About us
Coris Innovation is an engineering consulting company specializing in systems engineering and industrial processes.
Founded in 2015, our company was built around a clear principle: to create long-term, close working relationships in consulting, while ensuring the satisfaction of our partners, consultants and teams.
Today, this approach is shared by around one hundred employees across five offices in Switzerland and France (Annecy, Bourges, Grenoble and Lyon), supporting industrial clients with innovation, Research & Development and production challenges.
Would you like to be part of the journey and join a fast-growing company committed to delivering on its promises to employees and clients? Then this could be the right opportunity for you!
Coris Innovation is committed to promoting professional equality, diversity and inclusion.
All our opportunities are open to everyone, and we are committed to ensuring a recruitment process based solely on skills, experience and potential.
Job Description
We are looking for a Senior Spacecraft Systems Engineer to support the development of innovative satellite missions, from early concept definition through design, integration, launch and in-orbit commissioning.
You will act as a key technical contributor at spacecraft level, ensuring consistency across subsystems, managing interfaces and maintaining the technical baseline throughout the programme lifecycle.
Your Responsibilities:
- Contribute to technical planning, including programme schedules, resources and costs.
- Define and maintain the spacecraft system architecture.
- Perform functional analysis, mission analysis and system-level trade-off studies.
- Develop the Concept of Operations, system modes and specification tree.
- Define, decompose and manage system and subsystem requirements.
- Maintain requirements traceability and the engineering database.
- Define and control interfaces between spacecraft subsystems, software and the Ground Segment.
- Consolidate and monitor system-level technical budgets and margins.
- Coordinate multidisciplinary engineering activities across areas such as avionics, power, AOCS/GNC, propulsion, thermal, mechanical and software.
- Lead technical assessments and support architecture and design decisions.
- Manage the system technical baseline and associated change-control activities.
- Contribute to technical risk and opportunity management.
- Define the system verification, validation and development strategy.
- Support Product Assurance activities with relevant technical input.
- Prepare and maintain system engineering documentation.
- Follow the spacecraft implementation and AIV/AIT phases.
- Support launch preparation, early operations and in-orbit commissioning.
- Contribute to the continuous improvement of company-wide systems engineering processes.
- Interface with customers, suppliers and institutional stakeholders.
Required qualifications
Your Profile:
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Aerospace Engineering, Systems Engineering, Physics or a related technical discipline.
- At least eight years of experience in the spacecraft or satellite industry.
- Proven experience in spacecraft-level systems engineering.
- Strong knowledge of requirements decomposition, interface management and technical baseline control.
- Experience conducting trade-off studies and developing spacecraft sizing or performance budgets.
- Good understanding of the complete space programme lifecycle, from early concept and proposal activities through design, development, integration, testing and delivery.
- Experience coordinating multidisciplinary engineering teams.
- Ability to manage several critical technical workstreams simultaneously.
- Strong analytical, organisational and technical communication skills.
- Professional fluency in English.
