HE Space is a successful international space company, specialised in providing managed services and human resources to the international space sector for over 40 years.
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. 

Within the Flight Software Systems Section, support is provided to the Earth Observation projects (EOP) of the current and future ESA earth observation missions, e.g Sentinel1, Sentinel2, Sentinel3, EarthCare, MTG. Support is also provided to Science missions such as BepiColombo, Solar Orbiter, and JUICE.

This support includes monitoring and supporting the implementation, verification and validation of Flight Software.

You will be assigned to the Flight Software Systems Section of the Software Systems Division as an integrated team member of the development team, in charge of the following (initial) tasks:

• General Support to Software Validation Facilities and Avionics Test Bench infrastructure activities.
• Emulators characterisation.
• Interface adaptations between SVF and Test Bench models.
• Adaptation and upgrade ATB EagleEye mission to Time and Space Partitions (TSP) and multicore configurations.
• Integration of TSP based system execution environment.
• Supporting integration of Multicore based system execution environment.
• Support dedicated projects SVF infrastructure development including processor simulator.

A university degree (Master's or PhD) in Electronic Engineering, Space Systems Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics or a related discipline.

In particular experience with:

• Software engineering and object-oriented programming.
• Programming languages: C/C++ and/or others.
• Embedded Real-Time Systems and Real-Time Kernels.
• Unix-based systems.
• Micro-processors such as SPARC LEON, ARM, multicore, etc.
• Communication protocols (Mil-1553, SpaceWire, CAN).
• Software Engineering Standards, such as the ECSS-E-ST-40C.

Knowledge of Space Systems and Space System Engineering will be an asset.

You will function as part of a team. Because of the operational nature of the support, a proactive and flexible attitude will be required.

Experience with operational software development will be an advantage

Fluency in English is mandatory; knowledge of another European language is an advantage.

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) by applying to this job.

An exciting and dynamic international working environment awaits you!

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: 20/06/2026!