Latest Satellite Technology Jobs

CAM/EDM Payload Programme Telecom

Manage the Payload subsystem contract for GEO telecom satellite programmes, from contract notification through to satellite delivery in orbit, acting as the programmatic interface with the customer and internal project team. Lead engineering delivery, reviews, schedules, costs, risks and resource allocation for a core payload team of around 10 people, covering legacy to fully flexible Software Defined Satellite solutions.

Thales Alenia Space Toulouse, France

Architecte Système Constellations - Projet Iris² - H/F

Responsible for analysing and defining a functional chain within a satellite constellation telecom system, contributing to system architecture trade-offs between customer requirements, product lines, cost and schedule. Covers needs consolidation, performance objectives, design and specification of the space/ground chain, plus documentation, client reviews and IVVQ test campaigns. Requires regular travel in Europe and internationally.

Thales Alenia Space Toulouse, France

Backend / Data Platform Engineer

Builds the data platform that ingests, processes and serves satellite laser ranging measurements, from station ingest pipelines to customer APIs. Involves designing time-series data models, cloud infrastructure with Docker and Kubernetes, and working with geodesy and orbit determination engineers. Based on-site in London at an early-stage spacetech company.

Foundational London

On-site Permanent

Technical Sales Engineer

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

On-site Permanent

Stage – Ingénieur traitement du signal et machine learning (H/F)

Develop a Python signal-processing pipeline to validate the optical performance of a space instrument, from raw data to delivered performance including measurement uncertainty, with Git version control and regression tests. In parallel, assess whether a machine-learning approach (scikit-learn, PyTorch or JAX) can match the reference physical method in precision, noise robustness, computation time and explainability, and document the tool for the team.

Thales Alenia Space Cannes, France

On-site Internship

Stage – Ingénieur instrumentation optique – (H/F)

Six-month internship within the optical payload assembly, integration and test department, focused on building and validating test benches for new optical measurement instruments such as spectro-radiometers and monochromators. Involves analysing specifications, modelling performance in Python or Matlab, running repeatability and accuracy tests, and writing characterisation procedures in ISO5/ISO8 cleanroom conditions.

Thales Alenia Space Cannes, France

On-site Internship

STAGE – Ingénieur - Etude de faisabilité d'un banc dynamique avec image infinie - H/F

Six-month engineering internship at a satellite observation site, contributing to the feasibility study and design of a dynamic image projection bench that simulates low-orbit Earth observation conditions. The role covers detector operating principles, proposing and designing an optical device, defining the experimental protocol and sourcing hardware, within a team of about ten engineers.

Thales Alenia Space Cannes, France

On-site Internship Clearance Required

Architecte Système PRS F/H

Defines and maintains the system architecture for the Galileo PRS ground segment, analysing customer requirements, specifying interfaces and producing architecture definition and justification documentation. Supports development and integration teams, manages requirements in DOORS or Polarion and applies MBSE with Capella or SysML within a ~60-person European project team.

Thales Alenia Space Toulouse, France

On-site Permanent

Ingénieur Responsable technique de station de réception GNSS (F/H)

Technical lead for GNSS receiving stations on a European or export SBAS project, owning the specification, design follow-up and deployment of RF stations that receive and process GPS and GALILEO signals. Reviews supplier deliverables, approves key milestones and ensures technical conformity with customer requirements within an international team.

Thales Alenia Space Toulouse, France

Architecte Logiciel Segment Sol

As a software architect within the Solution Authority team, you define and cost technical solutions for major space programmes, ensuring technical coherence and defending architectural choices to clients. The role spans modern architectures (microservices, hexagonal), Kubernetes, data management and full-stack technologies such as Java/SpringBoot, Angular, C++, Python, Go or Rust, while evolving complex legacy systems.

Thales Alenia Space Toulouse, France

Architecte Logiciel Segment Sol

As a software architect within the Solution Authority, you define and cost technical solutions for major space programmes, ensuring technical coherence and defending architectural choices to clients. The role spans modern architectures (microservices, hexagonal), Kubernetes, data management and full-stack technologies like Java/SpringBoot, Angular, C++, Python, Go or Rust, while evolving complex legacy systems.

Thales Alenia Space Cannes, France

Responsable IVVQ Payload GEO Télécom F/H

Defines the Integration, Verification, Validation and Qualification (IVVQ) strategy for the payload of geostationary telecommunications satellites, including test means, engineering tools and methods. Plans and coordinates IVVQ activities with contributing teams such as AIT, managing budget, cost, quality and schedule objectives. Works on GEO programmes using SpaceBus and Space Inspire platforms, with tools such as Polarion.

Thales Alenia Space Toulouse, France

Ingénieur Responsable Support à la Production-F/H

Provide production support for high-technology space electronic products in a cleanroom (ISO8) environment, driving the treatment of production technical events and immediate customer-protection actions. Animate cross-functional meetings with Quality, Methods, Processes and Maintenance to find root causes, define dispositions and action plans, then track KPIs and return products to the production flow. Also contribute to industrialisation of new products and continuous improvement of yield, recurring cost and lead time.

Thales Alenia Space Toulouse, France

On-site

Architecte Hardware Solutions Numériques - F/H

Designs and develops digital hardware architectures for embedded systems in space TELECOM applications, covering computers, processors, high-speed electronics, firmware, software, DSP and standardised communication protocols. Works daily with multidisciplinary teams on functional, hardware and risk analyses, technical specifications and customer interfaces, keeping current with components like FPGA, SoC, ASIC and high-speed interfaces.

Thales Alenia Space Toulouse, France

Architecte Hardware Electronic - Equipements numériques (Navigation) - H/F

Lead the end-to-end hardware architecture for digital payload equipment on navigation and telecom satellites, from requirements analysis and client dialogue through architecture studies, development tracking and integration. Decide technical and methodological trade-offs, ensure standards and reuse policy compliance, and use modelling, simulation and prototyping to explore next-generation technologies.

Thales Alenia Space Toulouse, France