Junior Electro-Mechanical Engineer

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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 200 full-time employees, with the ambition to position itself as the European leader in small satellites.

Your mission

Aerospacelab is looking for a junior engineer in electromechanics or electronics who will contribute to the electronics, mechanical, thermal, electro-mechanical, and instrumentation aspects of our future satellite platforms.

The engineer will be part of a multidisciplinary team composed of other electromechanical, mechanical, RF, and software engineers. She/He will own the design, implementation and verification of prototypes for our next-gen satellite platform. She/He will be part of Aerospacelab’s Applied Research multidisciplinary team, whose charter is to design and prototype new satellite payloads and products and operates as a startup within a scale-up

Duties

  • Design, prototype, capture schematics, bring prototypes to life, debug, and verify functionality of electronics systems for satellites and their payload
  • Design and execute experiments to de-risk new technology
  • Evaluate and characterize prototypes and FPGA/electronics/RF electronics
  • Establish technology limits to understand the state-of-the-art from first principles
  • Explore new concepts and build a shared expertise on satellites and their payloads

Must have

  • Proven experience designing PCBs, at school or outside.
  • Proven experience designing and working software, at school or outside.
  • Breadth of knowledge and experience in electronics and physics.
  • Good problem-solving and troubleshooting abilities
  • Capacity to contribute to the full stack: write software, build instrumentation.
  • Capacity to operate autonomously in fast-paced environment
  • Capacity to communicate clearly and openly with a broad technical audience
  • Working level English

Nice to have

  • A role that impacts the growth of the company, and contributes to the vision of our team’s products
  • The opportunity to be an early member of the Applied Research team
  • A world-class space start-up environment where you will learn at a fast pace.
  • A pragmatic flat hierarchy
  • The flexibility and autonomy of your work environment, you own your work from day 1.

  • Department

    Space Projects & Platforms

  • Office

    Mont-Saint-Guibert

  • Contract type

    Full Time

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What we offer

Build your own career path

Direct impact on the growth of the company

Flat hierarchy

Fast-paced environment

Flexible ways of working

Salary package consistent with your experience