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Day to day responsibilities
- Build the team. Hire, lead, and grow a multidisciplinary team of engineers and technicians responsible for building and qualifying new subsystem and satellite generations. Hiring great people is a core part of the job, not a side hustle.
- Own the build schedule end-to-end. Plan and execute prototype satellite builds, drive milestones, anticipate slips, and balance engineering rigor with aggressive timelines.
- Run the full qualification campaign — functional testing, environmental testing (thermal-vacuum, vibration), and any sensor-specific verification — until the satellite is flight-ready.
- Stand up the test infrastructure your team will depend on. Define, source, and build out the GSE, fixtures, harnesses, and test facilities needed to qualify each new generation.
- Lead fast, rigorous problem-solving. When something fails on the bench or in the chamber, you're the one driving root-cause analysis and corrective actions — and feeding the lessons back into the design.
- Drive design maturity, manufacturability, and testability before handover to Global Manufacturing.
- Lead the transfer to Manufacturing. Hand over design data packages, work instructions, tooling, and assembly procedures to Global Manufacturing sites, and support them through first-article production and ramp-up.
- Adapt and build out the build and qualification playbook for this product line — borrowing from what already works elsewhere in the company, and improving as we scale.
- Report progress, risks, and key metrics clearly to senior leadership and program stakeholders.
Requirements:Must have skills
- You have an engineering degree (Aerospace, Mechanical, Electrical, or related) — or equivalent work experience.
- You bring significant hands-on experience in satellite AIT (Assembly, Integration, and Testing).
- You have proven people-management experience leading multidisciplinary engineering teams — including hiring and scaling teams from a small base.
- You have a demonstrated track record of transitioning products from engineering prototype to serial manufacturing.
- You have a proven track record of delivering on extremely short timelines — preferably in new-space or a similarly high-tempo environment — and you know how to balance engineering rigor with the realities of an aggressive schedule.
- You're comfortable in ambiguity and energised by standing up new capability rather than inheriting a finished one.
Nice to have skills
- Hands-on experience building, integrating, or testing optical satellites or optical payloads.
- Strong understanding of space product qualification processes, including subsystems and complete satellites.
Application process
- Talent Acquisition Interview
- Hiring Manager Interview
- Technical Interview (onsite or virtual), including a Technical Challenge
- Hiring Team Interview
- Offer Decision
Working at ICEYEAt ICEYE, you’ll join a diverse and highly engaged team united by the ambition to make the impossible possible. As a global scale-up, we combine speed and ambition with the opportunity to take real ownership from day one. Your growth, wellbeing, and success are a priority, with continuous professional development, training opportunities, and a culture where collaboration is how we win.
How We Work (Our Values)Make the impossible possible: We set ambitious goals and stay calm under pressure. We bring grit, optimism, and ownership when things get hard, and we keep moving until we find a way.
- Be curious: Go deep, ask questions, listen carefully, and think critically. Understand the “why” behind decisions.
- See the big picture: Stay close to what’s happening across the company so you can make better decisions. Consider how your work affects others.
- Drive effective teamwork: Create psychological safety, invite different perspectives, and build inclusive teams. There are no bad questions.
- Act as one team: We win together. We match tasks to the right owner and stay agile as priorities shift.
- Have fun: What we do matters—and it should be enjoyable. Celebrate progress, take pride in results, and share the wins.
