Re Orbit is looking for a motivated Senior Satellite Systems Engineer to join our team at our HQ in Helsinki, Finland.


This role will take the lead on designing and developing our systems, at satellite level, whilst supporting and mentoring other members of the team. Your extensive hands-on experience of working on satellite systems means you can start contributing immediately to our projects.


This full life-cycle, end-to-end role requires someone who has worked right from the beginning of a project, working with stakeholders and defining requirements through design and development of the system, working with suppliers and into AIT and launch. It’s a pivotal role, working inter-disciplinarily with the subsystem teams, weaving the systems into the platform level.


It's an exciting chance to join a dynamic start-up, with the opportunity to make a real impact, helping determine how we develop our systems to reach our goal of pushing the boundaries of space data transfer.


Responsibilities

• End-to-End System Design: Lead the design, integration, and validation of complex space systems, ensuring that every component works in harmony to meet the projects or product’s objectives.

• Requirements Engineering: Collaborate closely with stakeholders to define and refine both technical and non-technical requirements, ensuring clarity and alignment with mission goals. CONOPS/OPSCON, use cases development

• Subsystem Integration: Coordinate across different engineering teams (software, hardware, electrical, etc.) to ensure smooth subsystem integration, paying special attention to interface management.

• Performing feasibility studies

• Supporting business development with bids, providing technical information and supporting documentation

• Documentation

Skills & Requirements


Essential

• At least 10 years' experience working as a systems engineer on satellite projects

• Extensive commercial space industry experience; designing satellite platform architecture

• Full lifecycle experience, through all phases of a project, from requirements to AIT and launch

• Good understanding and exposure to different subsystems including avionics, payload/RF, GNC, Flight SW etc.

• Has previously developed documentation for requirements, AIT, CONOPS/OPSCON, design review gates etc.

• Mission analysis and modelling

• Knowledge of Space Industry Standards:
  • NASA Standards: Familiarity with NASA’s systems engineering standards, including NASA Systems Engineering Handbook (SP-6105) and other relevant technical standards.
  • ECSS Standards: Strong understanding of ECSS standards related to systems engineering, particularly ECSS-E-ST-10C (System Engineering General Requirements), and other relevant standards such as ECSS-Q-ST-10C (Product Assurance). Experience applying these standards in the design, development, and validation of space systems.
  
  

Desired

• Experience working on geo-stationary communication satellite projects

• Holistic thinking: Ability to approach problems and solutions with a comprehensive view, understanding how all subsystems and components interact within the larger system to achieve overall objectives. The candidate should be able to consider not just the technical aspects but also operational, environmental, and human factors in decision-making.

• Team Leadership and communication: Serve as a central communication point between engineering teams, project managers, and stakeholders. Foster collaboration, transparency, and clarity.

What does Re Orbit do?


Re Orbit builds the foundation for the next generation of space applications by transforming satellites into truly intelligent, interconnected platforms, defined by software. Our satellite design philosophy revolves around the idea that satellites must network, communicate with each other and thus improve mission efficiency. How can this be achieved? Thanks to a flexible software-first architecture, where all these aspects are dealt with upfront in the mission concept, as integrated functionalities.


Re Orbit’s top-notch team of software engineers and system architects develop in-house software, procure hardware from the best-in-class suppliers, and seamlessly integrate the components to create flexible and secure satellites. Today, we are a rapidly growing company building a very strong multidisciplinary team to support our activities. We are headquartered in Helsinki, Finland with a subsidiary in Bariloche, Argentina.


Working at Re Orbit


At Re Orbit, we are focused on building a strong team as we believe nothing can be accomplished without innovative, humble and curious minds working together on a common goal. We’re all about fostering an inclusive, dynamic environment where equality and diversity are our strength. Our hierarchies are designed thoughtfully, and titles reflect the work we do.


We offer

• Challenging but rewarding environment – you will thrive if you are always reflecting on how to make things better. Your ideas will be heard

• Ambitious and supportive network of people, who are motivated to change the space industry, bringing expertise from both classic and new space

• Benefits such as lunch vouchers, free gym, events, parties, occupational health care - but most importantly a possibility to be a part of a unique and diverse team, connected by similar mindset and sense of humour

• We like to spend time together! You can choose activities whichever is to your liking – run Orbit, climb Orbit; become ping pong or board games champion (warning – not easy to compete with existing ones)
• We support relocation and integration into Finnish society, find some experiences about relocation here

Please, submit your application as soon as possible - we are excited to hear from you and can’t wait to discover your unique skills and experiences.


For agencies: We do not accept unsolicited CVs for our open vacancies. Any CV sent to our team unsolicited will reserve us the right to pursue a candidate without obligation to the sender. All candidate submissions must be conducted through our official channels and in accordance with our terms of engagement.