176 jobs for “UK Space Command”
Saab Oakley
Manage flight test planning, ground preparation and field execution for unmanned aerial vehicles, acting as a UAV pilot to gather telemetry and performance data. Analyse flight data against design metrics and produce detailed test reports for engineering teams, ensuring safety and regulatory compliance throughout the testing lifecycle.
Saab Oakley
Support the Head of Engineering on multidisciplinary design challenges for unmanned systems, performing day-to-day CAD work, managing requirements, and contributing to design, integration, verification and testing across aerospace development projects. Involves material selection for composite and metallic components, payload and propulsion integration including all-electric and eVTOL applications, plus documentation, DFMEAs and risk assessments.
Foundational London
Designs mounts, benches and enclosures that keep telescope and bench optics aligned in unattended, remote stations. Owns alignment concepts, fixtures and procedures, runs thermal and structural FEA to set tolerances, and designs for manufacture, assembly and field servicing, working with the workshop and suppliers from drawing to finished part.
Foundational London
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.
Airbus Defence and Space Portsmouth
Designs, codes and maintains test automation software in Python and Java for complex satellite equipment test sites, automating instrument control, DUT sequencing and data acquisition for RF and digital space hardware. Works in a ~30-person team alongside system engineers, authoring architectural blueprints, API docs and CI/CD best practices. Requires UK SC clearance eligibility and a polyglot, hardware-automation background.
Airbus Defence and Space Portsmouth
Manage product assurance for the Onesat software-defined satellite programme within a small, collaborative assurance team. Oversee non-conformance and review board activity, coordinate customer engagement on major non-conformances, and support the full product lifecycle from kick-off to delivery review. Maintain the Product Assurance Plan, APQP deliverables and quality plans, and analyse performance data with a focus on optimisation and automated reporting.
ClearSpace London
Participate in mission design, mission-level verification and operations for current and future in-orbit servicing and debris removal missions. Model orbits, mission phases and parameters for low- and high-thrust trajectories, define CONOPs and operations plans, and run thermal, radiation, illumination and debris mitigation analyses while interfacing with customers and partners.
ClearSpace London
Owns the overall spacecraft thermo-mechanical architecture, from concept through launch and operations, as a key member of the Mechanical, Thermal and Propulsion team. Leads mechanical design, interfaces, trade-offs and verification, acting as primary technical focal point for customers, partners and suppliers, with scope to coordinate the MTP domains on a mission.
Gregory Martin International Chippenham £60,000 – £80,000 pa
Lead major consulting projects across defence, energy and health, delivering technical excellence in requirements engineering, architecture development, systems analysis and MBSE. The role combines team leadership, client delivery, technical expertise and business development, including bid input and mentoring junior consultants. Distinct for its defence focus and work with UK MOD, primes and government bodies.
Gregory Martin International Portsmouth £60,000 – £80,000 pa
Lead major consulting projects across defence, energy and health, delivering requirements engineering, architecture development, MBSE and integration, verification and validation. Combines team leadership and mentoring with client delivery, bid input and business development, acting as a subject matter expert for UK MOD and defence primes.
Surrey Satellite Technology Guildford
Lead the power subsystem on spacecraft missions from concept through launch and operations, owning requirements flow-down, design, analysis, verification and delivery. Manages work packages including budget, schedule and risk, interfacing with technical leads and customers, and supports bids and future product development.
Eutelsat OneWeb Issy-Les-Moulineaux, United Kingdom
Develops, validates and maintains in-house system performance simulators for next-generation satellite communication systems, running end-to-end modelling analyses to inform payload, platform and ground network design. Works within the End-to-End Systems Engineering organisation alongside architecture, software and commercial teams, using Julia or Python plus MATLAB, C++ or SQL, and presenting results to technical and non-technical audiences.
Flarebright Bicester £39,000 – £49,000 pa
Contributes across the full development lifecycle, from concept and algorithm design to system integration, testing and troubleshooting of safety-critical navigation and autonomy software in C++. Works with a multidisciplinary team on real-time embedded systems, hardware/software-in-the-loop testing and flight test activities, producing design documentation and test reports.
Rolls Royce Solihull
Analyse and ensure the structural and mechanical performance of electrical machines, power electronic converters, engine control units and battery systems across their full life cycle. Work with Design, System, Safety, Service and Airworthiness engineers, using simulation tools such as Ansys, NX and LS Dyna to meet company, customer and regulatory requirements.
Rolls Royce Derby
Design and deliver electrical infrastructure for aerospace engine and rig test facilities, from requirements capture and calculations through detailed design, manufacture oversight and acceptance testing. Work under the Technical Authority with product definition teams, chairing design reviews and ensuring legislative compliance across civil and defence test programmes.
