Senior Flight Dynamics Engineer Santarém

Senior Flight Dynamics Engineer
Santarém
Santarém, Santarém District, Portugal

Are you passionate about space operations and flight dynamics? Randstad Digital is recruiting a Senior Flight Dynamics Engineer to join one of our international clients in the aerospace sector.

This is a remote opportunity for professionals based in Portugal, offering the chance to work on
- edge space missions and projects with a highly skilled, global team.

Responsabilities:

• Technical steering of Flight Dynamics software features
• Development of Flight Dynamics software features
• Contribute to spreading required domain knowledge across the company by organising knowledge sharing sessions and workshops
• Ensure appropriate and effective testing of Flight Dynamics software
• Support the Quality Assurance team in ensuring and maintaining software quality
• Engaging with customers as part of business development and customer support
• Leading the FD team to provide operational support for customers for key mission phases such as LEOP
• Strengthening position of Neuraspace as STM/SSA experts by leading/coordinating contributions to conferences
• Collaboration with the wider team including Product Owner, UI/UX, Architecture Steering Group, Solutions Architects, Frontend and Backend to ensure that flight dynamics features are correctly delivered.

Skills:

• Multiple years of experience in either operational flight dynamics or SSA, including extensive software development
• Knowledge and experience in Object Oriented Programming and SOLID principles
• Knowledge of current SSA/STM standards and processes (e. g. CCSDS standards,
  - track, conjunction analysis, etc)
• Experience of key FD/SSA processes such as orbit determination, manoeuvre calculation, etc
• Solid background in maths, physics, probability and statistics required for flight dynamics, SSA and STM
• Proficiency with Python
• Experience of operating in an agile/SCRUM environment with key tools such as CI/CD pipelines
• Systems thinker able to consider wider effects of decisions in order to build system effectiveness and resiliency

Offer:

• Remote work
• Competitive salary and benefits package directly with the client
• Involvement in international,
  - impact space projects
• A dynamic and
  - driven environment
• Opportunity to grow with a global leader in digital recruitment and engineering services