Systems Engineer – Delft

About this role:

We are looking for a Systems Engineer to join our Delft team in the Netherlands.  This opportunity is ideal for someone with reasonable level of systems experience and good insight in technical development to manage product lifecycle.

As we expand and improve our satellite sub-system capabilities, we are looking for creative, driven, and enthusiastic individual to join our team to assist in developing, testing, and deploying our world-class satellite technology.

This opportunity is ideal for someone looking for responsibility and development opportunities of a technical nature in a dynamic, fast paced working environment with exciting projects and challenging schedules. You will be expected to work on projects of different sizes and complexities, ranging from actuator control systems to optical communication devices.

You will have proven experience from regulated industries with the desire to grow your knowledge and expertise, while adding value to our current ways of working. You will be happy to get involved and learn from the project! We also support activities across the AAC Clyde Space group so there are opportunities for cross-site collaboration.

It is an exciting opportunity to be part of projects where your work literally ends up in space!

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide technical and people leadership to deliver on agreed priorities and projects in line with business priorities
• Create task breakdowns, effort estimations, development plans, and track execution against milestones

• Define architectures, interfaces, and performance budgets for satellite components
• Translate customer requirements into detailed engineering specifications in relation to requirements specification, design and verification, development, integration and qualification of components and subsystems
• Coordinate and monitor the work done by the technical multi-disciplinary team, providing technical guidance where needed
• Participate in design reviews, risk assessments, and system-level testing campaigns
• Support the planning and execution of integration, verification, and qualification activities
• Perform trade-off analyses, system simulations, and technical assessments to support design decisions
• Manage requirements and ensure traceability across the development lifecycle
• Generate and manage controlled documentation, including non-conformance reports (NCRs), test plans, and interface control documents
• Document and communicate system designs, processes, and results to internal and external stakeholders

Skills required:

• Degree in relevant discipline or equivalent work experience
• Experience in space systems or complex hardware development projects
• Evidence of resolving technical issues Solid understanding of systems engineering principles and the full product lifecycle
• Broad technical knowledge across multiple engineering domains, including electronics, software, mechanical design, AOCS, and optics
• Experience with requirements management
• Familiarity with environmental testing, qualification, and integration processes for space hardware
• Excellent technical writing, communication, and interpersonal skills
• Demonstrates risk management and commercial awareness
• Awareness of timelines and forward planning skills
• Ability to drive good decisions under highly demanding, dynamic environment
• Competent IT skills including Microsoft software
• Proficient in English, both verbally and written

Skills desired:

• Familiar with laser comms
• Relevant space industry experience
• Previous experience in working with small/medium sized company

ABOUT AAC CLYDE SPACE

AAC Clyde Space, a leading New Space company, specialises in small satellite technologies and services that enable businesses, governments, and educational organisations to access high-quality, timely data from space. This data has a vast range of applications, from weather forecasting to precision farming to environmental monitoring, and is essential to improving our quality of life on Earth.

Our growing capabilities bring together three divisions:

• Space Data as a Service – delivering data from space directly to customers
• Space missions – turnkey solutions that empower customers to streamline their space missions
• Space products and components – a full range of off-the-shelf and tailor-made subsystems, components, and sensors

AAC Clyde Space aims to become a world leader in commercial small satellites and services from space, applying advances in its technology to tackle global challenges and improve our life on Earth.

Some of our clients include Horizon Technologies, Orbcomm, OHB Sweden, Intuitive Machines, Orbital Micro Systems, the United States Airforce Academy, UK Space Agency, European Space Agency and NASA.

AAC Clyde Space Group consists of the parent company AAC Clyde Space AB (publ) and subsidiaries in Sweden, the UK, the Netherlands, South Africa and the USA.  Our main operations are in these five countries, with partner networks in Japan and South Korea.

AAC Clyde Space’s share is traded on the Nasdaq First North Premier Growth Market.

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Right to Work

AAC Clyde Space has a legal responsibility to ensure that all its employees have the legal right to live and work in the EU or the country in which they plan to work. Therefore, if you are made an offer of employment, this will be subject to AAC Clyde Space verifying that you are eligible to work in that country before you start work.

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

We aim to create a positive recruitment and selection experience across every part of our business. The company is committed to handling applications to a consistently high standard and all candidates with dignity and respect. Those involved in the recruitment and selection process will act with integrity, objectivity and professionalism.   We are committed to equal opportunities for all and to have diversity reflected within our global workforce. We believe its diversity and inclusion will allow for greater creativity and innovation to help AAC Clyde Space Group deliver the vision to help improve life on earth.

Openness to Flexible Working

We recognise work-life balance is important so we are open to discussions around flexible working, depending on the nature of the role and business needs.  If you would like to know more, please ask the Hiring Manager during any recruitment process that you may be involved in.