Develop and operate ground systems for satellite operations, manage project progress, and ensure system functionality.
About this role
Electric Propulsion Engineer on Synspective's Attitude and Orbit Control System (AOCS) team, in Satellite System Development Dept 1. The team designs, develops, tests and maintains sensors, actuators and software controlling satellites, plus the simulation environments for design verification. Analyse, design, test, control and maintain satellite propulsion systems: mission analysis and thruster sizing/supplier selection, orbit-control CONOPS design, integrating thrusters into the satellite with other teams (embedded SW, structure, thermal, electrical, operations), supporting thruster test/verification in AIT, designing flight-software applications for thruster control (nominal, checkout/calibration, FDIR), building thruster simulation models (MILS/HILS), and diagnosing/handling on-orbit anomalies. Requires a bachelor's in mechanical/aerospace/control/electrical engineering and 3+ years of spacecraft electric-propulsion experience. International team. Tokyo; full-time.
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