Job Description
The selected individual will work on various small satellite missions within the Space Missions area of the company, specifically within the System Engineering group. This area is responsible for conducting all tasks related to extracting requirements from users, culminating in the final design of the satellite. Throughout this process, the individual will participate in several activities such as preliminary mission budgets, satellite subsystem design, the concept of operations, and related mission analyses.
Position Tasks and Responsibilities
The following tasks will be assigned:
- Analyzing user needs and developing various mission concepts that align with their requirements.
- Creating mission and technical specifications for subsystems, with a focus on propulsion and attitude determination and control systems (ADCS).
- Developing internal tools for mission analysis.
- Designing and defining architectures for space systems to support the implementation of proposed mission concepts.
- Conducting system performance analysis, primarily focused on delta-V and pointing budgets, while also providing support for power, link, and mass budgets, among others.
- Selecting physical components to implement the chosen architecture.
- Managing both internal and external interfaces across all mission elements.
- Collaborating with technical teams within the organization as well as external stakeholders, such as launch providers and customers.
Candidate qualifications and skills
The individual must hold a
Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in aerospace engineering, with a strong systems engineering background.
Required experience and skills:
- Fluency in English.
- More than 5 years of experience in space missions involving small satellites or CubeSats.
- Strong background in propulsion systems and ADCS.
- Proficiency in STK or GMAT software.
- Knowledge of systems engineering principles.
- Strong background in Python programming.
Desirable qualifications and skills:
- Hands-on experience in nanosatellite mission assembly, integration, testing, and operations.
- Knowledge of ECSS and CCSDS standards.
- Project management courses or certifications.
The individual should possess strong communication skills, the ability to work autonomously and effectively, and be capable of cooperating in a potentially international and culturally diverse team.
Additionally, the individual should have good analytical, organizational, and reporting skills, a proactive attitude toward problem-solving, and an interest in technology development.
Note: The individual must be eligible to work and live in the EU.
About us
About Alén Space
Alén Space is a New Space company focused on the development of missions based on Nanosatellites as well as products and services related to them. Our mission is to help our clients to develop their business plan designing, manufacturing and operating satellites in order to execute the application they need.
While Alén Space is a new company, our team has been involved in several complete nanosatellite missions, from specification to delivery, during the last 15 years. Alén Space technical team is composed of systems engineers, electronic engineers, AIV engineers, software and operations engineers and project managers; with a large experience on IOD, communication, commercial and scientific missions, with private and public institutions such as the European Space Agency.
Alén Space’s value proposition resides in the flexibility and expertise of our team. We utilize our design and testing methodologies, which allow the use of components from various suppliers, to create the most suitable platform for the requested mission. During more than a decade, all our nanosatellites missions have been fully designed in-house, following the same multi-provider approach, resulting on a 100% success rate in orbit, for all launched missions.
At Alén Space, quality and flexibility in the design, manufacturing and testing are hallmarks of the company. The quality of the process is achieved through meticulous testing and verification processes, keeping traceability of all the executed activities. The flexibility is achieved thanks to the proximity relationship with our clients and to our supplier agnostic approach. This relationship aims not only at easing the communication process, but also at allowing our commercial clients to take an important role on the design aspects. In this line, we design the most flexible spacecraft platforms, to accommodate subsystem suppliers’ changes without heavily impacting the overall mission. Our systems and AIV engineers work closely with the client, in order to take decisions and involve them in the process.
Our team has enhanced a work method that applies the strict quality standards set by the European Space Agency (ESA) and the European Cooperation for Space Standardization (ECSS). All of our management, system engineering and AIV processes are based on those standards.
Quality, Flexibility, Scalability, Proximity, Expertise and Success define all Alén Space values.
Do you want to orbit with us?
We offer the opportunity to join a challenging space project together with a self-motivated team with great experience in the design and manufacturing of small satellites!
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