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Earth Observation System Engineer
2020-10-06 11:09:58| Space-careers.com Jobs RSS
Summary An opportunity for an experienced Earth Observation mission or Systems engineer, to work on customer premises for Telespazio VEGA UK. Objective To provide system engineering support to the Future Missions and Instruments Division for Mission and System Studies, with ESA Earth Observation section. Responsibilities Duties The successful candidate will be expected to Support the definition and monitoring of activities for the preparation of future ESA Earth Observation EO missions, in particular for Copernicus Sentinels, new Earth ExplorerEarth Watch missions, Opportunity Missions, Fsats and Scout missions and operational meteorology missions Provide system engineering support to InCubed missions Review Technical Notes and actively participate to progress meetings and reviews related to EO future mission and system studies Support elaboration of SoWs, system requirements documents SRD and other applicable and reference documents for future mission and system studies Contributing to ensure the technical coherency of the system design of future EO missions, including, as needed, functional analysis and design, overall system concept, system level budgets, system performance analyses, definition of spacecraft andor payload subsystems and related data processing, and interfaces between payloadplatform and launcher and ground segment Perform internal studies for future EO missions, in particular to assess the results of external activities or to prepare the formulation of new mission concepts, including preliminary sizing of platformpayload, first estimation of the system engineering and performance budgets, with a focus on the space segment and its interfaces with the launcher and the ground segment Perform internal studies to evaluate the complementarity between ESA EO future missions and other missions existing or planned by other space organizations, including mission analysis and assessment of potential synergy or overlap of mission capabilities. Support work in the area of modelling of system or subsystem aspects for endtoend performance simulation and system engineering tools for future EO missions. Qualifications Experience MSc, or equivalent qualification, in a relevant technical or scientific discipline Essential Skills At least 4 years of relevant work experience, covering Good general knowledge of ESA Earth Observation missions Strong and demonstrated background in space system engineering, mission analysis and small platform sizing, in particular for Earth Observation missions Experience in space projects, preferably in the Earth Observation field andor in preparatory activities phase 0 and A Experience with simulation tools Matlab or Python, MS Excel with VBA Earth Observation remote sensing techniques Qualities Teamwork Good communication and technical writing skills with capabilities to synthesize different sources of information Good organization skills Methodical and proactive, with initiative and capability to work autonomously Problemsolving and creativityoriented attitude Proficiency in written and spoken English
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