UK Space Jobs

• Stevenage
• Hybrid
• Mid-level
• Permanent

Joins a small, start-up-style team within a large defence and space organisation, shaping early-phase satellite missions from concept through initial design. Defines mission architectures, runs feasibility studies and trade-offs, and supports bids and customer engagement with universities, agencies and small companies. Combines systems engineering with modelling and simulation across varied, short-term projects.

• Milton Keynes
• Lead · manages people

Owns end-to-end design of complex electronics modules for satellites and aerospace systems, from architecture and schematic through PCB layout in Altium, analysis, bring-up and production release. Leads teams of hardware engineers, mentors staff and presents design reviews to customers and executives in a high-reliability startup environment.

Altium Designer · Ansys SIwave · ADS SIPro +1

• Guildford

Lead the development and delivery of next-generation spacecraft optical payloads, from concept through manufacture, integration and verification. Hands-on work includes interferometry, MTF bench setups, wavefront measurement, precision alignment and environmental test campaigns, while owning requirements, V&V plans, risk registers and customer-facing technical documentation within a multidisciplinary team.

OpticStudio · Zemax · FRED +1

• Guildford
• On-site
• Mid-level · manages people

Manages small space projects and studies or supports larger programmes from contract award through development, launch preparation and in-orbit commissioning. Leads the day-to-day project core team, handling schedules, work packages, risk, earned value and financial performance, and supports bid activities with programme management input.

Microsoft Project · Microsoft Office · Excel +2

• London
• Hybrid
• Mid-level

Manage ongoing and future partnership programmes, including a major ESA initiative involving industrial partners across Europe. Handle contract changes, ESA reporting, project reviews, and stakeholder coordination with internal teams and national delegations, while screening new innovation and partnership opportunities.

ESA

• Issy-Les-Moulineaux, United Kingdom
• Hybrid

Owns the system requirements documentation for Eutelsat's next-generation satellite system and the IRIS2 programme, ensuring traceability back to stakeholder needs. Works with commercial teams, internal engineering and external suppliers on architecture trade-offs, functional decomposition and verification planning. Requires formal requirements management tooling and satellite or terrestrial communications systems experience.

DOORS · Jama

• London
• Hybrid

Join a team building and operating temporospatial software-defined networking platforms for aerospace mesh networks, spanning satellite, airborne, and deep-space communications. The role focuses on reliability engineering for orchestration systems that manage planetary mesh networks across any spectrum, orbit, or hardware.

• London
• Hybrid
• Mid-level

Join a team building software-defined networking platforms for aerospace, working on orchestration and management of planetary mesh networks across radio and optical spectrum. The role involves developing systems for satellite, airborne, cislunar and deep-space communications, using technology originally acquired from Google.

• Edinburgh
• £36 ph
• Senior
• Contract

Design, develop, integrate and qualify advanced RF hardware from UHF to Ka Band for aerospace and space communication systems. The role covers active RF circuit design (LNAs, SSPAs, mixers, PLLs), link budget and line-up analysis, simulation with AWR/ADS/CST/HFSS, and hands-on testing with VNAs and spectrum analysers, including EMI/EMC and thermal vacuum qualification.

AWR Microwave Office · Keysight ADS · CST Studio Suite +7

• Edinburgh
• Hybrid · 3–4 days in office
• Lead · manages people

Lead the architecture and delivery of the BSP ASIC embedded software stack for satellite communication platforms, combining hands-on C and real-time development with mentoring. Work spans ASIC bring-up, drivers, RTOS services, diagnostics and test automation, bridging hardware R&D, systems and payload teams. Based in Edinburgh with 3-4 office days per week.

FreeRTOS · Zephyr · I2C +7

• Manchester
• Hybrid
• £37,694 – £42,254 pa
• Entry level
• Contract

Lead the development of guidance for socially responsible Earth Observation-based agricultural mapping in smallholder farming systems across Sub-Saharan Africa. Catalogue existing ethical frameworks and conduct document-based and qualitative interview research on risks to farmers, then devise strategies with project partners including the World Bank and Gates Foundation.

Satellite-based Irrigation Mapping Tools

• Didcot
• Senior

Lead the definition and development of advanced space mission concepts, from early customer discussions through to fully developed proposals. Define mission architectures across space, ground and launch segments, engage institutional and commercial customers, and drive proposal development with technical credibility and cost realism. Also mentor others and build tools to assess mission performance, risk, cost and schedule.

Mission Control Systems

• London
• On-site
• Mid-level
• Permanent

As a key member of the Mission and Systems Team, you will define satellite bus architecture and support the platform lifecycle from concept through testing and validation. Day-to-day work includes deriving and managing mission and system requirements, performing system analyses and trade-offs, maintaining budgets, and contributing to FMEA/FMECA and V&V planning.

AIV

• Reading
• Hybrid
• Mid-level
• Permanent

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.

OpenC3/COSMOS · Yamcs · SCOS-2000 +7

• Didcot
• Hybrid
• Permanent

Designs and verifies the Guidance, Navigation and Control subsystem for on-orbit servicing missions, integrating GNC and computer vision algorithms with bespoke hardware for Rendezvous and Proximity Operations. The role spans requirements, FDIR, V&V strategy, trade-off analysis and flight software architecture, working alongside other engineering disciplines and external customers and suppliers.

MATLAB · Simulink · C/C++