Systems Engineer - AIT & GSE

About the role

The Systems Engineer will support the definition, integration, and verification of Assembly, Integration, and Test (AIT) activities and Ground Support Equipment (GSE) for an orbital rocket programme. This role involves translating vehicle and subsystem needs into clear requirements for test setups, tooling, interfaces, and operational procedures while working across multidisciplinary teams. It is a hands-on position focused on ensuring flight hardware and assembly systems function effectively together.

Responsibilities

• Capture, define, and manage AIT and GSE requirements derived from vehicle, subsystem, manufacturing, and test needs.
• Define and maintain key interfaces between flight hardware, GSE, tooling, test facilities, avionics, software, propulsion, and operations.
• Develop system architectures, interface definitions, requirements specifications, verification matrices, and other supporting systems documentation.
• Identify requirements for tooling, fixtures, handling equipment, electrical and data connections, instrumentation, facilities, and test infrastructure.
• Support vehicle integration, test planning, readiness reviews, procedure development, and the verification of AIT and GSE systems.
• Track system-level issues, interface actions, assumptions, and dependencies through to resolution in collaboration with the relevant technical teams.

Required skills

• Systems engineering
• AIT
• Integration
• Test engineering
• GSE
• Requirements management
• Interface management
• Technical documentation

Nice to have

• Launch vehicles
• Spacecraft
• Propulsion systems
• Defence systems
• Missiles
• Model-based systems engineering
• SysML
• CAD
• PLM
• Python

Qualifications

• Degree in systems engineering, aerospace engineering, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, or a related discipline
• Equivalent practical experience

Benefits

• Stock options
• Relocation support
• Flights
• Shipping
• Visa support
• Daily meals
• Shared company housing

About the Company

We are a Germany-based rocketry startup currently in stealth mode, scaling up rapidly to meet the demand for high-performance, reliable, and scalable solid propulsion technologies for space and defense applications. We are already launching suborbital and ballistic rockets on a regular basis and applying our knowledge toward the development of an orbital rocket.