Senior Space Systems Engineer

FADA is seeking a Senior Space Systems Engineer with a passion for innovation and a drive to shape the future of space missions. In this role, you’ll collaborate with customers and multidisciplinary teams to transform operational needs into cutting-edge space capabilities, through the full mission lifecycle. You will conduct and lead systems engineering efforts using industry standards such as ISO 15288:2023, INCOSE, ECSS, and NASA frameworks, ensuring robust architecture, requirements management, and mission success.

Key Accountabilities

• Stakeholder engagement particularly the communication of complex technical engineering concepts.
• Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) supported complex systems engineering.
• System architecture definition, functional, logical and physical architecture definition and transformation.
• MBSE tools and environment establishment and configuration management.
• Requirements management and requirements transformation into the system domain.

Responsibilities

• Transformation of customer needs into system requirements and architectures.
• Participate in the full lifecycle of space system development.
• Develop and maintain system architecture, interface control documents (ICDs), and system specifications.
• Perform trade studies, risk assessments, and performance analyses to support design decisions.
• Support integration and testing of hardware and software components in lab and field environments.
• Collaborate with platform, subsystem, and ground segment engineers to ensure cohesive system design.
• Contribute to mission planning, simulation, and operations support.
• Prepare technical documentation, reports, and presentations for internal and external stakeholders.
• Ensure compliance with industry standards, safety protocols, and customer requirements.

Qualifications & Experience

• Master's degree or equivalent in an engineering discipline.
• 7-10+ years of experience in space systems engineering or a related aerospace role.
• Preferred to have equivalent INCOSE Certified Systems Engineering Professional certification.
• Engineering chartership in your home country.

Key Skills

• Space systems engineering.
• Model-Based Systems Engineering awareness.
• Requirements management.
• Design definition and system analysis processes.
• Stakeholder engagement.