AOCS Engineer

About Aerospacelab

Our mission is supported by an ambitious vertically integrated approach: design & manufacture of small satellites combined with development of earth observation services.

Since its creation in 2018, the company has already grown substantially. Our team gathers more than 25 engineering expertise, from hardware design to software development & data science.

In 2025, Aerospacelab counts offices in Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium), Toulouse (France), Lausanne (Switzerland) and US West Coast with more than 350 full-time employees, with the ambition to position itself as the European leader in small satellites.

Role overview

Asan AOCS engineer at Aerospacelab, you will participate in designing andimplementing attitude and orbit control solutions for satellites across variousmissions. Utilizing your expertise, you will work to ensure our missionsachieve the various mission performances on pointing, stability and robustnessthroughout their missions, as well as participate in improving our design andsimulation toolchain. Collaborating with multidisciplinary teams, you will haveyour hands on the AOCS design from concept through launch.

Duties

• Participatein the development of Attitude and Orbit Control Systems
• Participatein the development of simulation products
• Providesupport and analyses for mission and systems engineering, and operations
• Providesupport for testing of AOCS subsystem and hardware

Must have

• MScor PhD in a relevant field
• Goodknowledge of AOCS design
• Familiaritywith Matlab/Simulink
• Fluencyin English

Nice to have

• Understandingof version control in Git
• Experiencein building complex simulations and models