Optical Payload Project Manager
Infinite Orbits
Operations
Toulouse, France
Posted on Sep 6, 2025
To apply, contact Wilfried JAHN : wilfried@infiniteorbits.io
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JOB DESC
Project Management Responsibilities
Project Oversight :
- Manage timelines, budgets, and resources to ensure the quality-controlled delivery of optical payloads on schedule and within scope,
- Serve as a liaison between multidisciplinary teams, external suppliers, and stakeholders, ensuring clear communication and effective problem resolution.
Quality Control and Acceptance Testing : from Engineering Model to Flight Model delivery
- Define acceptance test procedures to validate end-to-end system performance before delivery,
- Oversee documentation and reporting of results from optical qualification and acceptance tests, ensuring adherence to quality standards.
Technical Responsibilities
System-level architecture :
- Lead the development of optical payload (camera, flashlight) and related OGSE,
- Lead the design upgrade of optical payload architecture,
- Lead opto-mechanical analysis, including thermal and structural impact on optical system performance,
Performance Qualification and Testing:
- Lead the procurement of Flight Models, vendor coordination, delivery, acceptance testing, installation, verification, validation, qualification, and certification,
- Lead the optical payload’s test definition and performance qualification plan,
- Lead the electro-optical characterization of CMOS image sensor,
- Supervise qualification environmental test to validate top-level system performance and ensure compliance with mission requirements.
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PROFILE
Soft Skills
- Strong technical project management skills, with experience managing resources, schedules, suppliers, and deliverables in a fast-paced startup environment.
- Excellent communication and organizational skills, with the ability to coordinate multidisciplinary teams and stakeholders.
- Proactive, detail-oriented, and adaptable to the challenges of a startup environment.
- Fluent in English
Tech Skills
- Good knowledge in optical payload development and testings,
- Background in optics, opto-mechanics, camera software or electronics is a real plus