Launch System Engineer
About the role
🚀 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.🚀
Launch System Engineer
Within MaiaSpace development teams, you will contribute to system engineering activities with a focus on launch system coherency and FM1 flight readiness.
As a Launch System Engineer, you will support the on-time delivery of the Flight Worthiness File for FM1, through requirement structuration, system validation management, and the development and maturation of system engineering tools and processes.
System Engineering
- Contribute to system engineering activities at launcher level.
- Support Model-Based Engineering (MBE) approaches.
- Support the on-time delivery of the Flight Worthiness File for FM1.
Requirements management & architecture
- Structure and capture system requirements.
- Support the maturation of FBS (Functional Breakdown Structure) and PBS (Product Breakdown Structure).
- Ensure consistency between system requirements and risk analysis.
- Manage the link between system requirements and requirements databases.
Validation & flight readiness : contribute to validation management at system level:
- follow-up of Key Characteristics (KC),
- link between requirements and tests,
- contribution to Operational Readiness (OR) activities.
Tools & processes
- Contribute to the development of system engineering tools and processes.
- Support the maturation of existing tools.
- Support the development of sequential tools related to validation and flight readiness.
🛸Specific Skills & Know-how
- System engineering for complex systems
- Requirements structuration and traceability
- Knowledge of validation processes
- Familiarity with MBE approaches
- Rigor and precision
- Ability to work on transversal topics
- Strong structuring and synthesis skills
- Pragmatism and autonomy
- Team spirit
🎓Qualification
- Generalist engineer or aerospace engineer.
- Experience in system engineering, validation, or aerospace/launcher programs.
- Level : 5/10 years’ experience
🎬 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 is in French and English.
Copied from the listing MaiaSpace published, verified 31 Oct 2026.
About MaiaSpace
ArianeGroup's start-up for Maia, a partly reusable small launcher on methane engines.
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