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Electrical Systems Engineer
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20 July 2026 (20 days ago)
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18 October 2026
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1 Vacancy
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Job Summary
As an Electrical System Engineer of Orbitworks Solutions Engineering Team you will work on multiple satellite missions simultaneously each with a unique multipayload configuration. Your role will be to ensure the successful power and command protocol integration of the payloads to the bus leveraging Lofts products. You will work crossfunctionally across multiple teams: satellite electrical configuration payload interface software mission engineering and AIT.
About this Role:
- You will work both with other teams and Customers to develop and maintain technical power budgets for spacecraft performance.
- You will develop and manage electrical requirements and verification techniques with both Other Groups and Customers.
- You will support test procedures and participate in the integration and test campaign at our spacecraft manufacturers site.
Must Haves:
- Enjoy being the face of the electrical technical requirements and working with a team to deliver quality hardware.
- Knowledge of bus protocols of: SpaceWire CAN and RS4XX specifications
- Power allocation and distribution systems including fault tolerate and derating considerations
- Familiarity of the different SV subsystems (Thermal Structural ADCS RF Link etc)
Nice to Haves:
- Have demonstrated experience in small satellite assembly integration and test campaigns
- Have experience in a fastpaced development environment.
- Have prior experience delivering a spacecraft to orbit and/or spacequalified hardware to a customer
Orbitworks mission is to make space simple for organizations that want to deploy physical and virtual missions to space. Building on Loft Orbitals heritage Orbitworks will be the first commercial firm in the United Arab Emirates to massmanufacture satellites. Orbitworks aims to manufacture tens of satellites annually and operates out of a 50000squarefoot facility in Abu Dhabi.
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About Company
Loft Orbital builds software and hardware products to fly and operate any payload on a standard satellite bus. See how we're making space simple.
