About this job

Planetek Italia operates in many fields of application ranging from environmental and land monitoring to open-government and smart cities, including defense and security as well as scientific missions and planetary exploration.

We provide solutions and products for Earth observation with satellite, aircraft and drone data. We develop on-board software for satellites and data processing solutions for ground segment infrastructures. Our involvement in research and development activities supports human exploration of the solar system. We develop Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) in compliance with INSPIRE as well as solutions for Smart City and complex systems to support decisions that exploit geographic information, and Earth observation data, according to the new paradigms of Cloud and Software As a Service.

Planetek develops and integrates hardware and software infrastructures for the acquisition, processing and distribution of remote sensing data along their entire chain of production: from Earth Observation to Deep Space; from the Space Segment to the Ground Segment and the User Segment. Our main responsibilities fall into Systems and Software Engineering with strong verticalization towards Space Mission Analysis and Design (SMAD).

Responsibilities

As a system engineer, you’ll have to be able to look across multiple disciplines and viewpoints, from mission concepts to systems/ components design, from on-board SW implementation to final users’ applications. You will contribute to the design and implementation flow of space systems, turning needs into requirements into specifications, specifications into design and finalizing design with implementation and verification. You will be the technical interface with customers and partners and will coordinate technical tasks in the development team.

Profile

You have a Master’s degree or equivalent qualification in Electronic Engineering, TLC Engineering, SW Engineering, Computer Science or another relevant discipline and you have at least 5 years of professional experience, mostly on Space Systems Engineering. Specifically, you have skills in the following fields:

• Space missions analysis and development
• Space systems engineering
• Software engineering and object-oriented programming
• Programming languages: C/C++ and/or others
• Knowledge of aerospace software systems applicable standards, such as ECSS-E-ST-40C and software development practices
• Knowledge of on-board processors and processing architectures (SPARC LEON, RISC-V, ARM M and A series, multicore’s etc)
• Space communication protocols
• Model based engineering
• Software testing and validation approaches for space applications
• Proficiency in English

Also appreciated:

• Knowledge of ground support equipment and check-out systems
• Digital signal processing
• Experience with FPGAs or low-level Hardware programming
• Knowledge of SIL/ IEC 61508 software standard
• Experience with system validation that includes embedded software and/or remote systems
• Configuration management systems
• Agile development practices

The ideal profile of the successful candidate is completed by seriousness and reliability, excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, excellent organizational skills, strong ability to work within a team in order to meet specific objectives qualitatively and quantitatively defined, excellent relational and communicative skills, proactivity.