Ground Station Systems Engineer (in Germany)

EUMETSAT is Europe's meteorological satellite agency, operating a fleet of geostationary (GEO) and low earth orbit (LEO) satellites delivering weather and climate-related satellite data and images to our users worldwide; helping protect lives, property and industries.

APPLICATIONS MUST BE SUBMITTED IN ENGLISH. WE WILL BE UNABLE TO CONSIDER APPLICATIONS SUBMITTED IN OTHER LANGUAGES.

EUMETSAT is an international organisation employing staff from across all 30 member states and this role is being advertised on multiple international job boards, but please note that this role would be based in Darmstadt, Germany and would require international applicants to relocate if successful.

More about us

EUMETSAT's role is to establish and operate meteorological satellites to monitor the weather and climate from space - 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. This information is supplied to the National Meteorological Services of the organisation's Member and Cooperating States in Europe, as well as other users worldwide.

EUMETSAT also operates several Copernicus missions on behalf of the European Union and provide data services to the Copernicus marine and atmospheric services and their users.

As an intergovernmental European Organisation, EUMETSAT can recruit nationals only from the 30 Member States (Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey and the United Kingdom).

Requirements

Qualifications:

University Degree or equivalent in Telecommunications or Electronic Engineering.

Skills and Experience:

• Proven experience in ground stations engineering following well established engineering processes covering the full development lifecycle, and relevant technical standards (e.g. ECSS, CCSDS);
• Expertise in RF (L/S/X/K-Band), Receiver/Baseband, modulation/demodulation of Telemetry, Telecommand and Ranging (TT&C) and Payload/Instrument data;
• Conversant with ECSS standards and CCSDS recommendations for packet TM/TC, Ranging, RF coding and modulation and CCSDS Service Level Extension (SLE) services
• Competence and in-field proven experience in the area of Ground Stations Verification &Validation (V&V) activities;
• Experience in the coordination of international teams;
• Sound experience of project management and international procurements;
• Relevant experience in ground stations maintenance will be considered an advantage.

Languages:

• • Candidates must be able to work effectively in English and have some knowledge of French.