UK Space Jobs

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.

Astroscale · Didcot

Lead or support the delivery of space sustainability missions, balancing quality, cost, schedule and risk across matrixed project and engineering teams. The role involves planning project review gates, producing deliverables, and interfacing with customers, suppliers and partners, with reporting to senior management.

Airbus Defence and Space · Chippenham

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.

Saab · Fareham

Servicing, installing, repairing and maintaining Giraffe 1X multi-mission radar and other Saab radar systems, working with high-power AC/DC components, electronics, hydraulics and cooling systems. The role involves on-site customer support, training end users, trials and deployments worldwide, including short-notice travel to high-risk areas, plus system integration and configuration management.

Saab · Oakley

Lead the electronics design and prototyping department for a UAV business, guiding a team of 10+ electronic engineers across multiple programmes. Own hardware design lifecycles from requirements capture to production release, covering digital, mixed-signal, FPGA and high-reliability systems, with review of schematics, PCB layouts and design documentation. Work cross-functionally with systems, software, mechanical and test teams, and support bids and cost estimation.

Airbus Defence and Space · Portsmouth

Bridge the gap between customers and hardware, software, signal processing and applications engineers, defining requirements and maintaining system architecture for SDR-based platforms. Integrate and validate RF front-ends, FPGAs and real-time software stacks, run performance and trade studies, and lead system-level troubleshooting within a start-up-feel R&D group.

Astroscale · Didcot

Develops and maintains flight dynamics software for defence-focused space control missions, specifying algorithms and integrating with an in-house flight dynamics suite. Works in an Agile team with the commercial defence team and Chief Engineer, also supporting bids, customer training and ground segment verification and validation.

ClearSpace · London

Supports the technical development of spacecraft data handling and avionics systems, covering architecture, interfaces and system-level integration across the full mission lifecycle from concept and requirements through design, AIT, launch and in-orbit commissioning. Works closely with subsystem, software and systems engineers, and acts as technical point of contact with project teams, customers and subcontractors.

ClearSpace · London

Support the technical development of spacecraft across the full mission lifecycle, from concept and requirements definition through design, AIT, launch and in-orbit commissioning. Focus on avionics architecture, interfaces and system-level integration, acting as technical point of contact with customers and subcontractors while maintaining electrical budgets and parametric models.

Foundational · London

Operationally responsive member of the Astrodynamics team, monitoring orbit determination and prediction pipelines, identifying failure cases and improving them. Produces white papers and conference papers demonstrating SLR accuracy, supports customers with operational issues, and acts as key contact for ground station teams. Requires Python tooling for rigorous analysis of tracking data.

Foundational · London

Build and maintain a SaaS data platform for satellite laser ranging, working across Python, React and AWS. You'll own both frontend and backend, implement CI/CD and DevOps practices, and collaborate with product to turn user needs into features. As an early team member you'll shape the product and culture.

Aalyria · London

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.

Aalyria · London

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.

University of East Anglia · Norwich · £21,805 pa

Develops heat-transfer science for passive phase-change materials that buffer perovskite solar cells against extreme thermal cycling in Low Earth Orbit. Involves building transient models, formulating high-conductivity PCM composites with industry partners, and applying machine-learning surrogate optimisation, with prototypes tested in vacuum and climatic chambers.

NewOrbit Space · Reading

Owns functional and system-level testing of spacecraft and verification tracking for each satellite campaign, taking satellites from integrated subsystems to flight-ready, fully verified vehicles. Bridges systems engineering, subsystem teams and AIT functions, turning requirements into test procedures, leading test campaigns and closing out requirements with traceable evidence. Hands-on with EGSE, checkout systems and RF test equipment in a SmallSat environment.

Filtronic · Stockton-on-Tees

Hands-on RF test development role focused on building and maintaining automated test solutions using LabVIEW and TestStand. You'll work across the full test lifecycle, from requirements and instrumentation selection to validation, while diagnosing technical issues and analysing test data for internal teams and customers. Based in Sedgefield, collaborating closely with Engineering and Production on high-frequency microwave and millimetre wave products.