About this job

Sapienza Consulting, a tpgroup company, is recruiting an Antenna & Sub-Millimetre Waves Engineer for Sapienza to work on our Customers Site (ESA-ESTEC).

Sapienza has been a partner of ESA for almost 30 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

• Support Antenna Test campaigns within the ESTEC Antenna Laboratory, including test definition and preparation, test execution and delivery of data/test report to the customer;
• Perform testing activities in Spherical, Planar, Cylindrical Near Field, Compact Range and Material RF Characterisation facilities, including test plans and test setup preparation, operation of the test ranges and analysis of test results;
• Perform research testing activities that challenge the current state-of-the-art in space antenna testing, aiming at enabling new testing capabilities and fulfil the needs of future ESA space missions in all space applications (Earth Observation, Navigation, Science, Telecommunications, Human Space Flight and Space Transportation)
• Support the Antenna Laboratory Maintenance and Equipment Calibration activities;
• Support to Antenna Design and Modelling activities;
• Hands-on antenna modelling and testing support to projects.

Profile

• Master’s degree in Engineering;
• Minimum 10 years of relevant experience;
• General background in antenna technologies and experience in antenna testing (preferably in the space domain);
• Good working knowledge of Near and Far field antenna testing systems;
• Capability for performing activities related to all aspects of radiative antenna testing and integration of antenna systems in an autonomous way;
• Experience in maintenance and calibration of general RF antenna laboratory test equipment and instrumentation;
• Experience with handling of space hardware is considered an asset;
• Good working knowledge on antenna systems and design approaches
• Good working knowledge on latest antenna design and modelling software tools
• Proactive attitude to solving problems
• Good organisational skill
• Fluent in English; knowledge of another ESA member-state language is an asset

Candidates must be eligible to work in the EU