About this job

Sapienza Consulting, a tpgroup company, is recruiting a SAR Performance Engineer for Sapienza to work on our Customers Site (ESA-ESTEC).

Responsibilities

You will work within the Copernicus Sentinel-1 Project team and will report to the Sentinel-1 Payload Manager. You will be in charge of monitoring the status of the SAR performance of the different Sentinel-1 spacecraft, in terms of prediction, assessment, analysis and computation.

The responsibilities include in particular:

• Supporting the industrial activities concerning the prediction, assessment, analysis and computation of the end-to-end SAR performance
• Supporting the flow-down of the end-to-end SAR performance requirements onto the Payload instrument and subsystems specification, and, in close cooperation with the Spacecraft team, the Spacecraft related subsystems specification
• Monitoring in close cooperation with the Payload team, the overall Payload instrument characterisation definition, and supporting the monitoring of the subsystem and component characterisation as required
• Monitoring the operation of the instrument simulator, ensuring that the performance is appropriate to fulfil the SAR instrument verification as required, and support any additional definition, development and verification
• Supporting the Payload team, in his/her area of expertise, on the definition of the Payload Assembly, Integration, Characterisation, Calibration and Verification approach
• Reviewing the project documentation as produced throughout the project lifetime in the area of instrument performance

Profile

• Master’s or equivalent in Radar or Electromagnetics Engineering
• At least 4 years of relevant work experience
• Knowledge of SAR theory and performance parameter definitions.
• Familiarity with SAR performance analysis tools and data processing techniques is desirable
• Practical experience in the field of Synthetic Aperture Radar Techniques and Performance computation
• Experience relevant to the task description
• Ability to work both autonomously and as part of a team within the boundaries of assigned tasks and a stringent schedule
• Fluent in English; knowledge of another ESA member-state language is an asset

Contact:

Candidates must be eligible to work in the EU

Please send your CV (in English) as soon as possible, but no later than September 20, 2021 to jobs@sapienzaconsulting.com

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