Location: Oxford, United Kingdom
Thales people architect and deliver satellite-based systems that help position, connect and observe our planet, and push the boundaries of our understanding of planet's resources. Our systems are in orbit at 400 km, 20000 km, 36000 km and beyond to the edges of the solar system.
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Systems Engineer - Thales Alenia Space
You'll be supporting the design and integration of payloads, satellites, sub-systems and instruments for government and commercial customers, working closely with institutional, industrial and academic partners. You'll define, plan and support the integrated technical effort across all engineering disciplines.
Thales Alenia Space are working on a number of current and future products for customers including the European Space Agency, such as the Copernicus CO2M programme. You'll have a chance to work on the development of new technology to support future bid work, as well as the development and integration of existing products to be flown on upcoming flight missions.
Day to Day your role will include:
- Product development and systems engineering at instrument level
- Hardware Architecture for spacecraft instruments
- Leading requirements management, system design, development, testing, and verification
- Ensuring technical integration and coherence of systems design, interfaces, and performance
- Collaborating with Engineering, Quality, Supply Chain, Purchasing, Bid & Project Management departments
- Coordinating technical activities with our suppliers and sub-contractors
- Carrying out customer and internal project reviews, managing projects schedules, identifying risk, and proposing mitigation activities
- Performing test campaigns on prototype hardware
What we're looking for from you:
- Experience in systems engineering or IVVQ activities (ideally in the space industry, although that isn't essential)
- Degree or Masters degree qualified (or equivalent experience) in relevant engineering field such as Electronics/ Aeronautics/ Space Engineering/ Computer Science)
- Willingness to strengthen your expertise in concept definition, requirements management, development, test, integration, and validation
- Ideally knowledge of tools such as DOORS, JIRA, Matlab, LabView
What kind of person will succeed in this role?
We're looking for you to be rigorous and logic, open minded and curious. You'll need to be able to solve complex problems by gaining a strong understanding of the system you're working on, and be able to adapt and react to change. Working closely with a supportive team, we want you to collaborate and innovate in what is a challenging environment.
Location:
The position is based in Harwell, Oxfordshire. We operate a hybrid approach to on-site and remote working.
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