Senior Architect, Systems Verification & Validation, meoSphere (Satellite Systems)

Location: Betzdorf, Luxembourg or McLean, United States; 60% onsite from the office, with travel as required.

Salary: $121,000–$190,000 annually for the USA full-time position.

Company

SES develops satellite connectivity services, including the meoSphere next-generation Medium Earth Orbit constellation for government, enterprise, and commercial customers.

What you will do

• Lead system integration, testing, verification, and validation across spacecraft, ground systems, terminals, networks, software, operations, laboratories, and suppliers.
• Develop verification and validation strategies, plans, technical analyses, scenarios, success criteria, and closure approaches.
• Define verification methods, coverage requirements, data needs, pass/fail measures, and evidence standards.
• Lead verification reviews, validation assessments, evidence-sufficiency evaluations, and delegated SI&T closure determinations.
• Validate end-to-end mission and service performance under representative operating conditions.
• Maintain traceability from requirements and mission objectives through activities, evidence packages, decisions, and closure recommendations.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Aerospace, Telecommunications, Computer Science, Systems Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• At least 10 years of experience in systems integration, verification and validation, requirements management, testing, or related engineering functions involving complex hardware and software systems.
• Technical leadership experience driving verification and compliance activities across multidisciplinary teams and suppliers.
• Strong knowledge of requirements management, traceability, interface control, configuration management, technical risk management, and evidence-based decision-making.
• Experience establishing verification frameworks, compliance tracking, and requirements traceability processes.
• Excellent technical writing, facilitation, stakeholder engagement, and executive communication skills.
• Experience in space systems, satellite communications, ground systems, mission operations, telecommunications, or other mission-critical engineering programs.
• Familiarity with systems engineering practices, requirements and test management tools, hardware-in-the-loop environments, simulators, digital engineering, and MBSE.
• Must be eligible for a “SECRET” security clearance under applicable national regulations and EU/ESA/NATO equivalents.

Nice to have

• Experience with end-to-end system verification, supplier verification management, flight verification planning, or product acceptance activities.

Culture & Benefits

• Permanent, full-time employment.
• Work 60% onsite from the office.
• Travel is required as needed for project realization.
• Work emphasizes ownership, systems thinking, evidence-driven decisions, technical leadership through influence, and cross-disciplinary collaboration.
• Additional compensation and benefits may apply depending on location and employment terms.