Fluidic Components Technical Owner (Aerospace)

Location: Bordeaux, France or Munich, Germany

Salary: €50,000–€82,500 per year, depending on location and technical merit

Company

The Exploration Company develops aerospace technologies for the future of space transportation.

What you will do

• Own the technical baseline for assigned Nyx Earth fluid-control equipment, including requirements, interfaces, verification methods, qualification logic, review data, and acceptance criteria.
• Maintain system-level oversight of fluidic, mechanical, thermal, electrical, command, cleanliness, materials-compatibility, safety, operations, and integration interfaces.
• Lead technical follow-up of suppliers and manufacturing partners through development, qualification, acceptance, integration, and operations support.
• Review supplier drawings, analyses, procedures, inspection evidence, test results, deviations, and non-conformance inputs.
• Support MAIT/AIT preparation, integration and test procedures, acceptance evidence, flight-operations preparation, flight-data review, and abnormal-behaviour treatment.
• Identify leakage, response, cleanliness, compatibility, lifetime, repeatability, evidence, delivery, and recovery risks early.

Requirements

• Strong aerospace, mechanical, propulsion, fluids, or related engineering background.
• Experience with spacecraft propulsion fluidic components such as valves, regulators, fill/drain equipment, or pressure-control hardware.
• Practical understanding of requirements, verification, cleanliness, materials compatibility, leakage, actuation, testing, qualification, manufacturing support, and failure modes.
• Experience owning technical supplier follow-up for complex hardware across requirements, interfaces, qualification, delivery, integration, and anomaly support.
• Strong communication skills with engineering, procurement, quality, MAIT/AIT, test, program, supplier, manufacturing, and operations stakeholders.
• Fluency in English is required.

Nice to have

• French and/or German language skills.

Culture & Benefits

• Fast decision-making within an Agile environment.
• Open and collaborative work with transparent communication about risks and obstacles.
• Opportunity to contribute to the development of space transportation technologies.
• Relocation assistance is available, including visa sponsorship where applicable.
• Employment is subject to a role- and country-dependent background check.