help solve real-world challenges