UK Space Jobs

• London
• On-site
• Permanent

You'll be the technical voice in sales conversations, running discovery calls and demos with satellite operators and scoping tracking tiers, data products and retroreflectors. The role also covers RFP responses, supporting retroreflector integration onto spacecraft, feeding customer needs back to product and engineering, and building technical sales material. It sits within a small London team of engineers and scientists working on satellite laser ranging.

CRM

• London
• On-site
• Director · manages people
• Permanent

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

• Portsmouth
• Hybrid
• Mid-level
• Permanent

Owns the commodity strategy for Ground Segment equipment—antennas, services and IT infrastructure/software—acting as the main entry point for commodity management within the Ground Segment Procurement team. Runs global market analysis, CFT/RFP sourcing, contract negotiation and supplier relationship management, while leading value-creation and risk-management projects across the supply chain.

IT Infrastructure

• Portsmouth
• Hybrid
• Mid-level · manages people
• Permanent

Oversees PMO activities across the full contract lifecycle, from bidding through to closing, ensuring projects are delivered on schedule, within budget and to quality standards. Coordinates governance, reporting and tools such as Primavera P6 and MS Project, managing KPIs, earned value, risk and resource demand while leading a PMO team and engaging stakeholders across engineering, finance and supply.

Primavera P6 · MS Project · Active Risk Manager +1

• Newport
• Hybrid
• Mid-level
• Permanent

Hands-on role managing the full lifecycle of security incidents within an international CSIRT, investigating SOC alerts and performing host forensic analysis and reverse-engineering. You will industrialise SIEM and EDR tooling, build detection use cases, and design incident response processes for SOC Level 1 and 2, with automation a key focus. Includes on-call crisis team duties and international alignment.

SIEM · EDR

• Stevenage
• Hybrid
• Lead · manages people
• Permanent

Lead the PMO for the Mechanical Platform team within a transnational Telecom programme, maintaining project management standards, integrated schedules and risk/opportunity plans. Turn time, cost and quality data into actionable reporting for monthly cycles and customer discussions, while coordinating resources and supporting bids.

Unified Planning · MS Project · Primavera +1

• Portsmouth
• On-site
• Mid-level · manages people
• Permanent

Lead and develop a production team delivering high-reliability products, optimising resource planning and interfacing directly with the shop floor to meet time, quality, cost and safety targets. Define global production plans across multiple parallel projects using P6 scheduling and manufacturing systems such as SAP MES, while driving continuous improvement and work package management.

SAP Manufacturing Execution Systems · P6

• Portsmouth
• Hybrid · 3 days in office
• Mid-level
• Permanent

Own the architecture, specification and delivery of a radar payload's digital backend, defining high-speed data architectures with ultra-fast ADCs/DACs and high-throughput FPGAs/ASICs. Set DSP, commanding and operations requirements, define interfaces between instrument backend, platform and front-end, and create development, modelling and verification strategies for spaceborne electronics.

• Portsmouth
• Hybrid · 3 days in office
• Mid-level
• Permanent

Carry out radiation and nuclear hardening engineering for advanced satellite payloads and equipment, covering component selection and testing, shielding analysis, supplier analysis review, and radiation testing. Interface with customers, Airbus teams and subcontractors, and attend design reviews while producing environment and hardness assurance specifications.

• Stevenage
• Hybrid
• Entry level
• Permanent

Hands-on assembly, integration and testing of satellite systems, covering complex harness routing, soldering, crimping, bonding, torqueing, drilling and shimming, plus basic electrical testing such as continuity, bonding and insulation. Also involves first-level quality inspections, working from technical documentation, and supporting off-site testing and launch site activities, including working at heights.

• Stevenage
• On-site
• Entry level
• Internship

A three-year Level 2 Engineering Operative apprenticeship in satellite Assembly, Integration and Test, developing both mechanical and electrical skills. You'll work in small teams on satellite structures, harness routing, soldering, crimping and basic electrical testing, following drawings and tight tolerances, with year three fully on-site.

3DX

• Stevenage
• On-site
• Entry level
• Internship

A three-year Level 2 craft apprenticeship building spacecraft propulsion systems, covering mechanical assembly, orbital welding of titanium and stainless-steel pipework, and electrical harness work such as crimping, splicing and soldering. Apprentices rotate through the Propulsion Production area, work to tight tolerances from 3DX drawings, and spend a week on Outward Bound team-building activities in year two.

3DX

• Stevenage
• On-site
• Entry level
• Internship

A three-year Level 2 Engineering Operative apprenticeship building satellite structures at Airbus Defence and Space in Stevenage. Apprentices develop mechanical skills such as bonding, riveting, drilling and torque loading alongside electrical techniques including crimping, splicing, harness installation and fault finding, working in small teams on spacecraft manufacture.

3DX

• Chippenham
• Hybrid
• Senior
• Permanent

Provide end-to-end cyber security support for Spacecraft Control Centre Systems and Satellite Communications infrastructures, analysing functional needs, setting criticality levels and designing security protection concepts. Coordinate defence strategies across disciplines, manage risks and ensure alignment with the overall security architecture, working with Solaris, Linux, Windows and Cisco environments under JSP440.

Solaris · Linux · Windows +1