System Engineer
Golbriak Space OÜ develops secure, high-data-rate free-space optical communication terminals for space, airborne and ground applications. As we transition from engineering builds towards serial production, we are looking for a Systems Engineer to join our multidisciplinary engineering team in Tallinn.
- Type: Full-time
- Location: Tallinn, Estonia
- Start: As soon as possible
- Working arrangement: Onsite
Key Responsibilities:
- Capture, analyse, define and maintain system and subsystem requirements
- Translate product and mission objectives into clear technical requirements, actions and deliverables
- Allocate requirements across subsystems and maintain traceability throughout the product-development lifecycle
- Coordinate interfaces between mechanical, optical, electronic, software, thermal, manufacturing and testing activities
- Identify technical dependencies, assumptions, constraints, conflicts and risks
- Develop system-level verification and validation plans and define appropriate acceptance criteria
- Support system integration, testing, troubleshooting, qualification and product-acceptance activities
- Review test results and verification evidence against defined requirements
- Coordinate the resolution of technical issues involving multiple engineering disciplines
- Track technical activities, dependencies, risks, decisions and milestones
- Prepare and support technical and design reviews
- Maintain requirements specifications, interface documentation, verification plans, technical reports and engineering decision records
- Support configuration management and the controlled implementation of engineering changes
- Collaborate with founders, engineering leads, technical teams, suppliers, partners and customers
- Contribute to the improvement of systems-engineering processes, documentation and development workflows
Requirements:
- A bachelor’s degree in systems engineering, mechanical engineering, electrical or electronic engineering, aerospace engineering, physics or another relevant technical discipline
- Strong engineering fundamentals and the ability to understand complex multidisciplinary systems
- Experience in systems engineering, product development or multidisciplinary engineering projects
- Experience defining, analysing and managing technical requirements
- Understanding of requirements flow-down and traceability
- Experience with system integration, verification or validation
- Ability to understand and coordinate interfaces between different engineering disciplines
- Strong analytical and structured problem-solving skills
- Ability to identify technical risks and support their resolution
- Strong technical-documentation skills
- Ability to coordinate multiple technical activities, dependencies and priorities
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills
- Professional working proficiency in English
- Willingness to work primarily onsite in Tallinn
- Readiness to work in a startup environment where priorities and technical requirements may evolve
We welcome applications from both junior and mid-level professionals. Relevant university, research or personal projects may be considered as experience when they involve requirements management, multidisciplinary engineering coordination, system integration or verification.
Professional profile
- Technically curious and motivated to understand the complete system
- Structured, organised and reliable
- Proactive and willing to take ownership
- Comfortable moving between detailed technical discussions and system-level coordination
- Able to identify gaps, dependencies and conflicts between engineering disciplines
- Confident coordinating technical actions and following them through to completion
- Collaborative, respectful and open to feedback
- Able to communicate complex technical information clearly
- Comfortable working directly with founders and a small multidisciplinary engineering team
- Motivated to improve engineering processes, documentation and ways of working
We offer
- We offer a competitive salary
- Work/life balance with the possibility of flexible hours
- Bonuses based on performance
- The opportunity to work in a talented and dynamic startup environment.
Other Important Information
Please send the following to careers@golbriak.space, indicating Systems Engineer in the subject line:
- Your CV
- A link to your portfolio or examples of relevant systems-engineering or multidisciplinary engineering projects, if available
- Contact details for at least one professional or academic referee
- A short answer to: “Tell us about a multidisciplinary engineering system or project you have helped define, coordinate, integrate or verify. What was your personal contribution, which technical challenges or dependencies did you manage, and what did you learn?”
Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis and will remain open until we find the right candidate.
Golbriak Space is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, or disability status.
At Golbriak Space, we use our passion for purposeful innovation to help keep people safe and solve some of the most complex engineering challenges. We place an emphasis on empowering our employees by fostering an inclusive environment built upon integrity and corporate responsibility.
If this sounds like a culture you connect with, you’re invited to apply for this role.