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We are growing fast. Our team of experts is expanding to tackle the hardest problems in space, and we need your expertise.
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About Unbound
At Unbound, we design and build the key technologies that enable the emerging In-Orbit Servicing, Assembly and Manufacturing (ISAM) ecosystem – cameras, sensors, and processing units that let spacecraft inspect, repair, and extend the life of satellites already in space. We are a small and highly-experienced team solving some of the hardest problems in the space industry.
Our aim is to enable great people to move fast: quick to hardware, quick to testing, quick to orbit!
The Opportunity
We are seeking an experienced Programme Manager with a strong technical background to lead complex space payload development programmes from bid through to delivery and in-orbit operations. You will be the single point of accountability for your programmes – owning schedule, budget, technical performance, and the customer relationship. You’ll lead a multidisciplinary team of engineers, direct subcontractor activities, and make the day-to-day decisions that determine whether hardware gets to orbit on time.
What you’ll get to do:
- Work hands-on with hardware that goes to orbit,
- Make decisions that shape our products from day one,
- Work alongside a highly experienced, cross-disciplinary team,
- Build hardware, test it and learn in fast iterations,
- Enjoy a modern central London office with flexible hybrid working options.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead and oversee our most complex space development programs, ensuring delivery of cutting-edge hardware to orbit within budgets and project timelines,
- Forge and cultivate strong, lasting relationships with our customers and partners, building trust through consistent communication and effectively demonstrating Unbound’s unique value proposition and technical capabilities,
- Lead and coordinate a multidisciplinary internal team, aligning engineers toward shared objectives while fostering a culture of accountability,
- Select, evaluate, and monitor subcontractor and supplier activities to ensure quality standards are maintained throughout the supply chain and deliverables meet our needs,
- Actively support bid preparation efforts and contribute to securing new business opportunities,
- Recruit, develop, and mentor team members as Unbound scales.
Desired Qualifications
- Demonstrated leadership experience across most phases of space programs, from concept through operations, with proven ability to navigate complex technical and programmatic challenges,
- Strong technical background within the space industry, with good knowledge of spacecraft systems, ground segments and operations activities,
- Highly organised, independent, and proactive working style with the ability to manage competing priorities and drive initiatives forward without constant supervision,
- Excellent communication skills across all levels, capable of translating complex technical concepts for diverse audiences including senior managers, customers, and technical teams.
Don’t meet every requirement? Apply anyway. We’d rather talk to someone with the right curiosity and drive than pass on a great candidate. If this role excites you, we want to hear from you.
What Unbound Offers
- 25 days of annual holiday plus a dedicated office shutdown period between Christmas and New Year,
- Benefits such as medical, dental, and life insurance,
- Hybrid working model with a balanced expectation of 3 days in the office per week,
- Annual training budget that you personally control, allowing you to invest in professional development, certifications, or learning opportunities aligned with your career goals.
About Unbound
At Unbound, we design and build the key technologies that enable the emerging In-Orbit Servicing, Assembly and Manufacturing (ISAM) ecosystem – cameras, sensors, and processing units that let spacecraft inspect, repair, and extend the life of satellites already in space. We are a small and highly-experienced team solving some of the hardest problems in the space industry.
Our aim is to enable great people to move fast: quick to hardware, quick to testing, quick to orbit!
The Opportunity
We are seeking an experienced Systems Engineer who can be the technical backbone of our payload development programmes. Working alongside the Programme Manager, you will lead the development of our payloads from concept through to flight qualification and operations.
What you’ll get to do:
- Work hands-on with hardware that goes to orbit,
- Make decisions that shape our products from day one,
- Work alongside a highly experienced, cross-disciplinary team,
- Build hardware, test it and learn in fast iterations,
- Enjoy a modern central London office with flexible hybrid working options.
Key Responsibilities
- Be the technical lead across payload development programmes, ensuring technical coherence from mission requirements through to delivered product,
- Lead requirements engineering: capture, decompose, and flow down mission and system-level requirements to subsystem teams, and maintain traceability throughout the lifecycle,
- Conduct system-level analyses and trade studies to support architecture decisions – including functional analysis, performance budgets (mass, power, data, thermal, pointing), link budgets, and mission analysis,
- Coordinate and manage internal interfaces between subsystems and external interfaces with the host spacecraft,
- Lead technical reviews (PDR, CDR, TRR/TRB, QR) both externally with the customer but also internally as required,
- Support the definition and execution of verification and validation campaigns, working with discipline engineers to plan tests, review results, and close out requirements,
- Identify and manage technical risks at the system level and working with the Programme Manager to mitigate them.
Desired Qualifications
- Demonstrated experience leading complex development programmes in the space industry, with a track record of delivering hardware through multiple lifecycle phases,
- Strong understanding of system engineering principles,
- Experience defining verification and validation strategies, including DDVP plans,
- Knowledge of space programme lifecycle standards and review processes (e.g. ECSS, NASA, or equivalent),
- A technical background in one or more engineering disciplines (mechanical, electronics, software, optical, or similar) – you need enough depth to engage meaningfully with each subsystem team,
- Highly organised, independent, and proactive working style with the ability to manage competing priorities and drive initiatives forward without constant supervision,
- Excellent communication skills across all levels, capable of translating complex technical and programmatic information for diverse audiences.
Don’t meet every requirement? Apply anyway. We’d rather talk to someone with the right curiosity and drive than pass on a great candidate. If this role excites you, we want to hear from you.
What Unbound Offers
- 25 days of annual holiday plus a dedicated office shutdown period between Christmas and New Year,
- Benefits such as medical, dental, and life insurance,
- Hybrid working model with a balanced expectation of 3 days in the office per week,
- Annual training budget that you personally control, allowing you to invest in professional development, certifications, or learning opportunities aligned with your career goals.
About Unbound
At Unbound, we design and build the key technologies that enable the emerging In-Orbit Servicing, Assembly and Manufacturing (ISAM) ecosystem – cameras, sensors, and processing units that let spacecraft inspect, repair, and extend the life of satellites already in space. We are a small and highly-experienced team solving some of the hardest problems in the space industry.
Our aim is to enable great people to move fast: quick to hardware, quick to testing, quick to orbit!
The Opportunity
We are seeking an experienced Optical Engineer who can lead the development of complex space-based cameras and sensors through every phase, from initial concepts through launch and ongoing operational support.
What you’ll get to do:
- Work hands-on with hardware that goes to orbit,
- Make decisions that shape our products from day one,
- Work alongside a highly experienced, cross-disciplinary team,
- Build hardware, test it and learn in fast iterations,
- Enjoy a modern central London office with flexible hybrid working options.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead top-level camera and sensor trade-offs to support a diverse range of different in-orbit servicing missions,
- Perform detailed optical designs and supporting analysis,
- Conduct tolerancing analysis and promote design for manufacture techniques,
- Consider and analyse the specific challenges associated with space-based optical systems: vibration, thermal and radiation,
- Specify requirements for optical components within the system,
- Collaborate with mechanical engineers on opto-mechanical integration and housing design,
- Validate designs through prototyping and testing,
- Select, evaluate, and monitor the suppliers of key optical components.
Desired Qualifications
- Demonstrated experience in developing complex camera and sensor systems, ideally (but not necessarily) in the space industry,
- Experience of key optical design software (e.g. Zemax),
- Strong understanding of optical principles,
- Knowledge of optical manufacturing processes and assembly techniques,
- Familiarity with optical metrology and testing methods,
- Highly organised, independent, and proactive working style with the ability to manage competing priorities and drive initiatives forward without constant supervision,
- Excellent communication skills across all levels, capable of translating complex technical concepts for diverse audiences.
Don’t meet every requirement? Apply anyway. We’d rather talk to someone with the right curiosity and drive than pass on a great candidate. If this role excites you, we want to hear from you.
What Unbound Offers
- 25 days of annual holiday plus a dedicated office shutdown period between Christmas and New Year,
- Benefits such as medical, dental, and life insurance,
- Hybrid working model with a balanced expectation of 3 days in the office per week,
- Annual training budget that you personally control, allowing you to invest in professional development, certifications, or learning opportunities aligned with your career goals.
About Unbound
At Unbound, we design and build the key technologies that enable the emerging In-Orbit Servicing, Assembly and Manufacturing (ISAM) ecosystem – cameras, sensors, and processing units that let spacecraft inspect, repair, and extend the life of satellites already in space. We are a small and highly-experienced team solving some of the hardest problems in the space industry.
Our aim is to enable great people to move fast: quick to hardware, quick to testing, quick to orbit!
The Opportunity
We are seeking an experienced Mechanical Engineer who can lead the mechanical design of our space-based payloads through every phase, from concepts, to building and testing prototypes to flight qualification and to support operations.
What you’ll get to do:
- Work hands-on with hardware that goes to orbit,
- Make decisions that shape our products from day one,
- Work alongside a highly experienced, cross-disciplinary team,
- Build hardware, test it and learn in fast iterations,
- Enjoy a modern central London office with flexible hybrid working options.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead top-level mechanical and mechanism payload trade-offs to support a diverse range of different in-orbit servicing missions,
- Develop detailed designs and 3D CAD models for payload structures, mechanisms and interfaces, collaborating with electrical, optical, and systems engineers,
- Conduct (or support) Finite Element Analysis (FEA) for structural integrity under launch loads (vibration, shock, acoustic) and thermal analysis (steady-state and transient) for orbital environments,
- Conduct tolerancing analysis and promote design for manufacture techniques,
- Create mechanical drawings of key components within the system,
- Validate designs through prototyping and testing,
- Lead or support environmental testing campaigns (thermal vacuum, random vibration, sine sweep, shock) and analyze test data to correlate with simulation models,
- Select, evaluate, and monitor the suppliers of key components.
Desired Qualifications
- Demonstrated experience in developing mechanical structures and mechanisms in the space industry,
- Experience of key design software (e.g. Solidworks),
- Strong understanding of mechanical principles,
- Knowledge of manufacturing processes and assembly techniques,
- Familiarity with vibration and thermal analysis (e.g. ANSYS, NASTRAN, ESATAN) and testing,
- Highly organised, independent, and proactive working style with the ability to manage competing priorities and drive initiatives forward without constant supervision,
- Excellent communication skills across all levels, capable of translating complex technical concepts for diverse audiences.
Don’t meet every requirement? Apply anyway. We’d rather talk to someone with the right curiosity and drive than pass on a great candidate. If this role excites you, we want to hear from you.
What Unbound Offers
- 25 days of annual holiday plus a dedicated office shutdown period between Christmas and New Year,
- Benefits such as medical, dental, and life insurance,
- Hybrid working model with a balanced expectation of 3 days in the office per week,
- Annual training budget that you personally control, allowing you to invest in professional development, certifications, or learning opportunities aligned with your career goals.
About Unbound
At Unbound, we design and build the key technologies that enable the emerging In-Orbit Servicing, Assembly and Manufacturing (ISAM) ecosystem – cameras, sensors, and processing units that let spacecraft inspect, repair, and extend the life of satellites already in space. We are a small and highly-experienced team solving some of the hardest problems in the space industry.
Our aim is to enable great people to move fast: quick to hardware, quick to testing, quick to orbit!
The Opportunity
We are seeking an experienced Electronics Engineer who can lead the development of complex space-grade electronics through every phase, from initial concepts and schematic design through PCB layout, protyping, qualification, launch and operational support.
What you’ll get to do:
- Work hands-on with hardware that goes to orbit,
- Make decisions that shape our products from day one,
- Work alongside a highly experienced, cross-disciplinary team,
- Build hardware, test it and learn in fast iterations,
- Enjoy a modern central London office with flexible hybrid working options.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead top-level electronics architecture trade-offs to support a diverse range of different in-orbit servicing missions,
- Perform schematic designs for mixed-signal, power, and digital systems – from concept through to detailed design,
- Design and integrate FPGA/SoC-based processing platforms for image acquisition and data processing (incl. AI applications),
- Develop sensor readout electronics, motor control circuits, power distribution and regulation and spacecraft interfaces (Spacewire, UART, LVDS, and others as required).
- Perform EEE component selection, derating analysis, and radiation assurance assessment,
- Conduct electrical simulation and analysis: power budgets, EMC considerations, thermal dissipation, etc.
- Drive PCB layout and manage PCB manufacturing,
- Collaborate with mechanical engineers on packaging and thermal management and with software engineers on SW-HW integration,
- Validate designs through prototyping and testing,
- Select, evaluate, and monitor the suppliers of key electronic components and assemblies.
Desired Qualifications
- Demonstrated experience in developing complex electronics systems, ideally (but not necessarily) in the space industry,
- Experience with schematic design and PCB layout tools (e.g. Altium Designer, Cadence, KiCad),
- Strong understanding of analogue, digital and power electronics principles,
- Knowledge of EEE component selection for high-reliability or space applications, including derating and radiation tolerance,
- Familiarity with electrical simulation tools and analysis techniques (e.g. SPICE, signal integrity, power),
- Highly organised, independent, and proactive working style with the ability to manage competing priorities and drive initiatives forward without constant supervision,
- Excellent communication skills across all levels, capable of translating complex technical concepts for diverse audiences.
Don’t meet every requirement? Apply anyway. We’d rather talk to someone with the right curiosity and drive than pass on a great candidate. If this role excites you, we want to hear from you.
What Unbound Offers
- 25 days of annual holiday plus a dedicated office shutdown period between Christmas and New Year,
- Benefits such as medical, dental, and life insurance,
- Hybrid working model with a balanced expectation of 3 days in the office per week,
- Annual training budget that you personally control, allowing you to invest in professional development, certifications, or learning opportunities aligned with your career goals.
About Unbound
At Unbound, we design and build the key technologies that enable the emerging In-Orbit Servicing, Assembly and Manufacturing (ISAM) ecosystem – cameras, sensors, and processing units that let spacecraft inspect, repair, and extend the life of satellites already in space. We are a small and highly-experienced team solving some of the hardest problems in the space industry.
Our aim is to enable great people to move fast: quick to hardware, quick to testing, quick to orbit!
The Opportunity
We are seeking an experienced Software Engineer who can lead the development of embedded and application-level software for our space-based payloads, from low-level firmware running on flight hardware through to ground-side tools and operational software.
What you’ll get to do:
- Work hands-on with hardware that goes to orbit,
- Make decisions that shape our products from day one,
- Work alongside a highly experienced, cross-disciplinary team,
- Build hardware, test it and learn in fast iterations,
- Enjoy a modern central London office with flexible hybrid working options.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead software architecture trade-offs to support a diverse range of different in-orbit servicing missions,
- Translate mission and payload requirements into software functional decompositions
- Design and implement high-level control loops that orchestrate payload behaviour: mode machine, state transitions, algorithm development,
- Develop embedded firmware for microcontrollers and FPGA/SoC platforms,
- Implement image acquisition, processing, and on-board AI algorithms that run on resource-constrained flight hardware,
- Develop control software for motors, actuators, and sensor readout systems,
- Collaborate with electronics engineers on hardware-firmware integration,
- Select, evaluate, and monitor the suppliers providing software,
- Support flight operations, anomaly investigation, and in-orbit software updates when needed.
- Our software stack spans a wide range of domains. You may not have experience in all of these, but you should be comfortable working across several of these. We work with specialist partners on elements of the flight software, and you’ll play a key role in directing and integrating that work.
Desired Qualifications
- Demonstrated experience in developing embedded or systems-level software, ideally (but not necessarily) in the space industry,
- Strong proficiency in C and/or C++, and python,
- Experience in one or more of: FPGA/SoC software development, real-time operating systems (RTOS), image processing, AI/ML deployment.
- Familiarity with spacecraft communication protocols (SpaceWire, CCSDS) or similar
- Familiarity with version control (Git), CI/CD, and software quality practices appropriate for safety-critical or high-reliability systems,
- Highly organised, independent, and proactive working style with the ability to manage competing priorities and drive initiatives forward without constant supervision,
- Excellent communication skills across all levels, capable of translating complex technical concepts for diverse audiences.
Don’t meet every requirement? Apply anyway. We’d rather talk to someone with the right curiosity and drive than pass on a great candidate. If this role excites you, we want to hear from you.
What Unbound Offers
- 25 days of annual holiday plus a dedicated office shutdown period between Christmas and New Year,
- Benefits such as medical, dental, and life insurance,
- Hybrid working model with a balanced expectation of 3 days in the office per week,
- Annual training budget that you personally control, allowing you to invest in professional development, certifications, or learning opportunities aligned with your career goals.