Space Platform Systems Engineer (m/f/d) - #2778403

About Starflight Dynamics

Starflight Dynamics (SFDY) is a Munich-based SpaceTech company building the foundational technologies for Europe's next generation of orbital infrastructure. Founded in 2023, we develop dual-use systems for space and defence: a green, water-based orbital propulsion stack and modular platforms for in-orbit operations.Working with partners such as the University of the German Armed Forces in Munich and the BAAINBw, we're a small, ambitious team moving fast from prototype to orbit. Join us and help shape how Europe operates, and defends its interests, in space.

Mission & responsibilities

You will start on OVERWATCH, our demonstration mission, and help take it from design to orbit. At the same time this is a general systems engineer role for space platforms, and you grow with the platforms that follow.

System design & requirements

• Contribute to the platform system design, initially for the OVERWATCH demonstration mission, from mission requirements to architecture and subsystem specifications
• Maintain the system budgets (mass, power, propellant, link, pointing) and prepare the trade-offs behind them
• Support the demonstration plan: the systems, modes and manoeuvres the OVERWATCH demonstration must prove in orbit

Integration & verification

• Support the integration of our own propulsion and payloads with commercial subsystems into one platform, and keep the interface-control documentation up to date
• Prepare system-level verification and test plans together with AIT
• Support launch preparation and early in-orbit operations

Collaboration

• Work with Propulsion, Payloads and mission preparation in Vilnius so that platform, payload and mission fit from the start
• Contribute technical content to reviews, proposals and customer reporting

What we are looking for

Must have

• 2-4 years of spacecraft or satellite systems engineering, or equivalent project and thesis work on space hardware
• Hands-on experience with requirements, budgets, interfaces or verification on a space platform
• A structured, careful way of working, and the drive to grow into a systems engineer’s ownership
• Fluent English

Nice to have

• German
• Experience with manoeuvring platforms, proximity operations or propulsion integration
• Launch campaign and early-operations (LEOP) experience
• Familiarity with ECSS standards

What we offer

• A challenging position in the space industry with high responsibilities
• A permanent contract and 30 days of vacation
• Flexible hours
• Employee benefits, such as fitness programmes, mobility allowance, and shopping vouchers
• Access to the company's virtual share options programme

Diversity & Encouragement to apply

Research shows that people from underrepresented groups are statistically less likely to apply for a role unless they meet every single requirement listed. If that's you — but you're genuinely excited about building the foundations of Europe's orbital infrastructure — we'd strongly encourage you to apply anyway. We care more about drive and capability than a perfect match on paper.

We believe diversity of background and perspective drives better engineering and better decisions, and we welcome applications regardless of gender, age, nationality, disability, religion, or sexual orientation. Severely disabled applicants will be given preference where equally qualified.

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