Senior RF Payload Engineer

Telespazio Belgium can count on almost 40 years of experience in the field of Space Operations Service & Engineering activities.

We provide a significant contribution to the most major Space programs of the European Space Agency. Our core business is to work on the ground to build bridges into space, contributing to the success of ambitious missions.

The European Space Agency is our biggest client and we provide highly qualified employees to many sites of ESA but mainly for ESTEC in the Netherlands, and we provide a permanent contract with great benefits, a good salary, a relocation package along with genuine support to our employees.

On behalf of the European Space Agency, we are looking for a highly skilled Senior RF Payload Engineer to work in ESTEC, in the Netherlands.

What is expected from you:

• Contribution to the engineering work in the field of RF Payloads and microwave instruments in support to ESA Projects, which includes:
• Supporting Staff in interfacing with Projects (and Studies). This includes:
• Providing expertise to support Projects (and Studies) throughout all project phases;
• Performing and documenting relevant analyses;
  
• Supporting the implementation of industrial project activities;
• Supporting and performing “in-house” design and trade-offs to support project specific technology developments;
• Supporting the implementation of industrial project activities;
• Carrying out computer simulations at system/subsystem level for the assessment of end-to-end RF payload performance;
• Providing hands-on RF payload modelling and testing support to projects, which will require proper coordination with the corresponding Laboratory Service.
• Supporting and contributing to meetings and reviews.
• Identification, implementation, validation, and operation of the relevant section tools, which includes:
• Providing expertise related to the software, hardware and data related tools;
• Participating in the development, validation, deployment and maintenance of relevant internal software tools and databases;
• Liaising with Technical Responsible for the proper configuration of software / hardware either developed in the service itself or originating from external activities.
• Operating the tools for the purpose of supporting Projects or ESA R&D activities.
• Support to Staff in the implementation of R&D activities in the technical domain. This includes:
• Providing technical inputs to the definition of technology roadmaps and contributing to relevant reviews and meetings;
• Monitoring applicable scientific and technological trends and maintaining stateof-the-art expertise in RF Payloads;
• Providing inputs to documentation and meetings / reviews, conducting relevant technical analyses;
• Contribute to the definition of technical requirements and statements of work for the tasks to be performed by industry from early conceptual studies to full hardware development;
• Reviewing output from industry / academia and providing inputs to the ESA Technical Officer. This includes – when relevant – the conduction of software or of hardware tests in a Divisional laboratory, which will require proper coordination with the corresponding Laboratory Service;
• Supporting the Technical Officer in meeting with industry / academia;
• When required, organizing ad hoc meetings with industry / academia and reporting on their outcome to the ESA Technical Officer.
• In the frame of these functional tasks, technical activities are expected to include:
• Architecture definition and performance, functionality & flexibility evaluation telecommunication & navigation payloads with an RF interface encompassing analogue, digital and optical technologies,
• Architecture definition and performance, functionality evaluation of remote sensing active (e.g. Synthetic Aperture Radars, Radar altimeters, Active sounding Scatterometers, Atmospheric Radars, etc.) and passive (e.g. microwave and mmwaveradiometers, etc.) instruments and associated calibration techniques.
• Study and implementation of new architectures and techniques for RF payloads and microwave instruments, encompassing analogue, digital electronics and optical technologies,
• Apportionment of performance requirements and generation of specifications down to equipment and antenna level in close cooperation with relevant sections
• Development of simulation tools and associated paradigms in support to the design, and performance evaluation of payloads and instruments.
• Definition, design, development and characterisation of Payload/Instrument Calibration systems and techniques.
• Definition, design, development and characterisation of calibration transponders.
• Support the technology harmonisa