Sapienza Consulting is recruiting an RF Payload Engineer to work onsite at ESA-ESTEC in the Payload Engineering Section.
Responsibilities
Contribute to internal R&D activities for the design, modelling, architectural trade-off and performance assessment of advanced RF telecommunication and/or navigation payloads, with main emphasis on payloads based on digital signal processing and active antennas.
Carry out computer simulations at system/subsystem level for the assessment of end-to-end payload performance.
Perform technical management of R&D activities with industry/institutions in the field of advanced payload concepts and sub-systems/equipment development.
Provide expert RF payload technical support to ESA projects and programmes.
Contribute to the generation and promotion of innovative ideas for future satellite missions in the field of RF payloads for telecommunications and/or navigation, including the definition of ESA R&D programmes.
Define technical requirements and statements of work for R&D activities to be performed by industry, from early conceptual studies to full hardware development.
Contribute to the development/usage of section related laboratory facilities and analysis/simulation tools.
Maintain state-of-the-art expertise by monitoring the RF/Microwave systems technological trends and applying them in the day-to-day tasks.
Profile
Master’s degree in Telecommunications, Microwave or RF Electronics Engineering.
At least 4 years of relevant work experience.
Good background and several years of working experience on design, development and testing of Radio Frequency payloads in the domain of telecommunications and/or navigation.
Knowledge of end-to-end payload performance and signal quality analysis.
Experience on payloads based on digital signal processing.
Knowledge of state-of-the-art RF analogue and (high-speed) digital signal processing techniques and technologies.
Very good knowledge of software and simulation tools and programming (Matlab/Simulink, ADS/VSS, C/C++, Python).
Promoting cooperation and team-working, problem solving.
Fluent in English; knowledge of another ESA member-state language is an asset.
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