Principal Engineer: Environmental Verification

About the role

CubeSpace is seeking a Principal Engineer: Environmental Verification to lead the Environmental Verification (EV) functional area. You will be the technical authority for proving that products are fit for orbit and the line manager of the EV technical team. You set the environmental, verification, product qualification, acceptance and reliability test methods and standards, are accountable for the test facilities and give the pass-or-fail sign-off on whether a product meets its requirements. The scope covers shock, vibration, thermal vacuum, radiation, accelerated life, EMC and magnetic cleanliness.

Key responsibilities

• Act as technical authority for all EV work across CubeSpace products and sign off EV content at technical reviews.
• Give the qualification/acceptance pass-or-fail sign-off on whether a product has met its requirements by test.
• Set and maintain environmental, verification, qualification, acceptance and reliability test methods and standards, tailored from ECSS, NASA and MIL standards.
• Be accountable for the environmental test facilities and external test houses, and drive the test-facility business case.
• Line-manage, hire, mentor and grow the EV engineers.
• Lead qualification and acceptance test campaigns, from test plan to signed-off report.
• Model, analyse and correlate structural and thermal behaviour (analytical, numerical, FEM) under shock, vibration and thermal loads.
• Own the area's reusable test procedures, fixtures, models and templates, and feed lessons from products back into the standards.

Required profile

• Master's degree (MEng or MSc) in Mechanical, Mechatronic or Aerospace Engineering, with a focus on structural dynamics, thermal modelling or environmental testing.
• At least 8 years' experience in environmental testing and/or structural and thermal analysis, preferably on space, aerospace or defence hardware.
• Demonstrated leadership of qualification or acceptance test campaigns.
• Experience leading or mentoring engineers.
• Advantageous: radiation, EMC or magnetic testing experience; test-facility commissioning or investment; a PhD in a related field.

What we offer

• Work on global space missions with real impact.
• An R&D team working on ADCS engineering, with a team of over a century of combined experience in control systems and satellite technology.
• Free-form workspaces, a coffee bar, a play room, daily lunch, an attractive leave policy and flexible hours where the role allows.