Mission Concept Engineer

Open Cosmos

Porto, Portugal

What will you be doing?

You will be leading, co-ordinating and writing proposals to secure future space missions and technology development projects for Open Cosmos.

Primarily, you are entrusted to define a mission concept that leads to a real project. That means interacting with internal teams (system engineering, project management, supply chain) and external stakeholders to shape the technical (space, ground and launch segments) and programmatic aspects of a mission concept.

You’ll also be supporting the wider team by developing tools, analysis and processes to facilitate your primary work such as performing orbital analysis, system engineering trade-off, cost estimations or schedule.

What you need to be successful

Understanding of space missions - A solid general understanding of space missions (e.g. remote sensing, telecommunication, orbital analysis, space system engineering trade-off) is essential to the success of this role.
Strong initiative - An interdisciplinary approach to problem solving, using your background in space engineering or physics to build high-level solutions, translating needs into requirements.
Great mathematical and analytical skills - you will have to solve varied problems like power, delta-V or link budgets, answer questions like “how many satellites are needed to provide given coverage or revisit ?”,“what is the cross-sectional area of a rotating object?” or gathering information from external sources (news, internal intelligence) to provide benchmark analysis or market sizing.
Dealing with ambiguity - You will have to face uncertainties inherent to creating mission concepts, you’ll need to be resourceful and progress despite a level of uncertainty in needs or requirements.
A strong communicator - You’ll be communicating a lot, so be confident in speaking, listening and writing, sometimes within large groups including customers
A keen learner - You’ll be given the opportunity to learn from other teams on a variety of topics, exchanging with them to find the best solution for the whole mission concept, and ultimately project.

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