Senior AOCS Software & GNC Engineer, ICEYE, FI

Role Highlights

🔹Title: Senior AOCS Software & GNC Engineer

🔹Location: Espoo (On-site)

🔹Type of Contract: Permanent

Who are we?

ICEYE is the global leader in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellite technology, revolutionizing Earth observation with real-time, all-weather, day-and-night imaging. As the owner and operator of the world’s largest SAR satellite constellation, we provide critical insights that empower industries like maritime, disaster management, insurance, and finance to make informed decisions.

Headquartered in Finland, with a presence in five international locations, our diverse team of 600+ experts from nearly 60 countries shares a bold mission: to enhance life on Earth by delivering reliable, data-driven solutions. At ICEYE, we foster a culture of curiosity, innovation, and collaboration, pushing the boundaries of what’s possible in space technology to solve the world’s toughest challenges.

Why Join ICEYE?

At ICEYE, we’re not just launching satellites, we’re redefining what’s possible with SAR technology. Join a team of passionate innovators solving real-world challenges and making a tangible impact. We foster a dynamic and inclusive environment where your ideas are valued, your growth is supported, and your contributions truly matter. With continuous learning opportunities, cutting-edge projects, and collaboration with industry-leading experts, you'll have the chance to grow, innovate, and shape the future of Earth Observation.

Why you will Love this role?

ICEYE designs, builds & operates the world’s largest commercial SAR constellation, and we continue adding tens of satellites per year. Keeping dozens and hundreds of spacecraft stable, agile and autonomous is an extraordinary control-systems challenge. In this role, you will apply your expertise in GNC to develop and implement advanced attitude dynamics and sensor fusion algorithms, ensuring our satellites precisely point to their targets every orbit. You will leverage modern software engineering practices to achieve these goals within the satellites we build, operate, and sell.

What will you do in this role?

• Design, verify and maintain guidance, navigation and control software that makes sure our satellites point where commanded.
• Develop and ship production code (primarily Simulink, C++ and Python) that runs on-board all satellites & in HW test environments on the-ground
• Span the full lifecycle - from concept & trade studies through simulation, on-orbit commissioning, anomaly resolution and continual improvement.
• Collaborate across engineering  functions (mission ops, platform, payload, ground systems) to ensure AOCS performance translates into more and sharper images and happier customers.
• Influence next-gen spacecraft design: your models and insight drive hardware specifications for mechanical structure, sensors, actuators and compute.