UK Space Jobs

Astroscale · Didcot

Lead the Ground Systems Team, owning the ground segment architecture, requirements and technical baseline across all subsystems, from conceptual design to maintenance. Drive integration, verification and validation, interface coherence and supplier technical governance, while line-managing 4-6 engineers and interfacing between Mission & Systems, Operations and Ground Segment Software teams.

Astroscale · Didcot

Develop and maintain flight dynamics models, algorithms, simulations and software tools supporting mission design, orbit determination, manoeuvre planning and conjunction assessment. Work spans the full development chain from design through testing to real-time spacecraft operations, across rendezvous, docking and separation scenarios with multidisciplinary teams globally.

Holt Executive · Oxfordshire · £65,000 – £98,000 pa

Leads a team of systems engineers while actively contributing to the design and development of complex spacecraft systems across the full lifecycle, from mission concept to integration and verification. Focuses on technical trade-offs, requirements management, and cross-disciplinary coordination within a high-tech space organisation. Offers leadership responsibility alongside hands-on engineering in a collaborative, international environment.

Airbus Defence and Space · Stevenage

Tests and validates spacecraft control systems and ground segment software for critical space missions, developing integration and test plans, procedures and cases. Administers System Reference Model test facilities and runs functional, performance, integration and regression testing including hardware-in-the-loop. Works with developers, system engineers and mission operations teams, supporting launch and in-orbit phases.

Holt Executive · Oxfordshire · £65,000 – £98,000 pa

Leads the design, integration, and operation of satellite ground segment systems, ensuring technical robustness and alignment across subsystems and mission operations. Manages a small team of engineers, overseeing technical development, system validation, and lifecycle support from concept to deployment. Acts as a key interface between engineering, software, and operations teams while driving architectural consistency and mission readiness.

Eutelsat OneWeb · Forfar

Specify and oversee development of mission control and resource management systems for IRIS² and future satellite constellations, covering payload planning, gateway and network configuration. Work spans functional architecture, supplier RFP assessment, trade-offs across subsystems, and integration with IVV teams. Interfaces closely with service and spacecraft operations teams.

Spire · Glasgow

Design, implement, test and maintain embedded firmware for satellite systems, working across engineering groups on architecture and system design. Debug on-orbit and on-ground issues, optimise serial protocols and build interface tooling, using Embedded C, FreeRTOS, Python, Bash and Git on Linux. Fast design-to-launch cycles measured in weeks.

Spire · Glasgow

Design, implement, test and maintain embedded firmware for satellite systems, working within a Platform team that interfaces with R&D, manufacturing and operations. Involves optimising serial protocols, debugging on-orbit and on-ground issues, and building interface tools, with FreeRTOS, Embedded C, Python/Bash and Arm Cortex microcontrollers in a fast design-to-launch cycle.

ClearSpace · London

Supports the full technical development of satellite missions, from early concept and requirements through launch and in-orbit commissioning. Coordinates system-level activities, manages interfaces and maintains the system baseline and engineering documentation across subsystems. Works on current missions and future projects within the Systems Engineering Team.

ClearSpace · London

Support the technical development of spacecraft across the full mission lifecycle, from concept and requirements definition through design, AIT, launch and in-orbit commissioning. Focus on avionics architecture, interfaces and system-level integration, acting as technical point of contact with customers and subcontractors while maintaining electrical budgets and parametric models.

Eutelsat OneWeb · London

Provides 24/7 flight dynamics operations support on a shift rota, performing on-console work and real-time mission support from launch to de-orbit. Configures, troubleshoots and monitors orbit determination, maneuver, trajectory and attitude planning software, including collision avoidance planning, and develops operational procedures.

Airbus Defence and Space · Stevenage

Placement within the Operations and Failure Detection, Isolation and Recovery team, ensuring spacecraft operate in nominal and contingency situations from launch to end of life. Work spans defining operational and FDIR concepts, tuning FDIR monitors, and writing and testing Flight Operations Procedures, collaborating with software, verification and database teams across telecoms, Earth observation and exploration missions.

NewOrbit Space · Reading

Owns functional and system-level testing of spacecraft and verification tracking for each satellite campaign, taking satellites from integrated subsystems to flight-ready, fully verified vehicles. Bridges systems engineering, subsystem teams and AIT functions, turning requirements into test procedures, leading test campaigns and closing out requirements with traceable evidence. Hands-on with EGSE, checkout systems and RF test equipment in a SmallSat environment.

Surrey Satellite Technology · Guildford

Accountable for delivering constellation satellite missions from contract award through spacecraft development, launch, commissioning and operational acceptance. Leads cross-functional engineering, operations, commercial and supply chain teams, acting as primary customer interface and owning programme performance, risk, budgets and schedules. Requires satellite systems experience and strong MS Project skills.

Surrey Satellite Technology · Bordon

Independent inspection of composite materials, components and spacecraft hardware against engineering drawings, specifications and space-industry standards. The role witnesses Key and Mandatory Inspection Points across manufacture, assembly, integration and test, controls non-conformances and maintains traceability records, working closely with Manufacturing, AIT, Engineering and PA/QA in a high-precision spacecraft production environment.