Senior Systems Engineer

We are seeking a Senior Altitude and Orbit Control Systems (AOCS) Engineer to support a space programme, providing specialist analysis, design, simulation and verification of the spacecraft's Attitude and Orbit Control System.

The engineer will work within the Airbus engineering environment, supporting AOCS development from control-system analysis and modelling through to software implementation, functional verification and system performance assessment.

Key responsibilities include:

• AOCS modelling, analysis and control-law development
• MATLAB/Simulink modelling and simulation
• C development and model-based/autocode generation
• Unit testing and functional validation
• AOCS performance and verification campaigns
• Analysis of simulation and test results
• Requirements verification and technical documentation
• Engineering management using Jira and Confluence

We're looking for strong experience in:

• Spacecraft AOCS or GNC
• Control engineering and dynamic systems
• MATLAB and Simulink
• C programming
• Model-based design/autocoding
• Simulation and verification
• Functional and unit testing
• Performance analysis

This is a senior technical position suited to an engineer capable of working independently across the complete analysis, design, implementation and verification lifecycle of a spacecraft control system.