AIT/AIV Engineer

Are you looking for a new opportunity to take your career to a higher orbit 🛸? To join an international group with a successful track record in Space Engineering? A job adapted to your career ambitions and in which you could have an impact for the years to come?

We are looking for an AIT/AIV Engineer to work at ESTEC’s premises in Noordwijk, Netherlands.

📍About the client and location

The European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC) is the European Space Agency’s (ESA) base in Noordwijk, the Netherlands. As ESA’s largest test centre, it is responsible for the majority of space technology and spacecraft development through varying phases of production.

💼 Tasks and activities

The scope of work will include:

• Supporting ESA projects in all phases of AIT/AIV engineering, assisting the Satellite Engineering and AIV Manager (or equivalent) in planning, execution, and oversight of integration, verification, and test activities.
• Monitoring industrial activities at contractor premises, contributing to environmental testing and launch campaigns as required.
• Reviewing project documentation and providing technical feedback on AIT/AIV deliverables, risks, and progress.
• Contributing to internal and external meetings, preparing inputs, reports, and presentations as requested by project management.
• Collaborating with multidisciplinary teams to ensure smooth coordination of AIT/AIV tasks across engineering domains.
• Participating in Section meetings and information exchanges to align with ongoing projects and strategic objectives.
• Supporting feasibility assessments for future missions at the Concurrent Design Facility (CDF), contributing AIT, AIV, and programmatic expertise.

🎯Skills and experience

The following skills and experience are mandatory:

• A Master’s degree, or equivalent, in a relevant technical or scientific discipline (e.g. Space System Engineering).
• At least 5 years of relevant work experience.
• Experience with procurement and technical monitoring of industrial activities.
• Hands-on expertise in Space Engineering Standards and their preparation and implementation.
• Knowledge of Space Missions and Spacecraft Systems Design.
• Understanding of space systems architectures.
• Familiarity with Systems Engineering in the early project phases (trade-offs, budgets, identification of critical technology developments, etc).
• Desire to work both autonomously and as part of a team, in an international multicultural environment.
• Solution oriented mindset, with a customer focused communication skill.
• Fluent in English, both written and spoken.

⭐ Why should you apply?

• You will have the opportunity to work within leading space organisations across Europe.
• We encourage everyone to think outside the box and to push the boundaries of traditional knowledge. This role is an opportunity to join a forward-thinking company and allows for a deeper understanding of the industry.
• To be part of a company that values integrity, inspiration, care and collaboration.
• Benefits include: competitive remuneration packages; unique career opportunities, including working in other countries; access to training and development programmes; flexible relocation support.

We welcome applications from people with disabilities, members of ethnic minorities, all genders, LGBTQ+ individuals and ex-service personnel.

🚀 About Starion 🚀

Starion is one of two new legal entities rebranded from the RHEA Group, focused on space consultancy and space engineering services and solutions. Starion provides engineering expertise and solutions for space, defence and other critical infrastructures across Europe, pushing the boundaries of innovation. Our teams work on world-leading space projects that deliver the pioneering missions that provide us with the information and technologies we use today.

Starion offers over three decades of expertise in professional engineering services, developing and operating systems and solutions tailored to our clients’ needs. By combining space and system engineering with established and emerging technologies, such as AI and quantum, we produce innovative solutions that make a fundamental difference for our clients and for society.

Starion employees are located across Europe, close to our clients’ offices, enabling us to be responsive and agile. Our engineers and researchers are among the most trusted and respected in the industry, helping build space-based solutions that address major challenges on Earth such as civil security, climate change and deforestation.