Mission Technical Lead/ Senior Systems Engineer

Working for Open Cosmos

Aim high, go beyond!

At Open Cosmos we are solving the world’s biggest challenges from space, providing businesses, governments and researchers access to more readily available information than ever before - ready for the challenge? Then read on… 

Working in the systems Team

The successful candidate will be joining Open Cosmos’ systems team and will be responsible to technically manage the development and implementation of satellite missions to fulfil the company needs. The project you will be working on aims to deploy and operate a new constellation concept of three identical 16U gravity-gradient stabilised nanosatellites for investigating both the Earth’s magnetic field and the ionospheric environment. It will also provide new science opportunities thanks to its innovative constellation design and miniaturised payload.

What will you be doing?

The following reflects Open Cosmos definition of essential deliverables and activities for this job but does not restrict the tasks that may be assigned. Open Cosmos may assign or reassign duties and responsibilities to this job at any time due to reasonable accommodation or other reasons:

• Lead the delivery of space missions being the mission technical responsible.

• Coordinate the technical team as per project needs in order to ensure the activities are progressing as planned and requirements are met

• Interface with customers/suppliers/subcontractors to what concerns technical topics, monitor their progress from the technical point of view to ensure the design meets mission requirements and raise any non-conformances or deviations as necessary

• Monitor technical activities to meet project deadlines and milestones, ensure technical documentation is delivered on time to support project milestones

• Identify non-conformances and deviations and report to Project Manager/ Quality Manager

• Assess the impact of non-conformances and deviations from the technical point of view and manage the process both internally and externally

• Coordinate the technical and design reviews of 3rd party units or subcontractors as well as any other technical related topics to ensure mission requirements are met.

• Review and Approve design related documents or any other technical document as required.

• Provide updates to the planning/schedule as activities get progressed on a regular basis.

• Produce and manage requirements and verification plans; perform system level analysis, calculations and trade-offs.

• Deliver FMECA and FDIR analysis.

• Support in the AIT/AIV phases of the missions.

• Perform hands-on testing for anomaly debugging on flight hardware, both on ground testing and in-orbit during LEOP, commissioning and operations.

• Support bid work, sales team, mission and operations teams, customer support or any other teams within the company with technical information and documentation.

• Commit to fulfil customer requirements and expectations and manage communication with partners and suppliers.

What you need to be successful

We’re more interested in what you can do than being dogmatic about your background! We’d love to take a look at your CV even if you’re not sure you tick all the boxes.

• You will need strong knowledge of all aspects of the subsystems and mission to enable independent decision making and continuous improvement programmes

• As we said, you’ll be delivering a space mission so strong knowledge of satellite systems engineering is essential, ideally you would have seen the full cycle of a space mission from conception to end of life.

• You’ll be performing mission analysis and system design, so be ready to manage requirements and utilize MBSE tools, implement FMECA and design FDIR, manage system budgets and define CONOPs.

• To coordinate other technical teams involved in the design process you should have a good knowledge of the satellite subsystems: power system, on-board data handling, AOCS, comms, propulsion, mechanical, thermal.

• You’ll be communicating a lot, so be confident in speaking, listening and writing, sometimes within large groups including customers.

• Our Company operates in a dynamic environment, so be ready to adapt to change and learn quickly.

• You'll be managing other people so the ability to coach and motivate colleagues, enabling them to achieve their full potential is key.

What we offer:

• Prefer to mostly WFH, that's fine! Need to take 30 mins at 3pm to get the kids from school? Go ahead!
  We're more interested in your contributions than when and where you're working.
• 25 Days holiday in addition to national holidays.
• Enhanced parental leave.