Start Date: ASAP
Location: Darmstadt, Germany
Working hours: Full time, 40h/week
Submission Deadline: 2026-09-09
About SSC Space:
Welcome to SSC – Swedish Space Corporation, the perfect workplace for those passionate about technology in general and space in particular. With space organizations, research institutes, institutional and commercial actors as customers, we offer specialist expertise in satellite communications, space consulting services, rocket and balloon systems, flight test services, satellite propulsion systems, and much more.
SSC also has one of the world’s largest global networks of ground stations for satellite communications. We own and operate the Esrange Space Center in Kiruna, northern Sweden, with the aim of launching satellites in the near future.
We are looking for a Space Systems & IV&V Engineer to support the development, integration, verification and validation of systems and ground segments for Copernicus Earth observation missions.
The engineer will work across System, Ground Segment and Ground Segment Element levels, supporting activities from requirements definition and preliminary design through integration, acceptance testing, verification and preparation for operations.
- University degree in Aerospace Engineering, Telecommunications, Computer Science, Physics or a related technical discipline, together with relevant experience in space systems engineering, ground segment engineering and/or IV&V.
- Systems Engineering and IV&V for Earth observation or other space missions.
- Ground segment integration and end-to-end verification.
- Mission data processing systems and processing chains.
- Requirements engineering and traceability using tools such as DOORS.
- Formal testing, including FAT, OSAT, TRR and TRB activities.
- Verification Control Documents and formal verification control processes.
- Interface definition and Interface Control Documents.
- Test data, simulators and test tools.
- Linux-based environments and basic scripting, particularly Python and Bash.
- Automated testing and CI/CD environments such as GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins or Docker.
- MBSE, SysML and modelling tools such as Enterprise Architect.
- Configuration-controlled operational or pre-operational environments.
- Fluency in written and spoken English.
- Knowledge of ECSS, CCSDS, CFDP, spacecraft/ground segment operations, mission control systems, or mission product processing is an advantage.
