Design for Manufacturability Engineer

In the fast-growing small satellite market, we are looking for a motivated Design for Manufacturability (DfM) Engineer to join our Manufacturing Assembly, Integration and Testing department. As a DfM Engineer in the space industry, you will act as the technical bridge between product design and production, ensuring that all designs are optimized for high-reliability, low-risk, cost-effective manufacturing.

You will work closely with multidisciplinary teams—including engineering, production and quality—to identify and resolve manufacturability issues early during the product lifecycle. This role is crucial for ensuring flight hardware and ground support equipment meet space-grade manufacturing-, material-, and reliability standards, while being cost effective.

Your main responsibilities:

Design Review & Feedback

• Perform Design for Manufacturability assessments during PDR, CDR, and MRR phases.

• Provide early design feedback to engineering teams on tolerances, critical features, and manufacturability constraints.

• Support ECSS-compliant design reviews and ensure DRDs and DRLs are addressed.
  

Process Compatibility & Production Readiness

• Validate design compatibility with internal and supplier manufacturing processes: machining, surface treatment, soldering, cleanroom assembly, etc.

• Evaluate tooling, fixture, and equipment needs; initiate special tool requests as required.

Industrialization & Documentation

• Translate designs into complete production documentation: routings, work instructions, traveler packages, etc.

• Participate in production trials, prototypes, and First Article Inspections (FAI).

Material & Supply Chain Integration

• Verify material availability, obsolescence risks, and supply chain readiness for flight and non-flight parts.

• Collaborate with procurement and engineering to select space-qualified materials and components.

Design-to-Cost / Design-to-Reliability

• Drive design-to-cost strategies while balancing technical reliability, performance, and compliance.

• Suggest alternative processes, materials, or designs to reduce cost and risk.

Standards & Compliance

• Ensure compliance with applicable standards (e.g., IPC, ECSS, NASA-STD).

• Support manufacturing readiness reviews (MRR), test readiness reviews (TRR), and configuration audits.

• Degree in Industrial Engineering, or similar.

• 3–7 years experience in manufacturing or design engineering (space or high-reliability industry preferred).

• Strong understanding of precision manufacturing, and electromechanical systems.

• Experience with GD&T, tolerance stack-ups, and broad range of materials and EEE-parts.

• Familiarity with ECSS standards, especially for materials, mechanical parts, and verification (e.g. ECSS-Q-ST-70, ECSS-E-ST-10).

• Excellent English communication skills.

Preferred:

• Experience with CAD (e.g., CATIA, SolidWorks, Creo) and PCB Design Software (e.g. Altium, Eagle).

• Proficiency with ERP/MRP systems and PLM tools.

• Knowledge of additive manufacturing, CNC machining, and PCB manufacturing.

• Strong analytical and documentation skills

Why should you join us?

We bring together a team of dedicated people from all over the world that are fun and pleasant to work with. We are a very down to earth organization while at the same time being a global leader in the field of nanosatellites.

We greatly encourage new ideas and are open to suggestions from all employees on how to make ISISPACE a better company. Depending on your own interest and qualifications, you can have a career in technology, either as a specialist or a generalist. Alternatively, there are opportunities in a managerial or project management role.