Mission Planning System Engineer

Description

The company is a joint venture, 67% owned by a global aerospace, defence and security group and 33% by a partner, and is a leading satellite solutions and services provider.

It employs over 3.500 people in offices across Europe and worldwide and runs an international network of Space Centres and Teleports in geoinformation services, satellite systems and operations, and satellite communications.

The team at the Rome headquarters is hiring a Mission Planning System Engineer with 5, 7 years of experience designing Mission Planning Systems for satellite Ground Segments. The work is multidisciplinary, with close contact with internal and external stakeholders, and projects follow Agile/SCRUM.

Applications are screened against the required skills. Shortlisted candidates have an initial HR interview about motivation and personal competencies, followed by a deeper technical interview with the business team. Everyone receives feedback at the end, whatever the outcome.

Responsibilities

• Design Mission Planning solutions for Earth Observation and Optical Communication satellite missions, generating mission plans that meet Power, Thermal, Guidance, Platform and Payload constraints.
• Analyse mission requirements and constraints to decide which satellite models to use.
• Design and coordinate software for the Mission Planning system, including scenarios with large constellations.
• Analyse and integrate external satellite models, such as outside guidance libraries, into the Mission Planning system.
• Write and update project documents, such as requirements documents, the operations concept, the operations engineering plan, user and administration manuals, and test procedures.
• Support project reviews when needed.

Requirements

• A Master's degree in aerospace, automation or information engineering, with flight dynamics skills.
• A proven track record designing and implementing Mission Planning systems.
• A solid grasp of software design principles.
• Experience designing microservices applications.
• Programming skills in Java and Python.
• Knowledge of security coding standards such as OWASP and CWE/SANS.
• Working knowledge of container orchestration frameworks such as Kubernetes or OpenShift.
• Strong written and spoken English.
• Experience with AI agent frameworks such as LangChain, Semantic Kernel or CrewAI, and with building generative components into microservices, including guardrails, output validation and error handling in asynchronous workflows.
• Further skills: knowledge of configuration management tools such as Git and GitLab.
• Further skills: knowledge of software security mechanisms such as encryption and signatures.
• Further skills: experience building applications across multiple technology stacks.

Conditions

Hybrid working, based at the Rome headquarters at IT - Roma - Via Tiburtina, 965.

Employee category with a permanent contract, under the CCNL for the Private Metalworking Industry and Plant Installation Sector.

Base pay range of 000€ to 51.000€. The job grade and pay package are set on objective criteria matching seniority and the role, in line with fairness, transparency and equal opportunity law.

Benefits

• A 13th-month salary payment.
• A performance bonus linked to business results.
• Welfare vouchers worth €250 per year.
• Meal vouchers worth €9, usable at the company cafeteria or for external expenses.
• Ongoing learning opportunities to build both technical and interpersonal skills.