Key Responsibilities
- Conduct mission analysis for prospective and contracted launches, covering orbital mechanics, trajectory design, and payload accommodation
- Develop mission-design content, technical diagrams, and renders to support proposals and customer technical reviews
- Track suborbital and orbital launch opportunities relevant to HyImpulse's vehicle roadmap, flagging technical fit and constraints early
- Support the Sales Engineer and Bid Manager with technical inputs during proposal development, ensuring mission-design assumptions are accurate and defensible
- Interface with Headquarter engineering teams in Neuenstadt
- Maintain and refine mission-analysis tools and templates to speed up proposal turnaround
- Represent HyImpulse's technical mission-design capability in customer and partner technical meetings
- Site leadership duties, such as leading branch setup
Basic Qualification
- Degree in aerospace engineering or a closely related field, with a focus on orbital mechanics, astrodynamics, or mission design
- Demonstrated experience conducting mission or trajectory analysis, ideally in a launch-vehicle, satellite, or space-systems context
- Fluent German and English, sufficient for technical documentation and customer-facing discussion
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, comfortable working with incomplete or evolving customer requirements
- Ability to communicate complex technical mission-design concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences
- Comfortable working independently in a remote/branch-office setting with regular coordination back to Headquarter
Desired Experience
- Hands-on experience with mission-analysis and orbit-propagation software
- Prior experience supporting proposals or bids for suborbital or orbital launch opportunities
- Familiarity with German or European institutional space programs (DLR, ESA, BMVg-related space activities)
- Experience with payload accommodation, separation systems, or launch-vehicle-to-payload interfaces
- Publication or research background in orbital mechanics, astrodynamics, or related fields
- Willingness to take on broader site-leadership responsibilities as the NRW branch grows
Benefits
- €50 monthly Spendit Card – because it’s the little extras that make a difference
- Christmas bonus on top
- Job bike leasing for a sporty and sustainable commute
- €60 gift for special occasions (birthday, wedding, birth of a child)
- Mobility allowance – because a good workday starts on the way there
- Regular team events – from Christmas parties to adventure offsites
- 30 days of vacation to fully recharge
- Flexible working hours (flextime) to match your personal rhythm
- 1 day of remote work per week
- Free coffee, tea & water – fuel for big ideas
- Open, respectful feedback culture at eye level
- Personal development opportunities through trainings, coaching & language courses
- Buddy program with structured onboarding, including a welcome package
- A diverse and inspiring startup environment, where talented people from over 16 nations collaborate to build something extraordinary
- Hands-on involvement across end-to-end development processes in a fast-growing New Space startup