Launch and flight test engineer jobs in Germany

Launch and flight test engineer: 33 open roles at 21 companies in Germany. 31 of them are open to candidates of any nationality; the rest ask for citizenship, export-control eligibility or a government security clearance. 4 mention relocation support.

Rebuilt 25 Oct 2026
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33
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21
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94%
estimated median pay
$84k

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Leonardo

leonardo.com
leonardo.com • HQ: Rome, Italy • C4ISR • Aircraft Manufacturing • Defense Manufacturing • 5000+ employees • Est. 1948 • Trust B • Hiring 654, 72 new
HQ: Rome, Italy • C4ISR • Aircraft Manufacturing • Defense Manufacturing • 5000+ employees • Est. 1948 • Trust B • Hiring 654, 72 new
Leonardo is an Italian aerospace, defence and security group headquartered in Rome that builds helicopters, aircraft, aerostructures, defence electronics, space systems and cyber security solutions. Founded in 1948 as Finmeccanica and renamed in 2017, it is listed in Milan with the Italian state as its largest shareholder, employs more than 50,000 people and has major industrial operations in Italy, the UK, Poland and the US. Its openings span cyber security engineers, systems, software and quality engineers, ground station and test engineers, project managers and customer service officers at sites such as Rome, Edinburgh, Luton, Southampton and Turin.
No named decision-maker yet.
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Verified live · 4 hours ago 4 days ago Likely open · 57%

Spacecraft Operations Engineer (Copernicus Team - CO2M)

Hybrid (Darmstadt, Germany) • Full-Time • English: C1
MATLAB
SQL
Python
SpaceTech
CCSDS
ECSS
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Open 118 daysVerified live · 4 hours ago 4 months ago Long shot · 2%

Spacecraft Operations Engineer (Metop)

Hybrid (Darmstadt, Germany) • Master's Degree • Full-Time • English: C1
Python
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SSC Space

sscspace.com
sscspace.com • HQ: Solna, Sweden • Engineering Services • Science & Engineering • Space & Aerospace • Launch Services • 501-1000 employees • Est. 1972 • Trust B • Hiring 61, 8 new
HQ: Solna, Sweden • Engineering Services • Science & Engineering • Space & Aerospace • Launch Services • 501-1000 employees • Est. 1972 • Trust B • Hiring 61, 8 new
SSC Space, formerly the Swedish Space Corporation, is a Swedish state-owned space services company based in Solna, offering satellite ground station services, spacecraft operations and engineering, sounding rockets, stratospheric balloons and launch and rocket test services. Founded in 1972, it operates Esrange Space Center near Kiruna and one of the largest global ground station networks, with teams in Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, the US and Australia. Its openings include RF and ground segment engineers, spacecraft and ground station controllers, Columbus ground controllers, network engineers and program managers.
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Verified live · 2 hours ago 4 days ago Likely open · 63%

Spacecraft Operations Engineer (f/m/d)

Hybrid (Gilching, Germany) • Relocation • Bachelor's Degree • Full-Time • German • English: C1
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Verified live · 2 hours ago 1 month ago Fading · 27%

Spacecraft Operations Engineer - Copernicus Missions (f/m/d)

Hybrid (Darmstadt, Germany) • Relocation • Bachelor's Degree • Full-Time • German • English
MATLAB
SpaceTech
ECSS
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OHB

ohb.de
ohb.de • HQ: Bremen, Germany • Earth Observation • Satellite Manufacturing • 1001-5000 employees • Est. 1981 • Trust B • Hiring 115, 14 new
HQ: Bremen, Germany • Earth Observation • Satellite Manufacturing • 1001-5000 employees • Est. 1981 • Trust B • Hiring 115, 14 new
OHB is a European space and technology group headquartered in Bremen, Germany, that develops and builds satellites and complete space systems, supplies components for launcher programmes and operates satellite systems. Controlled by the Fuchs family since 1981, the listed group has built navigation satellites for the Galileo programme along with weather, Earth observation and reconnaissance spacecraft, and employs over 3,000 people at sites including Munich, Mainz, Augsburg, Gilching and Brno. It hires spacecraft design, avionics, embedded software and radar subsystem engineers, product assurance and AIT team leads, Earth observation project managers and dual study students.
No named decision-maker yet.
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Verified live · 2 hours ago 4 days ago Likely open · 63%

Head of Ground & Launch Operations (m/f/d)

Head+ • In office (Augsburg, Germany) • Architect
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Deutsche Aircraft

deutscheaircraft.com
deutscheaircraft.com • HQ: Weßling, Germany • Aircraft Manufacturing • 11-50 employees • Trust B • Hiring 14, 1 new
HQ: Weßling, Germany • Aircraft Manufacturing • 11-50 employees • Trust B • Hiring 14, 1 new
The journey to a more sustainable future starts here. We are accelerating the aviation industry’s transition towards lower emissions using theD328eco®.
Nico Neumann · Managing Director · decision-maker
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Verified live · 2 hours ago 4 days ago Hiring now · 86%

Airworthiness Office Specialists (all genders)

Senior • 5+ years exp • In office (Weßling, Germany) • Full-Time • Senior
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Open 103 daysVerified live · 2 hours ago 3 months ago Long shot · 10%

Head of Airworthiness, Configuration Management & Technical Publications (all genders)

Head+ • 15+ years exp • In office (Weßling, Germany) • Full-Time • Architect • German (Optional) • English
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Airbus

airbus.com
airbus.com • HQ: Blagnac, France • Defense Manufacturing • Satellite Manufacturing • Aerospace Manufacturing • Aircraft Manufacturing • 5000+ employees • Est. 1970 • Trust B • Hiring 2510, 377 new
HQ: Blagnac, France • Defense Manufacturing • Satellite Manufacturing • Aerospace Manufacturing • Aircraft Manufacturing • 5000+ employees • Est. 1970 • Trust B • Hiring 2510, 377 new
Airbus is a European aerospace group formed in 1970 as a consortium of French, German, British and Spanish manufacturers to build a competitor to the American aircraft industry, and now the largest commercial aircraft maker in the world. Its passenger jets run from the A220 through the best-selling A320 family to the A350 widebody, built in an unusual pan-European industrial system where major sections are made in different countries and flown to final assembly lines. Beyond airliners it is the largest civil helicopter maker, builds telecommunications and observation satellites, and supplies military aircraft including the A400M transport.
Lars Wagner · Directeur Général · decision-maker
Carmen-Maja Rex · Directeur Général · decision-maker
Alberto Gutierrez · Executive Officer · decision-maker
Catherine Jestin · Executive Officer · decision-maker
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Verified live · 1 day ago 7 days ago Likely open · 63%

Internship within AIT (Assembly Integration and Test) for optical Instruments (d/f/m)

Intern • In office (Ottobrunn, Germany) • Internship • GMP / cleanroom • Intern • German • English: C1
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HENSOLDT

hensoldt.net
hensoldt.net • HQ: Taufkirchen, Germany • Defense Manufacturing • Electronic Warfare • C4ISR • 5000+ employees • Est. 2017 • Trust A • Hiring 349, 5 new
HQ: Taufkirchen, Germany • Defense Manufacturing • Electronic Warfare • C4ISR • 5000+ employees • Est. 2017 • Trust A • Hiring 349, 5 new
HENSOLDT is a German sensor and defence electronics company formed in 2017 from Airbus units. It builds radars, optronics and electronic warfare systems. The company is listed on the Frankfurt exchange.
No named decision-maker yet.
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Verified live · 20 min ago 11 days ago Hiring now · 74%

Musterprüfbeauftragter im Office of Airworthiness (w/m/d)

In office (Ulm, Germany) • German: C1 • English: B2
C#
C#
.NET
SpaceTech
DO-178C
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Skills these roles ask for

Python 4ECSS 4Machine Learning 3CCSDS 2Java 2Microsoft Office 2MATLAB 2KiCad 1Anomaly Detection 1CVE 1IBM DOORS 1.NET 1DO-178C 1SQL 1

Where the roles are

Darmstadt 7Augsburg 4Parsdorf 3Karlsruhe 2Weßling 2Munich 2Taufkirchen 2Cologne 1Berlin 1Leipzig 1

Questions

Can a foreigner apply for these roles?

31 of the 33 roles here state no citizenship, export-control or security-clearance demand. A role that does says so in its advert, and the card marks it.

Which aerospace companies hire most?

Isar Aerospace (3), Rocket Factory Augsburg (3), SSC Space (3), Alpine Eagle (2), Leonardo (2).

Which roles count as aerospace jobs?

Every propulsion, GNC, avionics, aerodynamics, structures, spacecraft, satcom, launch, flight test and aircraft maintenance role at any employer, and the engineering, science, technician, data and IT roles of the aviation and space companies - aircraft makers and airlines' engineering, launch, satellites, Earth observation, eVTOL. Their sales, finance and office roles are left out, and so is weapons and missile work.

How fresh is this?

Every role is re-checked on the employer's own careers board at least every 48 hours, and the page is rebuilt every night.

Source: 33 live postings on employers' careers boardsUpdated 25 Oct 2026MethodologyJSONCC BY-SA 4.0