About this job

Sapienza Consulting, a Serco company, is recruiting a System Integration and Verification Support 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

Follow up and coordinate the development of required System AIV documentation, test campaign organization notes, test plans, RVMs/VCDs, and test cases/procedures:

• Participation to RVM Workshops.
• Participation to Test Cases Workshops.
• Participation to Qualification Campaign definition.
• Completion of SI&V plan coordinated and agreed with the ground segment.
• Completion of Test Campaign organization notes.

Completion of Test Campaign organization notes:

• Follow up the System Level qualification campaigns.
• System test witnessing.
• Support the day-to-day follow up of the SIV testing activities and maintenance of SIV/IVQ activities planning.
• Support SIV performance testing including INT negative tests.

Follow up qualification at segment level especially when contributing to system qualification:

• Track segment delivery schedules and in particular when they will be installed on segment platforms.
• Ensure follow-up of segment qualification regarding the delivery of required segment level credits.
• Follow-up of critical segment NCRs in particular when they affect system qualification.

Review test procedures, attend TRRs, PTRs, TRBs, review qualification test results, approve the corresponding qualification evidence captured in the system verification control documentation:

• Review of Test Scenarios and Test Procedures.
• Participation to TRRs/TRMs/PTRs/TRBs for the qualification test activities.
• Act as ESA witness for the qualification test activities.
• Follow the Requirements Qualification Status.

Follow up the verification of system and OPS non-conformances (NCRs, Ars), ensuring that critical issues are solved with maximum priority and maintaining the overall Galileo G1 qualification status:

• Support the weekly System Non-conformance Review Board.
• Ensure that NCRs solved at segment level are included in a qualification and/or non-regression test.
• Support when needed the ARB discussions for OPS anomalies.

Support the configuration control and planning process for the Galileo system under development:

• SIV representative in ESA System Exploitation CCB.
• SIV representative in weekly GSOP CCB.
• SIV representative in MTP (mid-term plan) meetings.

Participate, as requested, in Galileo-related reviews and technical evaluation boards:

• Ensure the success of Galileo system qualification reviews by supporting the preparation the review, the review of the DP delivered by Industry and the associated discussions in the corresponding panel/board meetings.
• Support other qualification reviews (segment/external/element) as required.

Profile

• Master’s degree or equivalent qualification in Engineering, physics or Computer science.
• At least 4 years of relevant work experience.
• ESA Space systems development, verification and review processes and standards.
• Knowledge and experience of Galileo navigation system, and in particular of the Galileo Public Regulated Service (PRS) including its operations, architecture and implementation.
• Knowledge and experience in system engineering and verification of complex, large-scale secure systems.
• Design, development, deployment and testing of complex secure systems.
• Management and monitoring of industrial activities (interfaces with industry, reviews, etc.).
• Autonomy in writing minutes of meetings, technical notes, specifications and reports in English.
• Organization, good practical sense, being able to work effectively in a team and be able to autonomously take decision in his field of responsibility.
• Good knowledge of MS office tools.
• Availability and willingness to travel for missions inside or outside Europe.
• Excellent interpersonal skills are needed, together with a high degree organizational and communication abilities.
• Comfortable with working in a diverse and multinational team environment.
• Candidates must be eligible for security clearance from their national security administration.
• Fluent in English; knowledge of another ESA member-state language is an asset.
• Candidates must be eligible to work in the EU.