
Interstellar Lab · person (Paris
Senior Payload Design Engineer Full-time In-person or hybrid At Interstellar Lab, our mission is to build a future full of life, on Earth and beyond. We beli...
Senior Payload Design Engineer
Full-time
In-person or hybrid
At Interstellar Lab, our mission is to build a future full of life, on Earth and beyond.
We believe in a world where technology enables humans to live in harmony with nature, where biodiversity thrives and expands, and
where terrestrial life becomes multi-planetary.
To build this future, we design autonomous biospheric systems to grow plants with precision, on Earth and in Space. Our AI-powered
BioPods and BioCapsules leverage biosciences to reproduce and optimize growth conditions for a wide variety of high-value plants.
On Earth, we pioneer molecular and biofarming, boosting the production of metabolites and bioactive compounds while offering
sustainable, traceable, and high-quality natural ingredients to the beauty, fragrance, pharmaceutical, and nutraceutical
industries.
In space, we collaborate with agencies and private companies to develop biofarming units that advance life science research in
microgravity and lay the foundation for future biofactories in space, enabling innovative terrestrial applications and
long-duration space missions.
About the Role
As Senior Payload Design Engineer, you will be responsible for the design, development, and integration of experimental payloads
for near-Earth and orbital missions, including our current collaboration with VAST. The role spans concept definition, mechanical
and systems design, testing, and mission operations. Working with mechanical, electrical, and software engineers, you will ensure
that payloads meet mission objectives, safety requirements, and performance targets. This position is suited for engineers
experienced with institutional or commercial space programs who thrive in fast-paced, cross-disciplinary environments.
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Equal Opportunity
Interstellar Lab is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Interstellar Lab does not discriminate on the basis of race,
regional color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation,
gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with disability, or other
applicable legally protected characteristics.
ABOUT US STARK is a new kind of defence technology company revolutionizing the way autonomous systems are deployed across multiple domains. We design, develop and manufacture high performance unmanned systems that are software-defined, mass-scalable, and cost effective. This provides our operators with a decisive edge in highly contested environments. We’re focused on delivering deployable, high-performance systems - not future promises. In a time of rising threats, STARK is bolstering the technological edge of NATO Allies and their Partners to deter aggression and defend Europe - today. YOUR MISSION As our Senior Mechanical Design Engineer, you will own the mechanical architecture of STARK’s next-generation UAV platforms from concept to high-rate production. You will set technical direction, mentor engineers, and work closely with cross-functional teams to deliver highly reliable, certifiable, and field-deployable systems under aggressive timelines. You will both define mechanical design strategy and dive deep into CAD, tolerance stacks, and Design for Manufacture/Assembly (DFMA) prototypes. You will act as the company’s authority on mechanical design for airframes and payload integration, influencing platform-level decisions and ensuring designs are robust, scalable, cost-effective for mass production, and certifiable. RESPONSIBILITIES * Lead mechanical design for UK current and future UAV platforms * Define and enforce best practices for parametric modeling, GD&T, and tolerance stack-ups * Drive airframe material selection, structural layout, and manufacturability decisions * Oversee supplier engagement for structural components, composites, and assemblies Collaborate with stress, flight test, and systems teams to ensure structural integrity * Support and occasionally lead design reviews with leadership, partners, and certifying authorities * Lead mechanical design for UK current and future UAV platforms, focusing on design-for-manufacture (DFM) and high-rate production methods * Define and enforce best practices for parametric modeling, GD&T, and tolerance stack-ups, with an emphasis on production efficiency * Collaborate with stress, flight test, and systems teams to ensure structural integrity while optimising designs for mass production * Support and occasionally lead design reviews with leadership, partners, and certifying authorities, presenting trade-offs for production scale * Be hands-on with CAD (SolidWorks/CATIA), prototyping, and shop-floor troubleshooting, with a focus on process and design optimization for rate increase QUALIFICATIONS * Mechanical design experience, in ideally in aerospace / UAV / autonomous systems * Proven record of taking structures from concept through verification to high rate production (wing, fuselage, empennage) * Expert in SolidWorks (CATIA V5/V6 a plus) and tolerance stack analysis * Strong knowledge of composites, 3D printing, machining, injection moulding, and joining methods * Familiarity with MIL standards and EASA/FAA certification pathways (SC-Light UAS, CS-23) * Excellent communication skills - able to influence at exec and program level * Eligible for UK Security Clearance Our Commitment to the Armed Forces Community We are proud to hold the Bronze Award from the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS), reflecting our meaningful commitment and ongoing support for UK defence personnel. At our core, we believe in championing those who serve, those who have served, and their families. As part of this scheme, we are dedicated to providing an inclusive, supportive environment where members of the Armed Forces community can thrive and bring their invaluable skills to our team.
🚀 We’re on a mission to make money work for everyone. We’re waving goodbye to the complicated and confusing ways of traditional banking. After starting as a prepaid card, our product offering has grown a lot in the last 10 years in the UK. As well as personal and business bank accounts, we offer joint accounts, accounts for 16-17 year olds, a free kids account and credit cards in the UK, with more exciting things to come beyond. Our UK customers can also save, invest and combine their pensions with us. With our hot coral cards and get-paid-early feature, combined with financial education on social media and our award winning customer service, we have a long history of creating magical moments for our customers! 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What you’ll be working on: The Analytics Engineering team is responsible for building downstream data models from backend services with the desire to make our Data Warehouse a genuine competitive advantage for Monzo. We want a discipline capable of building an amazing Data Warehouse to support decision making, Business Intelligence, key financial reconciliation processes and best in class analytics and Data Science. You’ll enable our data driven approach, and: * Support the building of robust data models downstream of backend services (mostly in BigQuery) that support internal reporting, machine learning as well as financial and regulatory use cases. * Focus on optimisation of our Data Warehouse, spotting opportunities to reduce complexity and cost. * Help define and manage best practices for our Data Warehouse. This may include payload design of source data, logical data modelling, implementation, metadata and testing standards. * Set standards and ways of working with data across Monzo, working collaboratively with others to make it happen. * Take established best practices and standards defined by the team, applying them within other areas of the business. * Investigate and effectively work with colleagues from other disciplines to monitor and improve data quality within the warehouse. * Contribute to prioritisation of data governance issues * We all own and support the pipelines we contribute to, and on call support out of hours will be expected from time to time as part of this role We’d love to hear from you if… * You enjoy working with cross functional fast moving teams and are passionate about serving small businesses. * You are able to think strategically about the Business Banking product and how our underlying data models will unlock more insights for our team and more value for our customers. * You have a strong passion for data modelling, ETL projects, and Big Data. * You enjoy working with data streams from various services, such as financial, transactional, and operational systems. * SQL and data modelling are second nature to you, and you are comfortable with general Data Warehousing concepts. * You are committed to continuous improvement, proactively identifying opportunities and addressing challenges in your work and the work of others. NICE TO HAVES * Any experience working within a finance function or knowledge of accounting. * Experience working in a highly regulated environment (e.g. finance, gaming, food, health care). * Knowledge of regulatory reporting and treasury operations in retail banking * Exposure to Python, Go or similar languages. * Experience working with orchestration frameworks such as Airflow/Luigi * Have previously used dbt, dataform or similar tooling. * Used to AGILE ways of working (Kanban, Scrum) The Interview Process: Our interview process involves 3 main stages: * 30 minute recruiter call * 45 minute call with the hiring manager * Take home task * 2-part final stage Our average process takes around 3 weeks but we will always work around your availability.Please also use that email to let us know if there's anything we can do to make your application process easier for you, because of disability, neurodiversity or any other personal reason. What’s in it for you: ✈️ We can help you relocate to the UK ✅ We can sponsor visas 📍This role can be based in our London office, but we're open to distributed working within the UK (with ad hoc meetings in London). ⏰ We offer flexible working hours and trust you to work enough hours to do your job well, at times that suit you and your team. 📚Learning budget of £1,000 a year for books, training courses and conferences ➕And much more, see our full list of benefits here #LI-AS1 #LI-REMOTE ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Equal opportunities for everyone Diversity and inclusion are a priority for us and we’re making sure we have lots of support for all of our people to grow at Monzo. At Monzo, we’re embracing diversity by fostering an inclusive environment for all people to do the best work of their lives with us. This is integral to our mission of making money work for everyone. You can read more in our blog, 2026 Diversity and Inclusion Report and 2025 Gender Pay Gap Report. We’re an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to age, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, family or parental status, national origin, or veteran, neurodiversity or disability status. If you have a preferred name, please use it to apply. We don't need full or birth names at application stage 😊
🚀 We’re on a mission to make money work for everyone. We’re waving goodbye to the complicated and confusing ways of traditional banking. After starting as a prepaid card, our product offering has grown a lot in the last 10 years in the UK. As well as personal and business bank accounts, we offer joint accounts, accounts for 16-17 year olds, a free kids account and credit cards in the UK, with more exciting things to come beyond. Our UK customers can also save, invest and combine their pensions with us. With our hot coral cards and get-paid-early feature, combined with financial education on social media and our award winning customer service, we have a long history of creating magical moments for our customers! 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We operate 12+ products across multiple geographies, underpinned by 1,700+ data models and an analytics engineering team that’s scaling to match. We’re in the middle of a major data architecture transformation, expanding into new markets, and building the next generation of data infrastructure to support it all. We’re looking for a Staff Analytics Engineer to help shape how Borrowing builds and uses data at scale. Reporting to the Borrowing Data Director, you’ll work across product, credit, engineering, Data Platform, and analytics engineering teams to turn complex technical problems into clearer systems, stronger data products, and better business decisions. 🔑 You’ll play a key role by… * Architecting Borrowing’s data layer at scale. Partnering across Analytics Engineering, Product, Engineering, Credit, and Data Platform to shape how 1,700+ models across 12+ products are structured, connected, and evolved. 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Partnering with backend engineers on source data payload design, with product managers on measurement strategy, with credit teams on decisioning data, and with senior leadership on what’s possible and what’s next. * Leading through influence and leverage. You won’t manage people directly, but you’ll shape how an entire domain builds data. You’ll multiply the impact of AEs across Borrowing by setting the right patterns, unblocking architectural decisions, and raising the bar on what good looks like. 🤩 We’d love to hear from you if… * You think in systems, not just queries. You’ve designed data architectures that span multiple products or domains, and you know how to keep them coherent as they scale. You can take ambiguous problems and turn them into a clear technical direction, delivery sequence, and set of trade-offs. * You’ve built data products, not just data models. You understand the difference between a table that exists and a data asset that’s governed, documented, versioned, discoverable, and trusted. You’ve defined SLAs, contracts, interfaces, or ownership models for data consumers, and you’re excited to do this at scale. * You have deep fluency with analytics engineering systems and infrastructure. dbt at scale, BigQuery or equivalent, CI/CD for data, testing frameworks, and orchestration. You don’t just use these tools, you shape how teams use them. You’ve hit the scaling limits and know what to do about them. * You can design reusable feature layers. You’ve designed, contributed to, or have a clear vision for reusable feature layers that serve multiple consumers, including ML pipelines, dashboards, decisioning engines, and regulatory reporting. You understand the trade-offs between freshness, cost, granularity, correctness, and ease of use. * You’re comfortable at the platform boundary. You can have a productive conversation with a Data Platform engineer about ingestion patterns, streaming vs. batch trade-offs, schema evolution, and infrastructure costs. You don’t need to build the platform, but you need to shape what it delivers. * You connect technical choices to business outcomes. You care about whether data models, feature layers, and platform patterns actually improve decisions. You understand how product, credit, engineering, and operational teams use data, and you use that context to align people around better technical choices. * You lead through others. You create leverage not by writing more SQL, but by setting patterns, reviewing designs, unblocking teams, and raising the standard. You’re energised by making 30+ people more effective, not by being the single expert. * You communicate across altitudes. You can whiteboard a data architecture with a back-end engineer in the morning and present a strategic data roadmap to a director in the afternoon. You adapt your message to your audience without losing precision. * You care about credit products. You’re excited, or curious, about the complexity of lending, including risk, affordability, regulatory constraints, and multi-product dynamics. You see it as a fascinating data domain, not just a business vertical. Interview process Our typical process is structured as: * Recruiter call * Initial call * 3 x 1 hours sessions (final interview) Our average process takes around 3-4 weeks but we will always work around your availability. What’s in it for you: 💰 £121,600-164,600 base ✈️ We can help you relocate to the UK ✅ We can sponsor visas 📍This role can be based in our London office, but we're open to distributed working within the UK (with ad hoc meetings in London). ⏰ We offer flexible working hours and trust you to work enough hours to do your job well, at times that suit you and your team. 📚 Learning budget of £1,000 a year for books, training courses and conferences ➕ And much more, see our full list of benefits here #LI-AS #LI-Remote ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Equal opportunities for everyone Diversity and inclusion are a priority for us and we’re making sure we have lots of support for all of our people to grow at Monzo. At Monzo, we’re embracing diversity by fostering an inclusive environment for all people to do the best work of their lives with us. This is integral to our mission of making money work for everyone. You can read more in our blog, 2026 Diversity and Inclusion Report and 2025 Gender Pay Gap Report. We’re an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to age, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, family or parental status, national origin, or veteran, neurodiversity or disability status. If you have a preferred name, please use it to apply. We don't need full or birth names at application stage 😊