Systems Engineer – Planetary Exploration (female/male)

Kayser-Threde is a medium-sized space company located in Munich and is system prime for complex scientific instruments, small satellites and space missions.

- We play a leading role in national and international space projects
- We create superior systems in optics, electronics, robotics and mechanics
- We transfer space technology into industrial applications
- We meet customer demands – both in space and on earth

This success is owed to exceptional employees and their passion for innovation and creating outstanding space systems.

To support our Systems Engineering Office, we are looking for an

Systems Engineer – Planetary Exploration (female/male)

In this position you shall become the technical responsible Systems Engineer for one of our Planetary Exploration projects.

Your Tasks:

• Technical coordination of a multidiscipline engineering team, acting as engineering focal point and perform activities concerning the product as a whole
• Ensure design integrity, perform requirements analysis and design integration
• Ensure proper flow-down and allocation of lower level subs-system requirements and budgets and maintain them up to date during the program lifetime
• To be responsible for the definition and specification of interfaces including margins and associated documentation
• Support the engineering team for design trade-offs between disciplines such as thermal, structural, mechanical, optical, electrical, etc.
• Participate in trade-offs and technical budget allocation
• Support technical discussion with the customer
• Provide and coordinate support to subcontractors selection and control

Your Profile:

• University or polytechnic degree in Physics or Engineering
• Advanced experience as Systems Engineer or Design Responsible for scientific space exploration mechanisms or adequate technology and complexity
• Experience in engineering economics
• Organised and structured task approach, experience in technical coordination of a multidisciplinary international engineering team
• Good communication and negotiation skills
• Fluent in English in reading and writing

An advantage would be:

• Ideally, experience in the development logic of Space Instruments, Earth Observation and Astronomy from in Phases 0 to B2, as well as significant Hardware experience in the Phases C and D.
• Additional experience or knowledge in:
• Cleanliness and contamination engineering
• Reliability, availability maintainability and safety system engineering
• Working Experience with Systems Engineering Tool DOORS
• Further foreign language(s)

At Kayser-Threde you can expect a performance related salary, above average social benefits, personal freedom, a generous flexible time programme, and a varied and interesting job in an established systems company in the area of space technology.

Have we aroused your interest?
If so, we would be pleased to receive your detailed application stating your project references, salary expectations and your earliest available starting date. With reference hereto, we kindly request you to submit a document in pdf-format with a file size of not more than 4 MB. Your application may be in German or English.

Kayser-Threde GmbH
HR Department
Perchtinger Straße 5
81379 München
E-Mail: jobs@kayser-threde.com

www.kayser-threde.com