Space Avionics Systems Architect

Location: Onsite in Friedrichshafen, Bremen, or Munich, Germany; relocation support is available.

Company

Boutique consultancy delivering IT professional services and engineering talent solutions for high-performing technical teams.

What you will do

• Lead end-to-end spacecraft avionics architecture definition and system decomposition.
• Define interface strategies across on-board computers, payloads, processors, FPGAs, and SoCs.
• Architect high-speed networking, payload backplanes, boot concepts, and system recovery mechanisms.
• Design FDIR strategies, including safe-mode behavior and watchdog concepts.
• Maintain architecture baselines, diagrams, and technical design justifications.
• Perform radiation-tolerance, EMI/EMC, signal-integrity, and power-distribution analyses while collaborating with GNC, RF, software, FPGA, and mechanical engineering teams.

Requirements

• EU passport required.
• Fluent English required.
• Master’s degree in Aerospace Engineering, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, or an equivalent field.
• 10+ years of experience in spacecraft avionics, high-speed digital electronics, or complex embedded hardware systems.
• Experience architecting distributed systems with processors, FPGAs/SoCs, and high-speed interfaces.
• Expertise with ATOP, MOIS, EGS-CC operations procedure language/EAPL, ECSS PUS, and ECSS-E-ST-70 guidance.

Nice to have

• Knowledge of German.

Culture & Benefits

• Contractor agreement for a full-time, multi-year engagement.
• Onsite work at aerospace locations in Germany.
• Relocation support is available.
• Collaboration across multidisciplinary spacecraft engineering teams.