Systems Architect

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United Kingdom.

📋 Description

• Define the comprehensive spacecraft architecture, ensuring it aligns with mission objectives, constraints, and performance requirements.

• Lead the creation of system-level concepts, encompassing functional breakdowns, subsystem interactions, and high-level design flows.

• Take ownership of and maintain the technical baseline, ensuring consistency across electrical, mechanical, RF, software, thermal, and payload domains.

• Develop and manage system specifications, architectural documentation, and interface definitions.

• Conduct trade-off analyses, assessing design options in terms of performance, reliability, mass, power, and cost.

• Assist in identifying risks, formulating mitigation strategies, and making architectural decisions that affect mission reliability.

• Oversee system-level verification and validation processes, ensuring the architecture is fully testable and compliant.

• Collaborate with AIT, mission operations, and engineering teams to maintain architectural consistency throughout development and testing.

• Provide senior technical leadership, mentoring engineers and shaping long-term architectural strategies.

⛳️ Requirements

• Required experience in the space industry — direct involvement in spacecraft architecture, satellite systems, or mission-critical space hardware.

• Demonstrated experience in defining system architectures for complex aerospace or space platforms.

• Strong comprehension of subsystem domains (electrical, mechanical, RF, software, thermal, payload).

• Proficient in producing system-level documentation, specifications, and architectural models.

• Excellent analytical skills for trade studies, risk assessment, and architectural decision-making.

• Capability to coordinate across multidisciplinary engineering teams and promote system-level coherence.

• Experience in supporting system-level verification, validation, and design reviews.

• A Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Engineering, or equivalent military experience.

🏝️ Benefits

• Private Medical Insurance

• Cycle & Tech Scheme

• Employee assistance programme

• Life insurance & Pension Scheme

• Social atmosphere, regular gatherings & team buildings

• Flexible way of working (role dependent)