HE Space is a successful international space company. For 40 years, we have been supporting our customers with qualified experts in the field of engineering, science and administration. HE Space has joined forces with CS Group to lead the engineering and digital space market in Europe and to provide highly skilled consulting.

We hire space experts all over Europe across the whole spectrum of space-related activities, from engineering to science, software development, operations, marketing, finance and administration. Our employees contribute towards a wide range of groundbreaking space programmes including Galileo and Copernicus, ExoMars, Iris2, ESA BASS, ESA GSPT, LISA Pathfinder, Euclid, the Ariane and Vega launchers as well as the International Space Station.

HE Space has joined forces with CS Group and Sopra Steria to lead the engineering and digital space market in Europe and to provide highly skilled consulting.
We are passionate about people and invest in you to support the development of the European space industry.

• Support the definition of requirements, architectures, deployments and verification methods for system-level simulators used in the different project phases;
• Provide support to Projects on system-level simulators, also facilitating the adoption of novel technologies, methods and tools, such as:

1. System Concept Simulators supporting early mission phases;
2. Functional Verification Simulators (SVF, ETB, EFM, I/F Simulators);
3. Real-time Simulators and Hardware-in-the-Loop Simulators;
4. Distributed and Federated Simulators;
5. End-to-End Simulation Frameworks.

• Contribute to the specification of simulation standards and support simulation model reuse;
• Support Project and R&D activities in development and porting of simulation models in conformance to simulation standards and architectures;
• Assist the relevant Working Groups in RATIO-SIM;
• Support the application of modelling and simulation technologies in alignment to their application in Digital (Twin) Spacecraft contexts;
• Aid the definition of requirements, architectures, deployments and verification methods for conceptual system and subsystem modelling and information system generation used in the different project phases;
• Provide support to Projects on conceptual data modelling of space and ground systems, using novel methods and tools, in particular Object Role Modelling in the context of the Space System Ontology;
• Provide support in the definition and development of the modelling ecosystem for the development of the Space System Ontology;
• Provide support to Projects on the Information System definition, generation and verification, also facilitating the adoption of novel technologies, methods and tools;
• Provide support to the Space System Ontology Design Authority in its objective to apply semantic modelling for enabling (semantic) interoperability;
• Reinforce specific areas of interest for data modelling, such as:

1. Conceptual Data Modelling;
2. Spacecraft Monitoring and Control Data Modelling;
3. Spacecraft Procedures Definition.

• Support the application of the Space System Ontology in support of AI-application. And vice-versa;
• Assist the relevant working groups in OSMoSE (Overall Semantic Modelling for Space System Engineering) and the overarching Digital (Twin) Spacecraft.

• Knowledge and experience with software engineering and semantic modelling.
• Knowledge and experience with spacecraft functional verification (Simulation Modelling, Real-Time Simulator development, testing and evaluation.
• Spacecraft database management systems (Data Modelling, Software Development, Model Driven Software Generation, Monitoring and Procedure Control Languages)
• Data Quality and Data Management.

This job is located in Noordwijk, the Netherlands.

If you think you have what it takes for this job, please send your CV (in English and in Word or PDF) to Andrés Izquierdo.

Inclusive and committed employer, our company works every day to combat all forms of discrimination and promote a respectful working environment. That's why, committed to gender diversity and overall inclusivity, we encourage all applications and profiles.

Last apply date: 30/11/2025!