Satellite Software Design Placement (12 months)

Job Description:

Start date: 21st July 2025

Location: Portsmouth

Duration: 12 Months

Application closing date: We encourage you to apply early to avoid missing out on this opportunity! Please note we will close adverts as soon as we receive sufficient applications.

Benefits:

Salary: 22,250

37 hours per week // Flexible working hours // Hybrid working // Half day Fridays! // 25 days holiday plus bank holidays

*subject to completing full hours prior to this

About us: 

We are seeking keen intellects to join our versatile team in developing a new generation of digital satellite payloads. 

You will be immersed in a flight programme with access to experts in all disciplines needed to design complex global communication systems. Excellent team-working, innovative and analytical skills will be put to use to explore the technological and performance boundaries in an environment unlike anywhere on Earth.

The Processor Systems team are world-leaders in digital signal processors for modern communications satellites. Our products fly in a range of missions including global telecommunications, navigation constellations and space observatories beyond Earth orbit. We work with European colleagues and suppliers around the world, leveraging the most advanced technologies to deliver the best performance for our customers.

What you will be doing:

As part of this internship, you will be involved in a flight programme as part of a multi-disciplinary team working to ensure that a complex system comprising digital hardware and software components in space and on the ground comes together to meet all of our customers’ needs. This will involve the development and application of sophisticated software to simulate, control and test our new product designs. Typical activities include:

• Control software development and validation;

• Integration of software with satellite digital hardware;

• Simulation modelling of satellite digital systems.

Requirements:

Our placements are open to Undergraduates only. Therefore it is mandatory for candidates to be an undergraduate for the whole duration of the placement. Please inform your graduation date on your application.

*Please  ensure you include your CV and a cover letter for your application to be considered*

Successful candidates will be able to demonstrate the following:

• Working towards a degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science or related discipline with a strong software content;

• Proficiency in C, Python or similar software programming languages;

• Enthusiasm for digital electronic technologies;

• Initiative to find creative solutions to complex technical problems;

• Desire to collaborate within a multi-disciplinary engineering team environment;

• Quick learner, capable of absorbing a wide range of skills and expertise.

SECURITY CLEARANCE: Eligibility to gain UK SC Security Clearance OR You will be subject to a BPSS check (including a criminal record check). 

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This job requires an awareness of any potential compliance risks and a commitment to act with integrity, as the foundation for the Company’s success, reputation and sustainable growth.

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