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In this highly senior role, you will take ownership of system requirements integrity, ensuring seamless alignment across all technical domains while fostering cross-functional collaboration and technical excellence.\nThis is a unique opportunity to step into a leadership position at the heart of a fast-growing, innovative company. You’ll play a pivotal role in shaping the future of mission-critical space communications, where reliability, precision, and leadership are non-negotiable from day one. If you thrive in technically complex, high-stakes environments and are ready to mentor, inspire, and drive a team toward groundbreaking achievements, we want to hear from you!\nResponsibilities\nLead end-to-end system engineering for both space and ground segments, ensuring a unified architectural vision.\n\nDefine technical direction and drive high-quality, system-level decision-making across all programs.\n\nBuild, mentor, and lead a high-performing, multi-location system engineering team, while supporting its growth in alignment with company needs.\n\nOwn and maintain requirements integrity-from customer needs through system, subsystem, and verification levels.\n\nManage system budgets (mass, power, data rate, performance, margins) and ensure their consistency throughout the lifecycle.\n\nCoordinate and align system-level efforts across Payload, AOCS, Propulsion, Flight Software, AIT, Operations, and related domains.\n\nEstablish and uphold system engineering processes, workflows, and standards for distributed teams.\n\nSkills and Requirements\nProven leadership in System Engineering teams for multiple spacecraft programs that successfully reached orbit.\n\nFull lifecycle expertise, from early design to in-orbit validation, including long-lifetime missions (LEO/GEO).\n\nHands-on application of ECSS-E-ST-10C and related ECSS standards in real-world projects.\n\nPractical experience with the NASA Systems Engineering Handbook (SP-6105) in applied contexts.\n\nLeadership in system-level V&V and IV&V activities.\n\nExpertise in trade-offs, feasibility studies, and architectural decision-making under constraints.\n\nAbility to translate customer and operational needs into clear, actionable system requirements.\n\nStrong communication skills across engineering teams, management, and external stakeholders.\n\nDeep understanding of satellite subsystems and their interactions.\n\nExperience with satellite-level testing and validation.\n\nProduction-oriented mindset with a focus on scalability and delivery.\n\nWhat does ReOrbit do?\nReOrbit builds the foundation for the next generation of space applications by transforming satellites into truly intelligent, interconnected platforms, defined by software. Our satellite design philosophy revolves around the idea that satellites must network, communicate with each other and thus improve mission efficiency. How can this be achieved? Thanks to a flexible software-first architecture, where all these aspects are dealt with upfront in the mission concept, as integrated functionalities.\nReOrbit’s top-notch team of software engineers and system architects develop in-house software, procure hardware from the best-in-class suppliers, and seamlessly integrate the components to create flexible and secure satellites. Today, we are a rapidly growing company building a very strong multidisciplinary team to support our activities. We are headquartered in Helsinki, Finland with a subsidiaries in Bristol, UK and Bariloche, Argentina.\nWorking at ReOrbit\nAt ReOrbit, we are focused on building a strong team as we believe nothing can be accomplished without innovative, humble and curious minds working together on a common goal. We’re all about fostering an inclusive, dynamic environment where equality and diversity are our strength. \nWe offer\nChallenging but rewarding environment - you will thrive if you are always reflecting on how to make things better. Your ideas will be heard.\n\nAmbitious and supportive network of people, who are motivated to change the space industry, bringing expertise from both classic and new space .\n\nBenefits such as lunch vouchers, events, parties, occupational health care and additional health insurance - but most importantly a possibility to be a part of a unique and diverse team, connected by similar mindset and sense of humor. \n\nWe like to spend time together! You can choose activities whichever is to your liking - runOrbit, climbOrbit; become ping pong or board games champion.\n\nWe support relocation and integration into Finnish society.\n\nJoin us in our journey of building software enabled satellites for secure communications\nand, thus, creating the most compelling in space data flow company of the new space era.\nThe Company may require a security clearance for certain positions. Any such security clearance will be conducted in accordance with applicable law and the Company's relevant policies\nFor agencies: We do not accept unsolicited CVs for our open vacancies. Any CV sent to our team unsolicited will reserve us the right to pursue a candidate without obligation to the sender. 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