Head of Space Engineering

SpaceLocker makes satellite missions more efficient and sustainable through in-orbit payload hosting: any organization can send sensors or experiments into space without worrying about the technical side, while gaining performance and reducing emissions and debris. Our technology stack, combining proprietary hardware with cloud-inspired software, creates a true "space USB" with revolutionary plug-and-play.

Far from dog-picture blockchains or lunar hotels, we are building a solid company, a foundation for the next era of space exploration, driven by technical expertise, rapid prototyping, and a direct link to the market.

SpaceLocker is committed to diversity and inclusion — age, gender, origin, disability (with a slight irony, our founding team being the most "average white guys" imaginable 😀). Progress and inclusion require real effort and compromise, not just words.

You must hold citizenship from a country of the European Union, or listed under EU General Export Clause 1, to the exception of the USA, to apply to this position.

We are opening a Head of Engineering position to structure and lead the entire technical team — hardware, embedded software, and production. You will be the internal technical authority, the bridge between R&D and industrialization, and the driving force behind team dynamics.

Your missions

You will be in contact with all SpaceLocker’s technical teams to:

• Lead and manage a multidisciplinary engineering team (hardware, electronics, embedded software, mechanics), while maintaining high standards and a strong collective dynamic

• Act as the team’s technical reference, arbitrating key choices related to architecture, materials, components and processes

• Drive the scale-up of SpaceLocker’s production and industrialization capabilities

• Ensure and maintain the team’s rigor across specification, design and AIV activities

• Own the engineering product roadmap in close collaboration with the CTO

• Structure product line management with an end-to-end system vision

• Take part in HR reviews, performance assessments and technical recruiting within the engineering team

• Help unblock critical technical issues to maintain the team’s execution speed and delivery momentum

The plus sides:

• You will work on multiple missions and projects simultaneously, each at a different level of maturity – from R&D to in-orbit operations, including AIT and systems engineering – and often with extremely short timelines from paper to orbit

• You will join a fast-moving company and play a key role in shaping its growth and its contribution to innovative aerospace solutions

• You will have the opportunity to work at the heart of the space ecosystem, interacting with payload and platform manufacturers, operators and institutions, and contributing to some of the most advanced technologies in the industry

This list is neither exhaustive nor exclusive. If you think you’re a good fit, even without matching every requirement, we’d love to hear from you.

Hard skills

• about 10 years of experience in space or avionics engineering, with a broad technical view and/or strong industrial focus (systems architect, C-D phases, AIT),

• Proven experience managing a technical team in the space or aerospace sector,

• Broad culture of both space hardware (electronics & mechanics, prototyping & qualification) and embedded software, and technical skills about space-specific issues,

• Ideally : product line management experience at a prime or a New Space player

• Fluent English, basic French is a bonus

Soft skills

• Natural leadership, able to bring energy and momentum to a team

• Autonomous and accountable

• Rigorous, able to bring structure without adding bureaucracy

• Strong communicator, comfortable in an international environment