Senior Mission Analysis Engineer

Quick Facts

Mission analysis role focused on early-phase mission design, orbital maneuvers, feasibility studies, and system trade-offs.

Description

You’ll work on mission analysis (lifetime, coverage, revisit time, performance assessments), orbital maneuver planning and trajectory optimization, and early-phase mission design and concept development. You will conduct feasibility studies for new mission concepts and system-level trade-off studies to support key design decisions, presenting results to clients, consortium partners, and ESAC. You will collaborate closely with system engineers and domain experts (AOCS, mechanical, thermal, electronics, etc.) and build/improve internal tools (primarily in Python).

Responsibilities

• Mission analysis (lifetime, coverage, revisit time, performance assessments)
• Orbital maneuver planning and trajectory optimization
• Early-phase mission design and concept development
• Feasibility studies for new mission concepts
• System-level trade-off studies for key design decisions
• Present results to clients, consortium partners, and ESAC
• Collaborate with system engineers and domain experts (AOCS, mechanical, thermal, electronics, etc.)
• Build and improve internal tools (primarily in Python)

Requirements

• Strong initiative and hands-on problem-solving mindset
• Broad engineering curiosity and willingness to learn across domains
• Basic understanding of orbital mechanics and systems engineering
• Experience with Python
• At least 5 years of professional experience in Mission Analysis

Nice to Have

• Experience with STK or similar tools (GMAT, FreeFlyer)
• Familiarity with astrodynamics libraries (Orekit, Astropy, Poliastro)

Benefits

• Real impact on cutting-edge space missions
• Fast learning curve and rapid skill development
• Small, highly capable, and collaborative team
• Exposure to projects and experience that are hard to find elsewhere in the market