About this job

Sapienza Consulting, a tpgroup company, is recruiting an Optical Instrument – Mission System Engineer for Sapienza to work on our Customers Site (ESA-ESTEC).

Sapienza has been a partner of ESA for over 25 years, and we pride ourselves in supporting a wide range of missions including Galileo, MTG, Copernicus and ExoMars. Our team is international with activities across the U.K., the Netherlands, North Macedonia, Belgium, Luxembourg, France, Germany, Italy and Spain.

Responsibilities

• The successful candidate will report to the Head of the Optical Instruments section.
• He/she will liaise with various members of the division, supporting the section in the area of instruments, optics technologies, calibration.

To support the Future Missions and instrument Division (EOP-8M) for the preparatory activities of new Earth Observation (EO) missions and to follow developments such as:

• To critically review the work performed by industry within studies run by the Division, mainly during phase 0 and phase A of the EO missions.
• To carry out general and specific space analysis and design tasks for active optical payloads, such as lidars, under supervision of ESA staff,
• Review Technical Notes and actively participate to progress meetings related to on-going lidars and active optical instruments activities,
• Investigate, propose and support the follow-up of studies on optical instruments and technologies,

To support the Instrument Performance Engineering activities for future Earth Observation missions. In particular the tasks include:

• The development, implementation and validation of (complex) performance models of optical space-borne instruments, both passive and active instruments;
• The assessment of the instruments performance;
• The contribution to meetings within ESA, industry and potentially with users.

Profile

• Master’s degree or equivalent qualification in Physics with background in Optical Engineering.
• At least 4 years of relevant work experience
• Good familiarity with computer programs such as Excel, Python.
• Good communication and technical writing skills.
• Methodical and proactive,
• Good general knowledge of ESA EOP missions,
• Experience in laser based optical payload concepts and performance modelling
• 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 13/02/2022 to jobs@sapienzaconsulting.com

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