Description
Job Overview
As a Systems Engineer - Space at Helsing, you will play a crucial role in turning mission and spacecraft design problems into models, tools, and trade studies for the constellation programme. You will act as a technical expert on satellite and mission design, challenging partner and supplier designs alongside your own analysis work.
Responsibilities
- Run mission analysis for constellation design, including orbit selection, revisit and coverage, or launch and disposal.
- Own requirements flowdown, system budgets (mass, power, link), and interfaces between segments.
- Build and maintain analysis tooling to production standards.
- Act as a technical expert for satellite system design, including subsystems.
- Drive trade studies across subsystems and segments, presenting results to internal teams, partners, and customers.
Requirements
- Master's or PhD in aerospace engineering, physics, or a related field, with hands-on work on at least one flown or near-flight space programme.
- Fluency in orbit mechanics and mission analysis, with tools such as GMAT, FreeFlyer, STK, or Orekit.
- Working grasp of spacecraft systems engineering across requirements, budgets, interfaces, and verification.
- Recognised depth in at least one subsystem, such as AOCS and GNC, propulsion, power, thermal, or TT&C and RF.
- Several years of production-grade software work in a large, shared codebase, with code review, continuous integration, testing, and documentation.
- Strong mathematics and physics skills, including linear algebra, numerical methods, and error budgets.
- Fluent in English and German.
Nice to Have
- Optimisation background: convex and mixed-integer methods, evolutionary or heuristic approaches, or trajectory and scheduling optimisation.
- Model-based systems engineering, such as SysML or Capella, or digital twin experience.
- Machine learning applied to engineering problems, such as surrogate models for costly simulations.
- Earth observation, SAR, or ISR mission experience.
- Familiarity with ECSS standards and requirements management tooling.
Benefits
- Competitive salary and VSOP options
- Relocation support: up to €2,500 and 4 weeks temporary accommodation
- Learning: €500/£450 yearly allowance
- Health & wellness: gym membership and mental health support (Nilo.health)
- Social: regularly company events and monthly social allowances
- Enhanced parental leave: 22 weeks fully paid for primary caregivers & 6 weeks for secondary caregivers
- Family support: 5 days of paid family emergency leave, 100% remote work option during pregnancy and phased return to work