Senior Systems Engineer (Aerospace)

TL;DR

Senior Systems Engineer (Aerospace): Developing and integrating spacecraft and lunar rover systems for planetary exploration missions with an accent on requirements management, system-level trade-offs, mission operations, and verification planning. Focus on designing system simulations, resolving integration anomalies, defining interfaces, and balancing ECSS compliance, risk, schedule, and cost.

Location: On-site in Luxembourg, with occasional travel to hirify.global offices, vendors, instrument providers, events, and conferences.

Company

hirify.global develops lunar landers and rovers to support sustainable lunar exploration and the emerging lunar economy, with operations across Japan, Luxembourg, and the United States.

What you will do

• Perform system-level trade-offs, manage requirements, and coordinate design inputs across engineering disciplines.
• Develop rover mission concepts of operations, system-sizing simulations, configuration studies, and mission design verification and validation logic.
• Define spacecraft and payload interfaces, author interface documentation, and coordinate technical development with instrument providers and lander teams.
• Plan and execute assembly, integration, and testing activities, troubleshooting anomalies and non-conformances.
• Prepare systems engineering plans, project documentation, customer deliverables, and technical review materials.
• Improve systems engineering processes and tools while supporting mission planning, customer proposals, feasibility studies, and resource estimation.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Aerospace Engineering, or an equivalent discipline.
• 5–7 years of experience in the aerospace industry.
• Strong understanding of systems engineering processes, spacecraft systems, subsystems, payload design, assembly, and testing.
• Practical experience in avionics or payload electronics, electrical power, communications and RF, mechanical or thermal analysis, or aerospace integration and testing.
• Ability to independently plan and execute complex technical work in a multidisciplinary environment.
• Strong command of English is required.

Nice to have

• Experience with concept of operations, functional analysis, specifications, procedures, and requirements management.
• Hands-on laboratory, prototyping, assembly, integration, and test experience.
• Knowledge of spacecraft subsystems, interfaces, operations, instrumentation, sensor physics, lunar science, or ISRU processes.
• Experience with FMECA, FDIR, reliability or hazard analysis, and engineering software architecture.
• Familiarity with ECSS, MIL-STD, or comparable spacecraft design and test standards.

Culture & Benefits

• Work alongside engineers, business experts, and creatives on lunar exploration missions.
• Collaborate with a global team spanning Europe, Japan, and the United States.
• Operate in a fast-moving environment focused on innovation, ownership, and practical systems engineering.
• Travel occasionally to company offices, vendors, instrument providers, events, and conferences.