UK Space Jobs

• London
• On-site
• Permanent

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.

SolidWorks · Onshape

• London
• On-site
• Permanent

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.

• Stevenage
• 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 on KPIs, earned value and risk, and manages a PMO team supporting Project and Work Package Managers. Requires strong Primavera P6, MS Project and risk analysis tooling experience.

Primavera P6 · MS Project · Active Risk Manager +1

• Stevenage
• Hybrid
• Entry level
• Internship

Placement within the Operations and Failure Detection, Isolation and Recovery team, ensuring spacecraft operate in nominal and contingency situations from launch to end of life. Work spans defining operational and FDIR concepts, tuning FDIR monitors, and writing and testing Flight Operations Procedures, collaborating with software, verification and database teams across telecoms, Earth observation and exploration missions.

OneSat Payload · Vigil · ExoMars Rover

• London
• On-site
• Entry level
• Permanent

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

• London
• On-site
• Permanent

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

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

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

• London
• On-site
• Permanent

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

• London
• On-site
• Senior
• Permanent

Lead geodetic processing and analysis of satellite laser ranging data, ensuring it meets international geodetic community standards and becomes trusted products. Define data quality standards, validate against analysis centres, and represent the company in the ILRS, IAG and wider geodetic community while guiding data scientists and engineers on models and algorithms.

GEODYN · Bernese · GipsyX

• London
• On-site
• Permanent

Turn high-volume satellite laser ranging data into geodetic and orbit products, building pipelines from raw returns to normal points and higher-level outputs. Develop statistical methods for bias detection, outlier rejection and quality checks, and analyse station and network performance with a geodesy and orbit determination team.

NumPy · pandas · SciPy +3

• London
• On-site
• Permanent

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

• London
• On-site
• Permanent

Builds the platform that ingests, processes and serves satellite laser ranging tracking data, from ground stations through to customer APIs. Involves designing time-series data models, ingest pipelines, message queues and secure, observable delivery in standard formats, working closely with front-end, geodesy and orbit determination engineers.

Docker · Kubernetes · Kafka +2

• 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
• Permanent

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 ground station deployment. Acts as laser safety subject matter expert and works across optical design, hardware integration and Python-based instrument control in a small startup team.

NumPy · SciPy · Pandas +7

• Chippenham
• Hybrid
• Mid-level
• Permanent

Day-to-day administration of the Spacecraft Control Centre's Linux and Cisco-based command and control systems, including installation, configuration, maintenance and restoration of capability across multiple sites. Acts as lead engineer for rollout plans, system upgrades and test procedures, working closely with the SCOF Engineering team and the customer on fault investigation and rectification.

Red Hat · RHCSA · Cisco +2