UK Space Jobs

• 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

• Guildford
• Hybrid
• Senior
• Permanent

Translate high-level requirements into robust architectures for secure geospatial software on government and MOD ISR projects. Use MBSE modelling to establish end-to-end traceability and modernise historic architecture, with a focus on security, scalability and reuse. Work in a collaborative Agile scrum team of testers, developers, lead engineers and project managers.

MBSE

• Newcastle upon Tyne
• Hybrid
• Senior
• Permanent

Translate high-level requirements into robust architectures for secure geospatial software on government and MOD ISR projects. Use MBSE modelling to establish end-to-end traceability and modernise historic architecture, with a focus on security, scalability and reuse. Work in a multi-functional agile scrum team alongside testers, developers and product owners.

MBSE

• London
• Hybrid
• Senior

Build and maintain backend systems for a temporospatial software-defined networking platform used in satellite and airborne mesh networks. Work on orchestration and management of planetary mesh networks spanning land, sea, air and space, using technology originally acquired from Google.

• Yeovil
• Senior

Coordinates electronics and software engineering projects within the Electronic Controllers team at an aerospace site. Suits an engineer with project coordination experience or a project manager with electronics/software background, bridging technical engineering work and project delivery.

• London
• Hybrid

Join a team building and operating temporospatial software-defined networking platforms for aerospace mesh networks, spanning satellite, airborne, and deep-space communications. The role focuses on reliability engineering for orchestration systems that manage planetary mesh networks across any spectrum, orbit, or hardware.

• Cambridge
• Hybrid
• Senior
• Permanent

Design and develop analogue, digital and mixed-signal electronic systems across the full product lifecycle, from concept to volume manufacture. Work in a multidisciplinary team with RF, software, firmware and mechanical engineers on telecoms, space, defence and high-altitude platform products, owning system-level architecture, integration, verification and EMC/safety compliance.

PCIe · USB · Ethernet +6

• Wiltshire
• Senior
• Contract

Lead propulsion system development from concept through qualification and in-service support, integrating gas turbine, rocket, reciprocating, battery-electric and emerging technologies. Own requirements, architecture, interfaces and configuration control while leading testing programmes and mentoring engineers across multidisciplinary teams.

Gas Turbine · Rocket · Reciprocating Engine +1

• West Yorkshire
• £32,000 – £48,000 pa

Designs, develops, integrates and tests complex opto-electronic and mechatronic systems for mission-critical space, defence and advanced technology applications. Works within multidisciplinary teams on optical, electronic, mechanical and software integration, plus measurement, control and test systems, verification and performance analysis. Suits engineers with high-reliability, precision instrumentation or space-qualified hardware experience.

Automated Test Equipment

• Oakley
• Director · manages people

Lead the Systems Engineering discipline for a defence and aerospace business unit, setting technical vision, governance and methodologies for complex solutions. Own lifecycle management activities including bids, design reviews and audits, while driving Model-Based Systems Engineering and digital transformation. Manage and mentor a team of engineers and SMEs, acting as senior escalation point for architectural and System of Systems issues.

MBSE

• Fareham
• Senior

Designs and implements scalable, secure IT solution architectures that align business needs with technical capabilities, producing diagrams, models and documentation. Works with stakeholders, developers and project managers to define architectural principles, assess emerging technologies and guide implementation, with a focus on APIs, microservices and integration patterns.

AWS · Azure · TOGAF +1

• Chippenham
• £42 ph

On behalf of our client, we are seeking to recruit a SCC Database Manager on an initial 6 -month contract. As the SCC Database Manager you will support the administration, maintenance, and configuration of mission-critical database systems within a spacecraft…

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

Builds and maintains programme controls for a portfolio of complex, multi-year satellite and government contracts, working alongside Delivery Project Managers. Responsible for schedule baselining, critical path analysis, cost performance tracking and configuring dashboards in a project management platform, with scope to design new frameworks and tooling from scratch.

MS Project · Databricks · Power BI

• Derby
• Hybrid
• Senior

Lead quantum computing research at Rolls-Royce, developing error-corrected algorithms and hybrid quantum-classical workflows for aerospace design. Work spans quantum chemistry, linear equation solvers, tensor networks and HPC emulation, collaborating with quantum companies, universities and government labs.

PennyLane · QuEST · Azure DevOps +1