The Da Vinci Satellite team is recruiting! The different positions within the Core team, Technical team, Education team, and Business team can be found below. All positions listed start as soon as possible unless otherwise specified. If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to send us an email.
Core Team Positions
The Core Team is responsible for the overall coordination of the Da Vinci Satellite project. It brings together the project manager with the managers of the different departments to form a coherent vision and concrete plans for the entire project.
Project Manager (~8-16 hours per week)
As Project Manager, you will coordinate the Da Vinci Satellite project across the technical, education, business, and website teams. You will keep track of project planning, major deadlines, budget, recruitment, and dependencies between departments, while helping the different teams stay aligned as the project moves toward launch and educational deployment. You will work closely with subsystem leads, the rest of the core team, advisors, VSV, TU Delft contacts, and external stakeholders, helping turn project decisions into clear actions and follow-up. Desired skills include structured project coordination, communication, leadership, and experience working in multidisciplinary engineering projects.
Technical Manager (~8-16 hours per week)
As Technical Manager, you will oversee the technical development of Da Vinci Satellite together with the subsystem leads. You will coordinate progress across all technical subsystems, while keeping track of integration planning, testing, technical reviews, risks, and documentation. A large part of the role is keeping the department organised and connected as the different subsystems move toward integration and verification. You will also support onboarding and continuity within the technical team and help ensure technical work stays aligned with the broader mission and project planning. Desired skills include systems thinking, technical leadership, engineering project experience, and the ability to coordinate several parallel activities.
Education Manager (~8-16 hours per week)
As Education Manager, you will coordinate the development of the educational programme linked to the Da Vinci Satellite mission. You will guide the education team in creating and testing lesson modules, workshops, and interactive classroom activities for primary and secondary school students, while making sure the material remains technically accurate, accessible, and engaging. You will work with the technical, business, and website teams to connect the satellite mission with educational content, outreach events, school collaborations, and public-facing activities. Desired skills include educational content development, coordination, communication, and experience working in multidisciplinary teams.
Website Manager (~8 hours per week)
As the Website Manager, you’ll be the go-to person for keeping the platform running smoothly. Your responsibilities include defining goals and deadlines, keeping the team on track, and ensuring the website meets our vision of being user-friendly, educational, and engaging. You’ll communicate regularly with other teams, such as the education and core teams, to make sure everyone is aligned and working toward the same objectives. You’ll also manage and support the website designers, helping them bring their creative ideas to life while ensuring the platform stays functional and on schedule. You're going to work closely with the website developer to ensure a cohesive vision. Your role is all about leadership, coordination, and making sure the platform delivers a seamless experience for users.
Technical positions
The technical team is responsible for designing, building and testing the satellite. The team is divided into different subteams, namely, Payload, Systems, Software, Electrical and Ground Station & Operations.
Lead Dice Payload Engineer (~12-20 hours per week)
As Lead Dice Payload Engineer, you will be responsible for preparing the Flight Model of the dice payload, together with the dice hardware and dice software engineers. Desired skills include experience with CAD, knowledge of the space environment, good analytical skills, and project management skills.
Starting date: from February 2026 (latest start September 2026).
Lead TT&C Engineer (~12-14 hours per week)
As the lead TT&C engineer, you will be responsible for the management of the architecture definition of the TT&C subsystem, overseeing its software development, testing and integration, in the end ensuring that the satellite is capable of packaging houskeeping and payload data into transmittable packets, and decode the received data/commands from the Ground Station. You will ensure that the satellite is compliant with all the regualtory requirements regarding amateur radio transmission in space applications.
Starting date: from February 2026
Software/CDH Payload Manager (~8 hours per week)
As a Software/CDH Payload Manager, you will be responsible for the communication between the payload and on board computer, including: interfaces communication protocol, data processing, etc. Desired skills include a computer science background and C++ knowledge.
Starting date: as soon as possible.
On-Board Software Engineer (~8 hours per week)
As an On-Board Software Engineer, you will be responsible for the design, implementation and testing of diverse parts for the low level layer of the on board software. You will work with real flight hardware, trying to optimize a file system and other services in order to adapt them to the needs of the payload and other subsystems. Desired skills include embedded systems knowledge, a computer science background, and C/C++ knowledge.
Starting date: as soon as possible (latest start February 2026).
AOCS Simulation Engineer (~8 hours per week)
As an AOCS Simulation Engineer, you will be responsible for simulating the satellite’s attitude dynamics in space. You will also implement control algorithms and develop models of sensors, actuators, and the space environment. Desired skills include Python and MATLAB.
Starting date: April 2026.
TT&C AIV Engineer (~6 hours per week)
As an Assembly Integration & Verification engineer for TT&C, you will be responsible for hardware testing and documentation. Experience in hardware testing and troubleshooting are desired. Desired skills include I2C and C++.
Starting date: April 2026.
Educational positions
The education team is working hard on developing and testing the educational modules for both primary and secondary schools. These modules are direclty linked to the payload in the satellite.
Primary school (~4 hours per week)
You will be working in a team to develop an educational lesson package. These lessons are partly co-developed with the international primary school and focus on unconventional teaching methods with the aims of bringing space closer to Earth, literally.
High school (~4 hours per week)
You will be working in a team to develop masterclasses for high school students! The masterclass subjects range from, for example, Mars to Interplanetary Travel and aim to contain loads of unconventional educational methods. Expect loads of masterclass trial runs and testing sessions!
Business positions
The Business team focus on both finances as well as communications aspects.
The Communications team has a large range of responsibilities and opportunities to help with. Our team's main objectives involve expanding the project's outreach, as well as maintaining the Da Vinci Satellite corporate identity in order to build a following through recognizable and cohesive media and increasing team visibility towards students and the general public.
The Finance team is focused on getting funding for the project and taking care of the launch contract.
Social Media Strategist (~4 hours per week)
As a Social Media Strategist within the Communications team, you will be responsible for Da Vinci Satellite's social media, both planning and posting content. This notably includes keeping our Instagram and LinkedIn up to date, but also providing updates to our partners and writing blog posts for the website, and anything else you may wish to develop. You will have significant freedom in your function, using your own ideas and interpretation to expand the team's outreach, reaching students, professionals, and the general public.
Finance Team Member (~4 hours per week)
As a member of the Finance team of Da Vinci Satellite, it will be your main responsibility to locate and get in touch with companies and initiatives, willing to collaborate with the team, while sharing the same goals and objectives. These companies can range from small local businesses to multinationals and even national or global funds. Maintaining the financial health of the project requires professionalism, dedication and collaboration. You will be applying these principles in finance and business meetings as well as during our weekly work sessions. Contacting businesses, creating proposals and templates, scheduling prospect meetings, and gaining financial and corporate experience, having fun in the process, are all part of this invaluable work experience!