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.
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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.
