About this job

Sapienza Consulting is recruiting a Radio Navigation Receiver Engineer for Sapienza to work on our Customers Site (ESA-ESTEC) supporting the Directorate of Technology, Engineering and Quality.

*Please note the starting date might be slightly delayed due to COVID-19.

Responsibilities

• Support to Navigation Projects (e.g. EGNOS and GALILEO) and R&D activities in the fields of system and receivers performances in a hybrid PNT framework (GNSS algorithms at signal and position level, dead-reckoning motion sensors such as INS, vision-based INS, alternative PNT systems, use of signals from cellular network, etc.)
• Participation in studies supporting current and future PNT systems definition and/or analysis, in particular for what concerns system performances and receiver algorithms (signal processing, advanced hybrid PNT algorithms, situational awareness and mitigation of local impairments) for improved availability, reliability and resilience
• Participation to the activities supporting standardization and technical working groups addressing the aforementioned topics Design, definition and follow up of industrial contracts related to the aforementioned topics, including R&D activities and./or procurement of GNSS testbeds and receivers for infrastructure or user technologies/user segments
• Support design, implementation, maintenance and operation of Radio Navigation equipment, complex Radio Navigation simulation tools and test facilities for testing features (end-to-end performances, receivers, etc.) in the activities

Profile

• Master’s Degree in Engineering
• At least 04 years of relevant work experience
• Fluent in English; knowledge of another ESA member-state language is an asset

Background and experience (including hands-on tests and field trials) inseveral of the following fields:

• GNSS and associated user technologies, non-GNSS positioning systems (e.g. alternative PNT, 5G, etc.) and associated user technologies
• Advanced signal processing and estimation algorithms applied to PNT (for instance including but not limited to some of the following: MIMO signal processing, Kalman filter, particle filter, artificial intelligence and machine learning for sensor fusion)

Contact:

Candidates must be eligible to work in the EU

Please send your CV (in English) as soon as possible, but no later than 01st of June of 2020 to jobs@sapienzaconsulting.com

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