About this job

Sapienza Consulting, a tpgroup company, is recruiting an RF Payloads Plus Microwave & Mmwaves Engineer for Sapienza to work on our Customers Site (ESA-ESTEC).

The candidate will be assigned to the Payload Engineering section and will work in one or more of the following domains:

• RF Navigation Payloads
• RF and Microwave Remote Sensing Instruments for Earth Observation
• RF Satellite Communication Payloads

Responsibilities

• Contribute to internal R&D activities for the design, modelling, architectural trade-off and performance assessment of advanced RF telecommunication and/or navigation payloads, with main emphasis on payloads based on digital signal processing and active antennas, and RF instruments for earth observation (Synthetic Aperture Radars, Altimeters, Scatterometers, Radiometers)
• Perform technical management of R&D activities with industry/institutions in the field of advanced payload concepts and sub-systems/equipment development
• Provide RF payload technical support to ESA projects and programmes
• Contribute to the generation and promotion of innovative ideas for future satellite missions in the field of RF payloads, including the definition of ESA R&D programmes
• Define technical requirements and statements of work for R&D activities to be performed by industry, from early conceptual studies to full hardware development
• Carry out computer simulations at system/subsystem level for the assessment of end-to-end payload and instrument performance Contribute to the development/usage of section related laboratory facilities and analysis/simulation tools,
• Maintain state-of-the-art expertise by monitoring the RF/Microwave systems technological trends and applying them in the day-to-day tasks

Profile

• Master or PhD in Telecommunications, Microwave or RF Electronics Engineering,
• At least 4 years of relevant work experience on design, development and testing of Radio Frequency Payloads in the domain of Navigation and/or Earth observation and/or Telecommunications
• Knowledge and Experience on the following topics are considered an asset:
  • Radio frequency and microwave payloads technologies based on active phased array antennas
  • Transmit/Receive Modules for microwave payloads
  • Digital signal processing units, and experience on payloads based on digital signal processing
  • End-to-end payload performance and signal quality analysis
  • State-of-the-art RF analogue and (high-speed) digital signal processing techniques and technologies
  • Software and simulation tools and programming (Matlab/Simulink, ADS/VSS, C/C++, Python)
  • Promoting cooperation and team-working, problem solving
• 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 October 11, 2021 to jobs@sapienzaconsulting.com

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