61 jobs for “earth observation analyst”
Foundational
Runs grant and contract bids for ESA, UK Space Agency and Innovate UK, managing the full bid lifecycle from tracking funding calls to submission. Writes non-technical sections, builds budgets with finance, coordinates consortium partners and handles post-award reporting and compliance, freeing engineers to focus on technical work.
esa-star
Foundational
Keeps a satellite laser-ranging platform and remote station software reliable, secure and repeatable, owning cloud infrastructure, CI/CD and infrastructure as code. Builds monitoring, logging and alerting across platform and stations, manages secure remote access and updates for a fleet of remote sites, and leads incident response and security hardening.
Terraform · Kubernetes · Docker +5
Spire · 51–200 people · Series C
Owns spacecraft attitude and orbit control software and hardware across the full lifecycle, from R&D and design through manufacturing and on-orbit operations. Builds dynamics and control simulations including hardware-in-the-loop, designs and qualifies flight sensors and actuators, and works hands-on in lab and manufacturing environments. Interfaces with external contractors and internal teams in a fast design-to-launch cycle measured in weeks and months.
C · Python · C++ +1
Eutelsat OneWeb
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
Eutelsat OneWeb
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
Foundational
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 them, working on-site in a small London team of engineers and scientists.
AWS · Orekit · Docker
Foundational
Own the fit-out and day-to-day running of a new London facility with workshop, labs and cleanroom, managing contractors, landlords and building services. Maintain cleanroom, workshop and lab infrastructure while owning health, safety and environmental compliance including risk assessments, COSHH and fire safety. Also manage facilities budgets, suppliers, security, access and space planning as the team grows.
ISO 14644
Foundational
Lead a growing engineering team across hardware, optics and software, taking satellite laser ranging stations from prototype to repeatable production. Own delivery planning, design reviews and systems engineering processes while working with the CTO on architecture and supporting ESA and customer programmes.
ESA Programmes
Foundational
Own the laser subsystem in autonomous satellite laser ranging stations, from specifying and qualifying pulsed laser sources with suppliers to integrating beam delivery, cooling, power, control and safety interlocks. Characterise performance, build test rigs, improve reliability for unattended remote sites, and manage laser damage risk with the optics team. Based on-site in London within a small spacetech team.
Lidar
Foundational
Hands-on workshop role building the hardware for autonomous satellite laser ranging stations. You'll machine, assemble, wire and test mechanical and electrical sub-assemblies, build looms and cabinets, and prepare equipment for shipping to sites worldwide, while helping engineers turn prototypes into repeatable builds.
Foundational
An apprenticeship building space hardware, learning mechanical, electrical and optical assembly alongside engineers while working towards a recognised engineering qualification. You'll machine, assemble and wire in the workshop, help build and test real satellite laser ranging station hardware, and rotate through mechanical, electrical and optical work while studying with a college or training provider.
3D Printing
Foundational
Install, commission and maintain autonomous satellite laser ranging stations at remote sites across Europe, South America, Africa and Australia, turning crates of hardware into working stations and keeping them running. Involves telescope, laser, enclosure, power and network work, fault diagnosis on site and remotely, preventive maintenance, and feeding field lessons back into design.
Telescope · Lidar
Foundational
Monitor station health, tracking and data delivery across a global network of autonomous satellite laser ranging stations, triaging faults and coordinating fixes with field engineers. Build dashboards, alerting and runbooks, track performance, and help shape on-call and shift cover as the network expands across time zones.
Grafana · Prometheus
Foundational
Coordinate international freight for high-value satellite laser ranging hardware, moving equipment from suppliers to London and on to sites across four continents. Handle customs documentation, commodity codes, duty, import VAT and temporary-import processes such as ATA Carnets, while tracking inventory and assets across sites.
Spreadsheets · Logistics Systems
Foundational
Builds image processing pipelines for optical satellite tracking, covering detection, streak extraction and astrometry, plus camera and timing calibration for traceable measurements. Also develops real-time processing for closed-loop tracking and validates results against catalogue orbits and laser ranging data, working closely with optics and software teams.
Astropy · Source Extractor
