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From a garage in Switzerland, we now operate across UK and Europe, and are working with world-leading institutions and companies to bring our dream of a sustainable space ecosystem to life.\nWe are looking for an FDIR Engineer to join our team who will work on both our current missions and future projects.\nThe Role\nThe FDIR Engineer will, as part of the System team, be responsible for FDIR concept development for ClearSpace missions, providing input to mission development from the earliest stages, and ensuring implementation and verification of that concept in the latter stages.\nKey responsibilities\nDefine, developand maintain the spacecraft FDIR concept, architecture, and implementation strategy in collaboration with Systems, Software, Avionics, Operations, and PA/QA teams.\nDerive, allocate, and manage spacecraft FDIR requirements and ensure their implementation acrosssegment andsubsystemhardware and software.\nPerform FDIR analyses to identify failure scenarios, fault propagation paths, detection mechanisms, and recovery strategies.\nSupport RAMS and safety activities by providing FDIR inputs and ensuring consistency between fault management and mission reliability objectives.\nContribute to spacecraft, avionics, and software architecture definition to ensure effective fault management implementation.\nDefine and execute FDIR verification and validation activities, including test planning, procedure development, execution, and reporting.\nSupport spacecraft functional validation, system integration, and qualification campaigns. 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