Upper Stage Propulsion Engine System Technical Leader
About the job
🚀 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 Stage Propulsion Engine System Technical Leader Within MaiaSpace Technical Team, you’ll be in charge of the overall Engines Propulsion Systems: - Manage the engine specification for MSP launcher and ensure convergence and consistency with all the architects of the launcher and with the Upper stage architect).
A particular attention, on the launcher exploitation phase must be considered aiming to optimize Expendable Launch Vehicle and Reusable Launch Vehicle business performance. - Contribute to the launcher development and verification plan with a strong link with tests (objectives, exploitation and measurement plan) - Contribution to the tests and flight preparation (i.e flight worthiness file), forecast, and analysis - Manage First stage Engine technical data base, configuration management and coordination planning activities with Engines supplier. - Draw and Manage with Engines supplier the technical logic and actions plan regarding technical issues - Ensure consistency with First stage Engine system design - Monitor target engine performance under development worldwide ## Your duties will include Design (Mechanical, Functional & Avionics) - Concept studies, including trade-offs - Technical specification Requirements - Functional and justification files synthesis for MSP - Safety file - Roadmap and logics i.e tests Supplier management - Ensure coordination and convergence Support to the company’s technical strategy - Support to the Propulsion roadmap - Support to industrialization and operation 🎓 Qualification - Master’s degree or equivalent in aerospace engineering - > 10 years of professional experience in the field of liquid propulsion and launcher systems - Sound knowledge in fluid systems, avionics systems and mechanical architecture, design and development - Sound knowledge of cryogenic fluids, control and regulation, mechanical justification - Sound knowledge of launcher system architecture design (function analysis, phase analysis, specification...) - Sound knowledge in products and supplier management - Sound knowledge in test and launch campaign preparation - Experience with development and qualification process 🛸 Skills - Customers oriented - Autonomous, proactive attitude towards resolution of problem - Team player with the ability to collaborate with people from different disciplines and cultures - Curious, pragmatic and capacity to arbitrate and make choice to guarantee the launcher optimization - Negotiation skills - Knowledge or practice of Agile methodology 🎬 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. 📢 We're hiring ! Check out our Career page. ✨
From MaiaSpace's job posting, checked 7 Nov 2026. The employer's own page is the final word on requirements and availability.
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