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RF Payload Engineer (ESA-ESTEC)

Noordwijk, The Netherlands, Sapienza Consulting [AHRW-603602]

Field(s) of expertise
Electronics Engineering Telecommunications Engineering
Job type
Permanent
Education
Master
Deadline
Closed

About this job

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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