Head of Engineering | 5-10 years experience

Head of Engineering | 5-10 years experience

• Toulouse, France
• Full-time
• As soon as possible

You must have citizenship from a country of the European Union or NATO, excluding the USA, to apply to this position.

Your Mission

We are opening a Head of Engineering position to structure and lead the entire technical team — hardware, embedded software, and production. You will be the internal technical authority, the bridge between R&D and industrialization, and the driving force behind team dynamics.

In this position, you will be in contact with all SpaceLocker's technical teams to:

• Lead and manage a multidisciplinary engineering team (hardware, electronics, embedded software, mechanics), while maintaining high standards and a strong collective dynamic
• Act as the team’s technical reference , arbitrating key choices related to architecture, materials, components and processes
• Drive the scale-up of SpaceLocker’s production and industrialization capabilities
• Ensure and maintain the team’s rigor across specification, design and AIV activities
• Own the engineering product roadmap in close collaboration with the CTO
• Structure product line management with an end-to-end system vision
• Lead HR reviews, performance assessments and technical recruiting within the engineering team
• Help unblock critical technical issues to maintain the team’s execution speed and delivery momentum

The plus sides:

• You will work on multiple missions and projects simultaneously , each at a different level of maturity – from R&D to in-orbit operations , including AIT and systems engineering – and often with extremely short timelines from paper to orbit
• You will join a fast-moving company and play a key role in shaping its growth and its contribution to innovative aerospace solutions
• You will have the opportunity to work at the heart of the space ecosystem , interacting with payload and platform manufacturers, operators and institutions , and contributing to some of the most advanced technologies in the industry

For this opportunity, compensation package is aroud 60k€ before tax, with an additional 10% performance bonus. 5 week paid vacation, hybrid remote work.

Your Profile

This list is not exhaustive nor exclusive. No self-censorship here, if you think your profile fits, even if not ticking all the boxes, feel free to apply and explain to us why in your first email!

• 5+ years of experience in space or avionics engineering, with a strong industrialization / production dimension (downstream phases, AIT, production chain)
• Proven experience managing a technical team in the space or aerospace sector
• Solid command of both hardware (electronics, mechanics, cabling, prototyping, qualification) and embedded software
• Ideally : product line management experience at a prime or a New Space player
• Fluent English, basic French is a bonus
• Natural leadership, able to bring energy and momentum to a team
• Autonomous and accountable
• Rigorous, able to bring structure without adding bureaucracy
• Strong communicator, comfortable in an international environment