Jobs in London

Senior Product/Quality Assurance Engineer

Hands-on product and quality assurance role supporting space missions across all programme phases, from design collaboration and risk assessment to AIV reviews. Maintains the Quality Management System, applies internal and international standards (ISO9001, EN9100, ECSS), runs audits and inspections, and represents PA/QA in project and customer meetings.

ClearSpace London
On-site Permanent

GNC Architect

Lead the Guidance, Navigation and Control architecture for a space mission, defining subsystem requirements, simulator and test specifications, and managing the GNC engineering team. The role involves fault-tolerant algorithm design, rendezvous and pose estimation sensors, trajectory design and hardware integration, interfacing with system and robotic architects. Distinct for its focus on in-orbit servicing and space debris removal.

ClearSpace London
On-site Permanent

DevOps / SRE

Own cloud infrastructure, CI/CD and infrastructure as code while building monitoring, logging and alerting across a satellite laser ranging platform and its remote station fleet. Lead incident response, secure remote access and software updates, and strengthen security posture for a small London-based spacetech team.

Foundational London
On-site Permanent

Astrodynamics Engineer

Develops and improves automated precision orbit determination pipelines and flight dynamics tooling for the Origin platform, including force models, measurement corrections and spacecraft modelling. Builds orbit prediction and ephemeris products, validates data products and supports customers using orbit products. Works on-site in central London within a small team of engineers and scientists.

Foundational London
On-site Permanent

Optical SSA / Image Processing Engineer

Builds image processing pipelines for optical satellite tracking, covering detection, streak extraction and astrometry, plus camera and timing calibration for accurate, traceable measurements. Develops real-time processing for closed-loop tracking and validates results against catalogue orbits and in-house laser ranging data, working closely with optics and software teams on camera selection.

Foundational London
On-site Permanent

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

Full Stack Software Engineer

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
On-site Permanent