Satellite Systems Engineer - Electrical

Location: Hybrid, Munich

Team & Reporting line:  Satellite Systems team, reporting to the Satellite Systems Lead

Our Mission 

We are seeking a highly motivated Satellite Systems Engineer with a strong electrical engineering background to join our spacecraft engineering team. You will oversee, co-ordinate, and perform system engineering activities on satellite level, as well as electrical subsystem level, ensuring the satellites are successfully realised all the way to launch. You will work closely with the satellite systems team, Product Assurance, Project Management, and the AIT teams, as well as external suppliers, turning mission concepts into robust, flight-ready systems.

This is a hands-on, high-impact role where you will get plenty of opportunities to grow your knowledge and skillset. Your work will directly influence the reliability, performance, and long-term success of constellr's mission.

Your Role:

As a Payload System Engineer, you’ll be part of the Mission and Space Systems team. You’ll collaborate daily with the other engineers of the team as well as the operations teams and external partners. Your role will be instrumental in both supporting the performance of our orbiting satellites by developing deep technical knowledge of our current payload, and shaping the future of our constellation by contributing to the design and development of our next-generation payload.

Key Responsibilities:

System Engineering Tasks:

• Serve as the technical point of contact between engineering, programme management, AIT, and Product Assurance.

• Serve as coordinator between AIT engineering and PA to ensure proper quality control and monitoring according to PA processes.

• Support project management with schedule planning and adherence, holding regular progress reviews with subcontractors.

• Coordinate the definition of requirements and ensure proper flow-down from mission to system and subsystem level, managing verification and close-out.

• Oversee the satellite system architecture and ensure subsystem interfaces are consistent and compatible.

• Oversee the work of subcontractors by reviewing and approving submitted designs, verifying compliance with technical requirements, industry regulations, and contractual obligations, and monitoring milestones for timely completion.

• Coordinate system-level technical reviews such as SRR, PDR, CDR, IRR, TRR, etc.

• Identify technical risks across the project, develop mitigation strategies, maintain the risk register alongside project managers, and prepare contingency plans.

• Plan and manage verification activities with the AIT teams, ensuring tests are conducted correctly, results are accurately reported, and final documentation is complete, accurate, and appropriately stored.

Electrical Engineering Tasks:

• Support the definition, design, testing, and verification of the satellite's electrical system architecture, ensuring subsystem interfaces are consistent and compatible.

• Work with thermal, structural, and payload engineering to ensure compatibility at the system level.

• Perform and support testing at subsystem, FlatSat, and satellite level, including reviewing test procedures, conducting tests, and evaluating test results.

• Ensure EMC/EMI compatibility at the subsystem and satellite level.