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September is hiring

September is hiring

And BepiColombo is having a moment 💪

Jaime Martín
September 04, 2026

Hey,

I said September is when people come back and start hiring for real. Well. Here we are.

Also: Ariane 6 just did its first geostationary launch perfectly, just as we’re used to. Adding to that: there was €1B IRIS² order and BepiColombo arrived at Mercury! So quite a busy start of the month.

On to the jobs 👇

Quick TLDR: very many cool jobs (as usual), the featured FPGA in Ghent is still there (apply!) and there’s an ESO studentship deadline on 20 October.

🚀 Spotlight: the best jobs → findaspacejob.com

Here are some of best space jobs live today:

Featured Space Jobs

FPGA Engineer @ EDGX (in sunny Belgium😉)
👉 Still open and still not late to apply! Build flight FPGA for onboard compute, and the hardware is already flying (missions launched March 2026). Belgian spacetech, on-site in Ghent. If you skipped it in August, don’t skip it now.

This week's picks

Navigation Systems Engineer (d/f/m) @ Airbus Defense and Space (Germany)
👉 Who isn’t into GNSS, Galileo and GPS? Well if you are then you might be interested in this opportunity: I won’t spoil it so you go and check it out.
Doctoral Student in Urban Heat Prediction Using AI and Earth Observation @ KTH (Sweden)
👉 For the researchers and software/AI pros: interested in mapping urban air temperature with satellite data, forecasting and ML? I thought so: deadline 24 September
Doctoral student in Astrophysics @ KTH (Sweden)
👉 X-ray astronomy: supernovae and their remnants, XMM-Newton and Chandra. What else?
ESO Studentship Programme Europe 2026/2027 @ ESO (Germany)
👉 1–2 year PhD studentship at ESO HQ. Deadline 20 October. (Chile version is on the board too if that’s the move. We’re now at the end of summer here while they are starting their spring… just saying)
IRIS² Future Services Integration and Exploitation Officer @ ESA (Belgium)
👉 Pretty self explanatory: quite a big and important role right there. Please keep IRIS2 (or try to pls) under schedule - otherwise we’re cooked
Cybersecurity Trainee @ SatCen (Spain)
👉 Six months in the cyber team at EU satellite intelligence. Recent grad or last year of the degree. This one closes on the 16th so better be quick
Space Weather System Engineer @ ESA (Germany)
👉 Who doesn’t like a bit of space weather? Now space weather is a very hot topic XD lol but extremely important (in case you need convincing)
and a few additional ones on the board 👇

Not seeing your role? The full list is at youaintgonnabelievethis.com.

Very interesting things are commmmmmmming. In the meantime: if you’re hiring: why not reach out and hire some of the best space talent out there?

🗞️ This week in space

Yesterday, after eight years, BepiColombo actually started arriving at Mercury.

Not parked-in-orbit arriving. The transfer module that dragged the two science orbiters all the way there finally separated, and the signal came back via Cebreros: spacecraft healthy. The mothership is now tumbling past Mercury with no way to steer, which is a bit unfortunate, but it’s got the job done.

ESA.

If you missed the wait from ESOC (almost two hours for the signal… I would have been sweating): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oC7lQngNG3o

And if you want to follow what happens next, this page is actually super good: BepiColombo's arrival at Mercury

Meanwhile, Ariane 6's first trip to GEO went perfectly (we can now say we’ve got used to this, no?). Now MTG-I2 is on its way and Europe’s latest weather trio is complete.

And then also ESA signed real contracts for the European Launcher Challenge: €198m for Isar (Spectrum), €187m for RFA (RFA One), €159m for PLD Space (Miura 5). They have to actually reach orbit before ESA starts buying launches but it’s still great news!

And IRIS2 is not just a meme this week. OHB won a contract worth nearly €1 billion for eighteen ~2.6t MEO platforms for IRIS2. The first launches are expected for 2029…………. and the services should begin by……. 2030……………………. for sure

But despite the timeline, that for sure means more work for OHB in Bremen, so keep an eye on that too.