Experteer Overview In this role you will act as the technical authority for an advanced LEO QKD mission, ensuring end-to-end coherence across space, ground, and user segments under ECSS. You will steer requirements, system design, and validation activities to shape a secure, innovative communications backbone. You’ll collaborate across an international consortium to reduce integration risks and guide the project from early design toward operational readiness. This is a high-impact opportunity to influence next-generation space-based quantum communications.Compensaciones / Incentivos
- Lead system engineering for the complete LEO QKD system and maintain end-to-end architecture
- Ensure consistency across space, ground, and user segments (platform, payload, GCS, OGS, KMS)
- Define and manage the product tree and system architecture
- Lead requirements engineering for mission and subsystem requirements (Ground Control Segment)
- Coordinate cybersecurity requirements and mission simulator requirements
- Design Ground Control Segment subsystems and interfaces for the Quantum Uplink Node
- Contribute to Mission Simulator design
- Define and supervise IVV plans and test documentation
- Oversee CONOPS evolution and key management processes
- Coordinate mission planning across space and ground segments




- Act as cross-functional technical authority within an international consortium
- Manage system interfaces and conduct technical trade-offs at a global levelResponsabilidades
- Minimum 10 years in Systems Engineering for space missions or complex systems
- Proven experience leading requirements and IVV in multi-stakeholder environments
- Background in mission control systems design and operations planning
- Experience in optical communications, satcom, or secure systems
- Previous participation in international consortia (industry, agencies, research institutions)
- Knowledge of ECSS standards and methodologies (New Space context preferred)
- Experience with Mission Control Systems (MCS)
- Understanding of QKD systems and quantum communication principles
- Familiarity with secure communication standards and European programs (EuroQCI, IRIS2)
- Strong background in validation and verification of complex systems
- Experience with requirements traceability tools and methodologies
- Ability to define test scenarios and acceptance criteria
- Understanding of system-level cybersecurity in space and communications
- Experience applying security-by-design principles
- Knowledge of QKD-related security conceptsRequisitos principales
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📌 Technical Lead - Satellite Qkd System (Madrid)
🏢 Leonardo
📍 Madrid