Upper Parts Product Engineer

🚀 About Us

MaiaSpace is a European space tech company, designing, manufacturing and operating competitive and sustainable solutions for space mobility. We are driven by the belief that access to space is a major enabler for a better and more sustainable life on Earth, addressing the challenges faced by humanity: climate, resources, connectivity, and data. Our aim is to successfully design and test a cost-effective and reusable mini-launch vehicle by 2026.

Upper Parts Product engineer – Full time

We are looking for a Product engineer to join Upper parts team. Upper Parts team is in charge of the development of the structures that will make the interface between the launcher and the various payloads (customer satellites).

In this role, you will be responsible for the design and development of one of the Upper Parts Structures (LVA, PAF, Clamp Band...) from requirement synthesis and follow-up, the partners selection for detailed design and/or manufacturing to the reception and test planification of the parts and prototypes. In strong interaction with the launch system architects, the synthesis of the definition for parts in your perimeter and their interfaces will also be part of your activities.

Job description

Your tasks will be the following:

• Development of upper parts structure. 

  • Definition synthesis including interfaces clarification with other teams and launch system architects.

  • Development plan logic establishment

  • Make or buy strategy proposition & possible partnerships on the products.

  • Design and manufacturing requirements synthesis & adaptation to supplier feed-back

  • Subcontractors and partners follow-up (from RFI, development, production and tests to reception and integration at MaiaSpace Launch site)

  • Participate in the development of hardware demonstration test campaigns (beginning with sub-system test to full scale integrated system) to validate the selected concepts in collaboration with the production teams. 

• Documentation: 

  • Prepare, ensure consistency & validate all documents & reports associated to the structures under its responsibilities.

• Collaboration:

  • Work closely with multi-disciplinary teams, including design, sizing, manufacturing, and testing teams, to ensure all structural requirements are met.

  • Contribute to the engineering effort of your team and cross-functionally between teams, even if it involves work outside your main field of action, in order to contribute to the vehicle system synthesis.

🎓 Qualification

• Education: master's degree in mechanical engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or related field.

• Experience: 3+ years of experience in structure development in the aerospace industry, or related field.

🛸 Background & Skills

• Technical skills:

  • Contribute to the engineering effort of your team and cross-functionally between teams, even if it involves work outside your main field of action, in order to contribute to the vehicle system synthesis.

  • Product Design & conception

  • Structures & mechanisms design & development

  • Contract management

  • Proficiency in CAD tools (SolidWorks, CATIA, ...)

• Problem Solving: Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, with attention to detail in structural assessments.

• Language: Good English level to read and write technical documentation, to perform oral technical presentation and to interact on technical topics

• Communication Skills: written and verbal communication skills to document analysis and communicate technical results effectively.

• Soft skills: Team spirit, sharing and solidarity. Pragmatism, rigor and precision.

🎬 Working at MaiaSpace

You will be joining a friendly multi-disciplinary team, comprised of multi-skilled people, following Agile and Scrum methodologies. This means that your role and responsibility may evolve over time with varied assignments and challenges depending on priorities and competences. Your work will be hands-on and in close contact with the final product. We are open-minded, transparent, pragmatic, result oriented and people centric. Teamwork is at the heart of how we work together, and our co-workers share the same fundamental values: respect, humility, reactivity and autonomy with a passion for technical excellence. Our newly acquired office space at La Defense is located within the heart of Europe’s largest purpose-built business and commercial district with easy access to public transport.

Written and spoken communication are in French and English.