Electronics Systems Engineer payloads (all genders)
About the job
Electronics Systems Engineer payloads (all genders)
🚀 Challenge the Impossible
About Beyond Gravity
Headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland, Beyond Gravity is not your typical space company. We're a unique blend of agility, speed, and innovation, fusing a start-up mindset with decades of industry expertise and a track record of 100% mission success. Our dynamic team of over 1700 professionals, spread across 13 locations in six countries, is dedicated to pushing the boundaries of what is technically feasible. We're not just building crucial products for the satellites and launchers industry, we’re helping to improve life on earth.
Your Crew:
(Electronics System Engineer - payloads)
You’ll be part of an energetic team of six experts for Payload product developments for Satellites in Vienna. Your role will be pivotal in technically shaping future Payload Products and defining their capabilities, specifications and developments, all while exploring and advancing cutting-edge technologies and creating value for our customers. Our internal stakeholders, customers and external institutions, agencies, administrative authorities will rely on you as expert, ambassador and point-of-contact for our payload Products. You will also proactively take a driving role as Electronics System Engineer in our Viennese development teams with highly skilled engineers with various backgrounds and from different nationalities, each bringing their unique perspective to the table. Yet, what unites us is both the bright future of our next payloads Products and the commitment to Beyond Gravity’s core values: Curios, Passionate, and Together.
Your Mission:
In this exciting position you are responsible for:
- Technically shaping the future Electronic Payloads, e.g. Position Navigation and Time (PNT) and defining their capabilities and specifications and developments
- Acting as ambassador and point-of-contact for the Payload Products towards internal stakeholders, customers and external institutions, agencies, administrative authorities, etc.
- Defining the system topology, performing the functional decomposition (HW, SW, FPGA) and compiling the system-level requirements
- Supervision of system level analyses (electrical, radiation, reliability, thermal, mechanical) and product documentation
- Active collaboration with and support of other teams and departments to ensure best possible trade-offs in terms of performance, schedule, budget, design-for-manufacturing and design-for-test
- Actively contributing to improvements of the products, processes, methods and tools
Your Story
- Master’s degree in electrical engineering, space engineering, computer science or equivalent education
- Preferably 5+ years’ experience in embedded processing system development and analysis
- You have expert knowledge of designing satellite payloads, PNT algorithms, RF signal reception, generation, processing and high frequency antennas
- You are confident in taking technical decisions with the right balance between cost, time, quality, and performance
- You have a collaborative and creative mindset, share know-how and solve problems together in the team
- You like to represent BG at technical conference and to shape future solutions together with our customers and partners
- Fluent in English, both spoken and written
Why Beyond Gravity
- A friendly working atmosphere with accountable and challenging activities
- Flexible working time
- Company canteen
- A corporate culture in which success is celebrated together
- An exciting job in a thrilling Industry, giving the opportunity for contributing to future space missions
- We are required to state a minimum gross salary for this position in accordance with the collective agreement: this amounts to EUR 5287 ,- per month. The actual compensation is based on your qualifications and experience and will exceed the collective agreement minimum.
🌌Are you ready for lift-off?
Our core values - Passionate, Together, and Curious - transform challenges into opportunities. Embark on a journey to transcend the ordinary with us. Propel your career to new heights by applying before 31/08/2026. We‘re actively reviewing candidates and will promptly select the ideal fit for our team.
For questions regarding the position, please contact: Stefan Pachschwöll | | stefan.pachschwoell@beyondgravity.com
For questions regarding the recruitment process, please contact: Stefan Hunger | | stefan.hunger@beyondgravity.com
Beyond Gravity is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We welcome and encourage applications from all qualified individuals, regardless of race, color, religion, sex, gender, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other legally protected categories.
Applications by e-mail cannot be considered. We do not accept dossiers from recruitment agencies for this position.
From Beyond Gravity's job posting, checked 9 Nov 2026. The employer's own page is the final word on requirements and availability.
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Builds launcher payload fairings, satellite structures, mechanisms and electronics, from Switzerland to Alabama.
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