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Senior System Engineer

ReOrbit

ReOrbit

Other Engineering, IT
Helsinki, Finland
Posted on Oct 27, 2025
Engineering · Helsinki, Finland · Hybrid

Senior System Engineer

ReOrbit is looking for a motivated Senior Systems Engineer to join our team at our HQ in Helsinki, Finland.

As our Senior Systems Engineer, you will take the lead on designing and developing our systems, whilst supporting and mentoring other members of the team. Your extensive hands-on experience of working on satellite ecosystems means you can start contributing immediately to our projects.

This role requires someone who has worked with stakeholders and defining requirements through design and development of the system, working with suppliers and into AIT, launch and operation phases. It’s a pivotal role, working inter-disciplinarily with the Ground and space subsystems.

It's an exciting chance to join a dynamic start-up, with the opportunity to make a real impact, helping determine how we develop our systems to reach our goal of pushing the boundaries of space communications.

Responsibilities

  • System Design: Support the design, integration, and validation of complex space and ground systems, ensuring that every component works in harmony to meet the projects or product’s objectives.
  • Requirements Engineering: Collaborate closely with stakeholders to define and refine both technical and non-technical requirements, ensuring clarity and alignment with mission goals. CONOPS/OPSCON, use cases development
  • Performing feasibility studies
  • Supporting business development with bids, providing technical information and supporting documentation

Skills and Requirements

Essential

  • At least 6 years' experience working as a systems engineer Satellite industry including simulation infrastructure and system modelling.
  • Full lifecycle awareness, through all phases of a project, from requirements to AIT and launch.
  • NASA Standards: Familiarity with NASA’s systems engineering standards, including NASA Systems Engineering Handbook (SP-6105) and other relevant technical standards.
  • ECSS Standards: Strong understanding of ECSS standards related to systems engineering, particularly ECSS-E-ST-10C (System Engineering General Requirements), and other relevant standards such as ECSS-Q-ST-10C (Product Assurance). Experience applying these standards in the design, development, and validation of space systems.
  • Experience developing and executing verification & validation (V\&V) test plans, procedures, and reports.
  • Ability to plan and execute integration, verification, and validation (IV\&V) test activities.
  • Ability to review, understand, gather and refine stakeholder needs across operations, user, client, and ground segment communities.
  • Familiarity with developing and decomposing technical requirements, conducting feasibility analyses, and supporting conceptual design activities.
  • Working knowledge of trade-off analyses, feasibility studies, and conceptual design reviews.
  • Experience with spacecraft and ground system models (e.g., Flight Dynamics, AOCS, propulsion, thermal, payload, TT&C, etc.).
  • Strong communication and collaboration skills to interface with software engineers, technical managers, product assurance and configuration/documentation management (CADM).
  • Proven ability to perform integration, verification, and validation testing in complex systems.
  • Experience with evaluating simulation infrastructure, spacecraft, and ground system models.

Desired

  • Experience working on geo-stationary communication satellite projects
  • Holistic thinking: Ability to approach problems and solutions with a comprehensive view, understanding how all subsystems and components interact within the larger system to achieve overall objectives. The candidate should be able to consider not just the technical aspects but also operational, environmental, and human factors in decision-making.

What does ReOrbit do?

ReOrbit builds the foundation for the next generation of space applications by transforming satellites into truly intelligent, interconnected platforms, defined by software. Our satellite design philosophy revolves around the idea that satellites must network, communicate with each other and thus improve mission efficiency. How can this be achieved? Thanks to a flexible software-first architecture, where all these aspects are dealt with upfront in the mission concept, as integrated functionalities.

ReOrbit’s top-notch team of software engineers and system architects develop in-house software, procure hardware from the best-in-class suppliers, and seamlessly integrate the components to create flexible and secure satellites. Today, we are a rapidly growing company building a very strong multidisciplinary team to support our activities. We are headquartered in Helsinki, Finland with a subsidiary in Bariloche, Argentina.

Working at ReOrbit

At ReOrbit, we are focused on building a strong team as we believe nothing can be accomplished without innovative, humble and curious minds working together on a common goal. We’re all about fostering an inclusive, dynamic environment where equality and diversity are our strength.

We offer

  • Challenging but rewarding environment – you will thrive if you are always reflecting on how to make things better. Your ideas will be heard.
  • Ambitious and supportive network of people, who are motivated to change the space industry, bringing expertise from both classic and new space .
  • Benefits such as lunch vouchers, events, parties, occupational health care and additional health insurance - but most importantly a possibility to be a part of a unique and diverse team, connected by similar mindset and sense of humor.
  • We like to spend time together! You can choose activities whichever is to your liking – runOrbit, climbOrbit; become ping pong or board games champion.
  • We support relocation and integration into Finnish society, find some experiences about relocation here

Please, submit your application as soon as possible - we are excited to hear from you and can’t wait to discover your unique skills and experiences.

For agencies: We do not accept unsolicited CVs for our open vacancies. Any CV sent to our team unsolicited will reserve us the right to pursue a candidate without obligation to the sender. All candidate submissions must be conducted through our official channels and in accordance with our terms of engagement.

Department
Engineering
Locations
Helsinki, Finland
Remote status
Hybrid

About ReOrbit

Today we are a rapidly growing company and building a very strong multidisciplinary team to support our activities. We are headquartered in Helsinki, Finland with a subsidiary in Bariloche, Argentina.

Join us in our journey of building software-enabled satellites for secure communications
and, thus, creating the most compelling in-space data flow company of the new space era.

Founded in 2019
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