Senior Mission Concept Engineer

The team works across business development, marketing, and customer success to connect with partners worldwide, understand their needs, and turn opportunities into space missions. Their work expands our reach and ensures we deliver meaningful impact for customers and end users. The Growth team acts as the powerhouse of the company, ensuring the immediate needs of the customers are swiftly met and the future ones are translated into a product roadmap and deliverable projects. Each member of

the team combines a mix of programmatic, system engineering, and commercial skills with specific strengths. What will you be doing? As a Senior Mission Concept Engineer, you’ll take the lead in defining and developing advanced space mission concepts — from initial idea through to detailed proposal — for customers around the world. You’ll guide the design of complex missions across Earth observation, telecommunications, and technology demonstration, bringing together every element of the space, ground, and launch segments into a coherent vision. Drawing on your expertise in areas such as embedded systems, onboard software, or satellite operations, you’ll help shape the technical strategy that underpins each mission concept. Working closely with colleagues across engineering, project management, and commercial teams, you’ll coordinate the development of compelling and technically robust proposals. You’ll engage directly with customers and partners to translate their ambitions into feasible mission architectures and delivery plans, balancing creativity with practicality. Alongside this, you’ll play a key role in driving innovation within

the team — developing new tools, models, and approaches to evaluate mission performance, risk, cost, and schedule. As a senior member of the group, you’ll also share your knowledge and experience with others, mentoring junior engineers and contributing to the continual evolution of Open Cosmos’ mission design frameworks and long-term roadmap. What You’ll bring Deep understanding of space mission design – hands-on experience defining and analysing complex missions (e.g. constellation sizing, orbital analysis, payload integration, communications, AOCS, or system trades). Specialisation in a mission domain, such as embedded software, satellite operations, mission control systems, or flight dynamics. Have led technical workstreams or proposals in a commercial or institutional (ESA, UKSA, EC, etc.) context. Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, from performing delta-V or power budgets to evaluating mission-level trade-offs. Confidence dealing with ambiguity and complexity, using structured thinking to create clarity and drive progress. Excellent communication and storytelling skills, able to engage both technical and non-technical audiences. A collaborative mindset, eager to exchange knowledge and help build scalable processes as Open Cosmos continues to grow. This role will be based in Barcelona, Spain. To apply, you must have the legal right to work in this location. When applying, please submit your CV in English. Why Open Cosmos? Work at the cutting edge of space technology with customers around the globe. A mission-driven company making space accessible to help solve real-world challenges. A diverse, ambitious, and supportive team. Division CRO Department GROWTH Role Mission Concept Engineer Locations Barcelona, Spain Remote status Hybrid Employment type Full-time About Open Cosmos Open Cosmos is dedicated to solving customer problems with insights from space. Whether this is monitoring agricultural yields, assessing the damage of oil spills or providing navigation solutions, we believe that data from satellites is the most effective and sustainable way of achieving this. Apply for this job CRO · GROWTH · Barcelona, Spain · Hybrid Senior Mission Concept Engineer Loading application form Career site Data & privacy Manage cookies Employee login Candidate Connect login Already working at Open Cosmos? Let’s recruit together and find your next colleague. Log in Applicant tracking system by Teamtailor

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