Systems Engineer / Analyst Background

🚀 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 1800 professionals, spread across 14 locations in seven countries, is dedicated to pushing the boundaries of what is technically feasible. We're not just building crucial products for the satellites, launchers and semiconductor industry, we’re helping to improve life on earth.

Your Crew

Join our dynamic team of 25 in Zurich, where your role will be pivotal in executing comprehensive verification and qualification campaigns. Our team is divided into three specialized branches: Structural Testing, Environmental Simulation, and the Material Laboratory. We work on a diverse range of products, from individual components to complete assemblies, including rocket parts, satellite mechanisms, and occasionally entire satellites.

At Beyond Gravity, you’ll collaborate with a diverse group of test engineers, system engineers, test technicians, materials and process engineers, and designers, all bringing interdisciplinary skillsets to ensure successful product qualifications. What unites us is our shared commitment to our core values: Curiosity, Passion, and Teamwork.

Your Mission

Systems Engineering competency

• Challenge test requirements, align on test approach and define test scope with customer.
• Lead and coordinates technical activities with the objective of meeting test requirements within the given budget and agreed schedule.
• Lead and coordinates technical proposals, quotations, concept work and trade studies related to testing activities.
• Support processes and product continuous improvements. Propose market-oriented initiatives to improve existing technologies and testing processes
• Break down the technical requirements to subsystems generating testing specifications for customer, supplier and subcontractors. Tracks the requirements compliance status.
• Plan technical testing work packages, e.g. through the Design Development and Verification Plan.
• Write and review technical documentation (e.g. Test plan, analysis reports…), project related deliverables and other specifications related to his field of work. Adapt to the product- and mission-specific requirements.
• Perform technical risk management and perform Root Cause Analysis.
• Provide engineering support to production.
• Evaluate and ensure meeting the verification/qualification success criteria. Justify towards the customer.
• Represent engineering field during negotiations and reviews with customers and suppliers or subcontractors. Act as test engineering point of contact for customers.

Analysis competency

• Conduct complex analysis tasks without supervision within Testing:
• Define analysis approaches to investigate mechanical design problems or verify solutions.
• Establish analysis methods and create mathematical models for static and dynamic FE analysis.
• Perform static and dynamic analysis.
• Perform test predictions, test evaluations and correlations.
• Perform detailed stress and strength verification analysis.
• Support with expertise from testing during product development, production support, innovation, and project.
• Perform technical analysis with the objective of achieving confidence regarding the achievability of given testing requirements with the available testing equipment and facilities.
• Prepare test predictions regarding stress, strains and deformation as a basis for the definition of the acceptable load introduction and direction; define expected margins of safety

Your Story

• University/ETH master’s degree in aerospace engineering, mechanical engineering or similar.
• Three years of experience as systems engineer or equivalent lead engineer role in a relevant engineering discipline (e.g. stress engineering, thermal engineering, test engineering).
• Experience as analysis engineer or equivalent engineer role in a relevant engineering discipline (e.g. stress analysis, thermal analysis, test engineering).
• FE Analysis with NASTRAN, Hyperworks and/or Abaqus.
• Detailed stress analysis.
• Mechanical engineering.
• Advanced English language skills (reading, writing and speaking), German is a plus

Nice to have’s:

• Experience with composite design is advantageous
• Experience with IBM DOORs for requirement management is advantageous
• Advanced knowledge in detailed stress analysis using aerospace methods.
• Advanced knowledge in mechanical layout of aerospace structures and components.
• Advanced knowledge in analysis of composites and composite structures.
• Knowledge of the space industry and technologies

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 30/05/2025. We‘re actively reviewing candidates and will promptly select the ideal fit for our team.

For questions regarding the position, please contact: Tobias Gerngross | | E-Mail schreiben

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, ZH, CH