UK Space Jobs

ClearSpace · London

Hands-on procurement role supporting sourcing, supplier management and contracting for a space sustainability company, working with the Director of Procurement and Supply Chain. Involves negotiating supplier contracts, MSAs and SOWs, running day-to-day procurement operations, monitoring supplier performance and ensuring import/export compliance within a function being built from the ground up.

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.

Foundational · London

Own the fit-out and day-to-day running of a new London facility with workshop, labs and cleanroom, covering health, safety and environmental compliance, maintenance, security, budgets and suppliers. Works closely with landlords, contractors and engineers at an early-stage spacetech company.

Foundational · London

Lead a growing engineering team spanning hardware, optics and software, taking satellite laser ranging stations from prototype to repeatable production. Own delivery planning, design reviews, requirements and configuration processes while shaping architecture with the CTO and supporting ESA and customer programmes.

ClearSpace · London

Coordinate and execute Assembly, Integration, and Validation activities for current and upcoming space missions, authoring AIV plans, estimating resources, and overseeing daily test operations. Design and maintain test environments including hardware models, harnesses, and IT infrastructure, while driving process improvement and providing technical leadership to the AIV team.

Foundational · London

Runs grant and contract bids for space agencies and innovation bodies, tracking funding calls and managing submissions end to end. Writes non-technical sections on management, finance, impact and commercialisation, builds bid budgets and coordinates consortium partners. Also handles post-award reporting and compliance, freeing engineers to focus on technical content.

Foundational · London

Turn large volumes of satellite laser ranging data into geodetic and orbit products at scale, building pipelines from raw returns to normal points and higher-level products. Develop statistical methods for bias detection, outlier rejection and data quality, analyse station and network performance, and work with the geodesy and orbit determination team to turn research into products.

Foundational · London

Builds the data platform that ingests, processes and serves satellite laser ranging measurements, from station ingest pipelines to customer APIs. Involves designing time-series data models, cloud infrastructure with Docker and Kubernetes, and working with geodesy and orbit determination engineers. Based on-site in London at an early-stage spacetech company.

Foundational · London

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 orbit products. Works on-site in central London within a small team of engineers and scientists.

Foundational · London

You will act as the technical voice in sales conversations, running discovery calls and demos with satellite operators and scoping tracking tiers, data products and retroreflector solutions. The role also involves answering technical requirements in RFPs, supporting customers integrating retroreflectors onto spacecraft, and feeding customer needs back to product and engineering. It sits within a small London team of engineers and scientists working on satellite laser ranging.

Foundational · London

Lead geodetic processing and analysis of satellite laser ranging data, ensuring it meets international geodetic community standards and becomes trusted products. Contribute to reference frame and Earth orientation products, define data quality standards, and represent the company in the ILRS, IAG and wider geodetic community. Guide data scientists and software engineers on models and algorithms, with opportunities to publish and present at conferences.

Foundational · London

Coordinates international freight of high-value, sensitive station hardware from suppliers to London and onward to sites across four continents. Handles customs documentation, commodity codes, duty and import VAT, temporary-import processes such as ATA Carnets, and export compliance classifications and licences, while tracking inventory and assets and managing freight forwarders, customs brokers and host sites.

Foundational · London

Build and maintain both frontend and backend of a real-time space-domain SaaS platform, working across Python, React, FastAPI, MongoDB, AWS, Terraform and Airflow. The role also covers DevOps, CI/CD via GitLab and close collaboration with product, with genuine ownership as an early team member in a small spacetech startup.

Foundational · London

Owns the full lifecycle of Satellite Laser Ranging and Space Debris Laser Ranging systems, from radiometric link-budget modelling and optical bench assembly to time-of-flight data processing and orbital determination. Leads deployment and site acceptance testing of optical ground stations and acts as laser safety subject matter expert under UK/EU standards. Requires Python instrument control, Linux, high-precision timing hardware and LiDAR/SLR signal processing expertise.