Lead Design Engineer (all genders)

🚀 Challenge the Impossible

About Beyond Gravity

Headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland, Beyond Gravity is not your typical space company. We're a unique blend of agility, speed, and innovation, fusing a start-up mindset with decades of industry expertise and a track record of 100% mission success. Our dynamic team of over 1700 professionals, spread across 13 locations in six countries, is dedicated to pushing the boundaries of what is technically feasible. We're not just building crucial products for the satellites and launchers industry, we’re helping to improve life on earth.

Your crew:

Join our multidisciplinary team of 60 engineers, where you’ll develop cutting-edge launcher structures for the payloads of tomorrow. You’ll work in a multicultural environment, serving a global customer base and engaging with a broad range of technologies. Our collaborative and lean organisation fosters creativity and professional growth, supported by highly skilled experts. Here, you’ll have the opportunity to outperform yourself and learn something new every day, as each day brings unique chances to go Beyond.

Your Mission:

• Technical Leadership & Expertise

· Brings extensive multi-disciplinary engineering expertise and leads complex, cross-functional technical tasks.

· Acts as a second-level technical escalation point and provides expert support during project reviews for his discipline.

· Leads the technical committee of senior engineers responsible for key design decisions.

· Defines and harmonizes the technical roadmap, competencies, and design methodologies across global engineering teams.

· Reviews technical documentation and deliverables, ensuring alignment with product- and mission-specific requirements.

· Owns technical, budget, and schedule responsibility for assigned work packages (e.g., 3D concept/detail design, manufacturing drawings, BOMs, ICDs, change request, mass budgets).

· Applies project management tools to meet cost, technical, and schedule objectives.

· Collaborates with manufacturing, operations, quality, and other discipline to support production environment.

· Participates in bidding activities, including proposals, quotations, concept development, and make-or-buy decisions.

· Represents the engineering department in negotiations and reviews with customers, suppliers, and subcontractors.

· Coaches and mentors less experienced engineers, supporting their onboarding and professional growth.

· Leads the department’s Training Academy for Talent Development, organizes workshops, and fosters a culture of innovation and continuous learning.

· Contributes to the hiring process and helps identify and maintain key competencies within the discipline.

· Process & Quality Management

· Ensures compliance with internal processes and actively contributes to their improvement, especially in design-related areas.

· Participates in Non-Conformance Review Boards (NRBs), leads root cause analyses (RCAs), and implements corrective and preventive actions.

· Promotes global knowledge sharing through lessons learned and continuous improvement initiatives.

· Supports the development of engineering tools, standards, and processes for new and existing products.

· Strategic & External Engagement

· Contributes to defining the company’s technical direction and long-term engineering strategy.

· Identifies emerging trends and technologies, integrating them into the product roadmap and engineering practices.

· Builds and maintains relationships with external stakeholders and represents the company at key industry events (e.g., conferences, trade fairs).

· Reports to and supports Manager Development Engineering Launchers

Your Story:

• University Bachelor/master’s degree in aerospace engineering, mechanical engineering or similar.
• Minimum 10 years of technical experience with proven expertise and track records in mechanical design of composite structures & subsystems
• Broad understanding, competence and experience in Engineering design processes, tools, standards and methodologies

o Leadership skills combined with excellent communication skills.

o Acting in a leading role for a minimum of three years

· Nice to have’s:

o Space or Aerospace experience

o Knowledge of the space industry and market

o Project Management Acumen

Why Beyond Gravity?

• Work in an international environment with global mindset and high-tech products that will fly into space
• A highly specialized and motivated team with a lot of know-how in a unique industry
• We live a hands-on mentality and take suggestions for improvement seriously
• Attractive employment conditions (contribution to public transport, trainings and development opportunities, full paid maternity/paternity leave and many more)
• Flexible and mobile working and at least 5 weeks of vacation with possibility to buy additional vacation

🌌Are you ready for lift-off?

Our core values - Passionate, Together, and Curious - transform challenges into opportunities. Embark on a journey to transcend the ordinary with us. Propel your career to new heights by applying before 31/07/2025. We‘re actively reviewing candidates and will promptly select the ideal fit for our team.

For questions regarding the recruitment process, please contact: Stefan Hunger | | E-Mail schreiben

Beyond Gravity is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We welcome and encourage applications from all qualified individuals, regardless of race, color, religion, sex, gender, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other legally protected categories.

Applications by e-mail cannot be considered. We do not accept dossiers from recruitment agencies for this position.

Zürich Flughafen, ZH, CH