Space Law Expert

About the role

As our Space Law Expert you are the legal source of truth behind Caelex. You translate primary law — the EU Space Act, NIS2, COPUOS guidelines, export-control regimes, and national space legislation across dozens of jurisdictions — into the structured, unambiguous rules that power our assessment engines. Every verdict the platform produces has to be defensible, and you make sure it is. The stakes are real: the EU Space Act reaches every operator in the Union from 2030, with penalties of up to 2% of global turnover. Caelex spans 65 jurisdictions, so exhaustive correctness is the product. You will work shoulder-to-shoulder with engineering to encode the law, not just describe it.

What you’ll do

• Maintain and extend the regulatory knowledge base — EU Space Act, NIS2, national space laws, COPUOS/IADC, export control
• Validate engine outputs against primary sources and close gaps
• Author authoritative compliance content: article mappings, guides, and jurisdiction profiles
• Track regulatory change across jurisdictions and keep the corpus current and cited
• Advise enterprise customers and support sales on substantive regulatory questions
• Liaise with national competent authorities, ESA, and partner law firms
• Partner with engineering to encode legal requirements as machine-checkable rules

What you bring

• Law degree with a focus on space, aviation, telecom, or EU regulatory law (or equivalent)
• 3+ years in space or regulatory law — private practice, an agency, or in-house
• Working knowledge of the EU Space Act (COM(2025) 335), the Outer Space Treaty regime, and national space legislation
• Ability to translate dense legal text into structured, unambiguous rules
• Rigorous and citation-disciplined — comfortable working from primary sources
• Fluent in English

Nice to have

• Published space-law research or teaching experience
• Additional EU languages
• Experience at ESA, a national space agency, or an NCA
• Familiarity with NIS2 and export control (ITAR/EAR, EU dual-use)
• Exposure to RegTech or legal engineering
• Comfort working alongside software teams