{"id":4274999,"url":"https://alion.io/job/eutelsat-systems-engineer-for-the-iris2-integrated-project-team","title":"Systems Engineer for the IRIS2 Integrated Project Team","company":{"id":52957,"name":"Eutelsat","domain":"eutelsat.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/eutelsat","size_band":"201-500","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"SuccessFactors","truth_index":null},"role":"Industrial Engineering","role_family":"Industrial Engineering","seniority":null,"employment_type":null,"work_mode":"hybrid","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Amsterdam, Netherlands"],"countries":["NL"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Cameo Systems Modeler","optional":false},{"name":"IBM DOORS","optional":false},{"name":"MBSE","optional":false},{"name":"Verification & Validation","optional":false}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-11-13T18:44:03Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-11-13","last_verified_at":"2026-11-13T18:44:03Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":0,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":0},"description":"Connect with Eutelsat\nBe part of a new era in communications, transforming connectivity with Eutelsat - the world’s first GEO-LEO integrated global satellite operator.\nAs a leader in satellite communications, we provide global connectivity solutions - connecting businesses, communities, and governments around the world. We can connect you at on land, at sea and in the air. We also deliver broadcast television channels and packages, transmitting vital news reports around the world.\nWith Eutelsa You’ll Get To:\nPioneer the future of Space Technology\nBring connectivity to remote frontiers\nCollaborate with customer-centric experts\nEmbrace cultural diversity in our global team\nIn a dynamic industry where passion drives our teams to make a difference to become the most trusted partner for global satellite connectivity, you will elevate your skills in a stretching, rewarding, and meaningful environment. At Eutelsat, we’re united by inclusion and diversity, striving for gender balance and social responsibility, on Earth and in Space.\nWhy Eutelsat?\nCommitment to Diversity & Inclusion: With colleagues from over 75 countries, we embrace our global DNA and are committed to creating an inclusive workplace. We are proud that one-third of our executive team and 60% of our board are represented by women.\nWays of Working That Drive Us: As \"One Team,\" we work collaboratively towards shared goals, with customer-centricity, respect, and inclusivity as our guiding principles.\nSustainability at Our Core: At Eutelsat, sustainability is more than just a word; it’s woven into our strategy. We’re dedicated to balancing social, environmental, and economic growth - both on Earth and in space.\nWork-Life Balance: We offer flexible schedules and hybrid work options to help you balance your personal and professional life. At Eutelsat, we are committed to supporting your well-being and ensuring you have the flexibility you need to succeed both at work and at home.\nReady to grow with us? Apply today and help us build a more inclusive, sustainable future in the world of satellite technology\nWho You Are\nYou are an experienced Systems Engineer with a strong end-to-end perspective and a proven ability to translate stakeholder needs into coherent, verifiable system solutions. You combine technical depth with architectural thinking and are comfortable working across service, network, space, ground, operations, and integration domains.\nYou have experience contributing to the architecture, development, integration, verification, and evolution of complex telecommunications, satellite, wireless, or large-scale distributed systems. You can balance customer expectations, engineering constraints, operational needs, and programme objectives while maintaining technical consistency and traceability throughout the system lifecycle.\nYou are a collaborative problem solver who can lead technical discussions, challenge assumptions constructively, perform trade-off analyses, and build alignment across multidisciplinary teams, suppliers, customers, and institutional stakeholders.\nDesired Profile\nDegree in Telecommunications, Systems Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Aerospace Engineering, or a related discipline.\nProven experience in Systems Engineering, System Architecture, Requirements Engineering, Functional Architecture, or related technical leadership roles.\nExperience working on large-scale, multi-domain communication or space programmes.\nStrong analytical and problem-solving capabilities.\nExcellent written and verbal communication skills.\nAbility to produce clear, structured, and technically rigorous engineering documentation.\nExperience working with requirements management and systems engineering tools such as DOORS, Jama, Cameo, or equivalent.\nAbility to influence and coordinate multidisciplinary teams across organisational boundaries.\nWhat You'll Do\nAs a System Engineer, you will define, maintain, and evolve the end-to-end technical baseline of advanced satellite and telecommunications systems. You will ensure consistency between stakeholder needs, operational concepts, architecture, requirements, interfaces, implementation, and verification activities throughout the programme lifecycle.\nStakeholder Needs, Requirements & Traceability\nCapture, analyse, and formalise stakeholder, customer, operational, regulatory, and business needs.\nDevelop and maintain Concepts of Operations (CONOPS), operational scenarios, use cases, System Requirements Documents (SRD), and supporting engineering artefacts.\nOwn or contribute to the system requirements baseline and ensure full traceability from stakeholder needs through design, implementation, verification, and validation.\nAllocate requirements across system domains, segments, subsystems, and suppliers.\nAssess requirements changes and manage their impact across the system.\nEnd-to-End System Engineering\nTranslate architecture and service objectives into a specified and verifiable end-to-end system.\nDefine and maintain system 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descriptions, technical justifications, architecture baselines, and design documentation.\nIntegration, Verification & Validation\nDefine verification strategies and support the development of verification plans.\nWork closely with Integration, Verification and Validation (IV&V) teams to establish verifiable requirements and end-to-end test scenarios.\nEnsure evidence is available to demonstrate compliance against stakeholder and system requirements.\nSupport integration activities, technical reviews, qualification campaigns, and programme milestones.\nContribute to interface management and cross-segment integration activities.\nTechnical Leadership & Collaboration\nCollaborate with domain architects, engineering teams, programme delivery teams, suppliers, customers, and institutional stakeholders.\nParticipate in technical reviews, architecture boards, design reviews, and governance forums.\nProvide technical guidance to engineering teams and suppliers.\nCoordinate resolution of cross-domain technical issues and maintain technical consistency across programme boundaries.\nSupport the continuous improvement of systems engineering methods, processes, and best practices.\nWhat You'll Need\nEssential Qualifications & Experience\nBachelor's or Master's degree in Telecommunications, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Aerospace Engineering, or a related discipline.\nSignificant experience in Systems Engineering, System Architecture, Functional Architecture, or Requirements Engineering.\nExperience defining and maintaining requirements, architectures, interfaces, and technical baselines.\nStrong understanding of the full systems engineering lifecycle, from concept and requirements through integration, verification, validation, and operations.\nExperience conducting technical trade studies and engineering assessments.\nExperience managing traceability between needs, requirements, architecture, interfaces, implementation, and verification.\nExperience working in complex multi-disciplinary and multi-supplier environments.\nTechnical Expertise\nExperience in one or more of the following areas:\nSatellite communications systems and non-terrestrial networks (NTN).\n5G / 3GPP architecture and network functions.\nRadio Access Networks (RAN).\nAir interface design, modelling, or optimisation.\nGround segment and network architecture.\nUser terminal architecture.\nIP networking, routing, transport systems, and service orchestration.\nSystem performance analysis and sizing.\nModel-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE).\nIntegration, Verification and Validation methodologies.\nKey Competencies\nStrong systems thinking and end-to-end perspective.\nTechnical leadership and stakeholder management.\nExcellent analytical and decision-making capabilities.\nAbility to resolve complex cross-domain technical issues.\nStrong communication and influencing skills.\nAbility to work effectively in international and multidisciplinary environments.\nAbility to balance 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