UK Space Jobs

Foundational · London

You will act as the technical voice in sales conversations, running discovery calls and demos with satellite operators and scoping tracking tiers, data products and retroreflector solutions. The role also involves answering technical requirements in RFPs, supporting customers integrating retroreflectors onto spacecraft, and feeding customer needs back to product and engineering. It sits within a small London team of engineers and scientists working on satellite laser ranging.

Foundational · London

Lead geodetic processing and analysis of satellite laser ranging data, ensuring it meets international geodetic community standards and becomes trusted products. Contribute to reference frame and Earth orientation products, define data quality standards, and represent the company in the ILRS, IAG and wider geodetic community. Guide data scientists and software engineers on models and algorithms, with opportunities to publish and present at conferences.

Aalyria · London

Build and maintain backend systems for a temporospatial software-defined networking platform used in satellite and airborne mesh networks. Work on orchestration and management of planetary mesh networks spanning land, sea, air and space, using technology originally acquired from Google.

Aalyria · London

Builds backend software for software-defined networking platforms that orchestrate satellite, airborne and deep-space mesh networks, working with technology originally acquired from Google. The role sits within an aerospace-focused engineering team managing communications across any radio or optical spectrum, orbit or hardware.

Eutelsat OneWeb · Issy-Les-Moulineaux, United Kingdom

Develops, validates and maintains in-house system performance simulators for next-generation satellite communication systems, running end-to-end modelling analyses to inform payload, platform and ground network design. Works within the End-to-End Systems Engineering organisation alongside architecture, software and commercial teams, using Julia or Python plus MATLAB, C++ or SQL, and presenting results to technical and non-technical audiences.

Foundational · London

Coordinates international freight of high-value, sensitive station hardware from suppliers to London and onward to sites across four continents. Handles customs documentation, commodity codes, duty and import VAT, temporary-import processes such as ATA Carnets, and export compliance classifications and licences, while tracking inventory and assets and managing freight forwarders, customs brokers and host sites.

Foundational · London

Build and maintain both frontend and backend of a real-time space-domain SaaS platform, working across Python, React, FastAPI, MongoDB, AWS, Terraform and Airflow. The role also covers DevOps, CI/CD via GitLab and close collaboration with product, with genuine ownership as an early team member in a small spacetech startup.

Foundational · London

Owns the full lifecycle of Satellite Laser Ranging and Space Debris Laser Ranging systems, from radiometric link-budget modelling and optical bench assembly to time-of-flight data processing and orbital determination. Leads deployment and site acceptance testing of optical ground stations and acts as laser safety subject matter expert under UK/EU standards. Requires Python instrument control, Linux, high-precision timing hardware and LiDAR/SLR signal processing expertise.

Aalyria · London

Join a team building laser communications and temporospatial software-defined networking platforms for aerospace, working on satellite and airborne mesh networks plus cislunar and deep-space communications. The role centres on orchestrating and managing planetary mesh networks across any radio or optical spectrum, orbit, or hardware spanning land, sea, air and space.