Head of System Engineering

Helsinki, Finland · Hybrid

ReOrbit is looking for a Head of System Engineering to lead system engineering team. As our Head of System Engineering, you will be responsible for driving end to end system architecture, ensuring requirements integrity, and enabling effective coordination across all technical domains.

This is an exciting opportunity to join a fast growing company and work on next generation satellite platforms where communication reliability is mission critical from day one.

Responsibilities

• Lead system engineering across the space and ground segment, ensuring a consistent end to end architectural approach

• Own and maintain requirements integrity from customer needs through system, subsystem, and verification levels

• Own system budgets (mass, power, data rate, performance, margins) and ensure their consistency throughout the lifecycle

• Drive system level coordination and alignment across Payload, AOCS, Propulsion, Flight Software, AIT, Operations, and related domains

• Establish and maintain system engineering processes, workflows, and standards across distributed teams

• Provide technical direction and ensure high quality system level decision making across programs

• Build, mentor, and develop a high performing system engineering team across multiple locations

• Support hiring and growth of the system engineering function in line with company needs

Skills and Requirements

• Experience as Leader for System Engineering teams on multiple spacecraft programs that reached orbit

• Experience across full lifecycle from early design through in-orbit validation, including long lifetime missions (LEO/GEO)

• Hands on experience applying ECSS-E-ST-10C and related ECSS standards in real projects

• Practical familiarity with NASA Systems Engineering Handbook (SP-6105) in applied engineering contexts

• Experience leading system level V&V and IV&V activities

• Experience with trade offs, feasibility studies, and architectural decision making under constraints

• Ability to translate customer and operational needs into clear, implementable system requirements

• Strong communication skills across engineering teams, management, and external stakeholders

• Solid understanding of satellite subsystems and their interactions

• Experience with satellite level testing and validation

• Production oriented mindset with focus on scalability and delivery.

What does ReOrbit do?

ReOrbit builds the foundation for the next generation of space applications by transforming satellites into truly intelligent, interconnected platforms, defined by software. Our satellite design philosophy revolves around the idea that satellites must network, communicate with each other and thus improve mission efficiency. How can this be achieved? Thanks to a flexible software-first architecture, where all these aspects are dealt with upfront in the mission concept, as integrated functionalities.

ReOrbit's top-notch team of software engineers and system architects develop in-house software, procure hardware from the best-in-class suppliers, and seamlessly integrate the components to create flexible and secure satellites. Today, we are a rapidly growing company building a very strong multidisciplinary team to support our activities. We are headquartered in Helsinki, Finland with a subsidiaries in Bristol, UK and Bariloche, Argentina.

Working at ReOrbit

At ReOrbit, we are focused on building a strong team as we believe nothing can be accomplished without innovative, humble and curious minds working together on a common goal. We're all about fostering an inclusive, dynamic environment where equality and diversity are our strength.

We offer

• Challenging but rewarding environment – you will thrive if you are always reflecting on how to make things better. Your ideas will be heard.

• Ambitious and supportive network of people, who are motivated to change the space industry, bringing expertise from both classic and new space .

• Benefits such as lunch vouchers, events, parties, occupational health care and additional health insurance - but most importantly a possibility to be a part of a unique and diverse team, connected by similar mindset and sense of humor.

• We like to spend time together! You can choose activities whichever is to your liking – runOrbit, climbOrbit; become ping pong or board games champion.

• We support relocation and integration into Finnish society.

Join us in our journey of building software enabled satellites for secure communications and, thus, creating the most compelling in space data flow company of the new space era.

For agencies: We do not accept unsolicited CVs for our open vacancies. Any CV sent to our team unsolicited will reserve us the right to pursue a candidate without obligation to the sender. All candidate submissions must be conducted through our official channels and in accordance with our terms of engagement.

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Helsinki, Finland · Hybrid