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Telespazio Belgium can count on almost 40 years of experience in the field of Space Operations Service & Engineering activities.

We provide a significant contribution to the most major Space programs of the European Space Agency. Our core business is to work on the ground to build bridges into space, contributing to the success of ambitious missions.

The European Space Agency is our biggest client and we provide highly qualified employees to many sites of ESA but mainly for ESTEC in the Netherlands, and we provide a permanent contract with great benefits, a good salary, a relocation package along with genuine support to our employees.

On behalf of the European Space Agency, we are looking for a highly skilled Digital Equipment Engineer for RF Payloads to work in ESTEC, in the Netherlands.

What is expected from you:

• Contribution to the engineering work in the field of Digital equipment for RF payloads in support to ESA Projects, which includes:
• Supporting Staff in interfacing with Projects (and Studies). This includes:
• Providing expertise to support Projects (and Studies) throughout all project phases;
• Performing and documenting relevant analyses;
• Supporting the implementation of industrial project activities;
• Supporting and performing “in-house” design and trade-offs to support projectspecific technology developments.
• Supporting the implementation of industrial project activities;
• Carrying out computer simulations at system/subsystem level for the assessment of end-to-end Digital Equipment performance;
• Providing hands-on Digital Equipment modelling and testing support to projects, which will require proper coordination with the corresponding Laboratory Service.
• Supporting and contributing to meetings and reviews.
• Identification, implementation, validation, and operation of the relevant section tools, which includes:
• Providing expertise related to the software, hardware and data related tools;
• Participating in the development, validation, deployment and maintenance of relevant internal software tools and databases;
• Liaising with Technical Responsible for the proper configuration of software / hardware either developed in the service itself or originating from external activities.
• Operating the tools for the purpose of supporting Projects or ESA R&D activities.
• Support to Staff in the implementation of R&D activities in the technical domain. This includes:
• Providing technical inputs to the definition of technology roadmaps and contributing to relevant reviews and meetings;
• Monitoring applicable scientific and technological trends and maintaining stateof-the-art expertise in Digital equipment for RF Payloads;
• Providing inputs to documentation and meetings / reviews, conducting relevant technical analyses;
• Contribute to the definition of technical requirements and statements of work for the tasks to be performed by industry from early conceptual studies to full hardware development;
• Reviewing output from industry / academia and providing inputs to the ESA Technical Officer. This includes – when relevant – the conduction of software or of hardware tests in a Divisional laboratory, which will require proper coordination with the corresponding Laboratory Service;
• Supporting the ESA Technical representative in meeting with industry / academia;
• When required, organizing ad hoc meetings with industry / academia and reporting on their outcome to the ESA Technical representative.
• Architectural definition, design, development, characterisation and performance evaluation of RF Payloads/Instruments Control, Data and (Digital) Signal Processing Units (e.g. Telecom digital transparent and regenerative processors, digital signal generation and signal processing units, etc.),
• Design, development and performance evaluation and characterisation of RF Payload
• Data and Signal Processing techniques, including:
• Payload Signal and Data Processing, including advanced techniques (e.g. Digital beamforming, Machine Learning/Al techniques, etc.) supporting instrument operation and operative modes.
• Payload Data Compression,
• Payload Data Encryption,
• RF Payloads/Instruments related ASICs and Devices (e.g. FPGA, DSP) specification/ validation, in close cooperation with other divisions/sections of the Agency.

What you offer:

• University Master’s degree in Telecommunications, Electronics or Computer Science Engineering.
• Several years of experience in the design and development of Digital Equipment for Radio Frequency Payloads, including usage of engineering tools,
• Very good knowledge of Digital Processing Systems, including Digital processing architectures for RF systems (including “Software Defined Radio”), main functional blocks and internal/external interfaces (including RF), together with associated technologies and components,
• Very good knowledge of Digital Processing Technologies and Input/Output Interfaces, including High-speed data conversion (A/D and D/A) techniques and technology; digital processing devices such as DSPs, FPGAs, CPUs, Digital input/output interfaces and technologies, networks and protocols.
• Very good knowledge of Signal and Data Processing Algorithms and Techniques, including high-speed digital signal processing,
• Very good knowledge of Digital System Modelling, Simulation and Programming, software development languages,
• Experience on Design and development of digital processing architectures for RF systems, and definition of key parameters and budgets in the context of different RF system application domains (e.g. RF payloads for Earth Observation, Telecom, Navigation or other relevant ones), is considered an asset,
• Experience on Design and validation of algorithms and techniques such as modulation, digital beamforming, machine learning/artificial intelligence, forward error correction, filters, data compression and cryptography, etc., is considered an asset,
• Experience on evaluation of algorithms and techniques figures of merit, such as implementation complexity and performance, and optimizations to fit the system constraints, such as power, latency, etc., is considered an asset.
• Experience on Digital System Design, including ASIC/FPGA/IP Core usage and development & verification processes and languages (such as VHDL, Verilog), is considered an asset.

What we offer

• A competitive salary
  
• 30 days of paid annual leave, plus the days ESTEC is closed including public holidays (~12 days) based on a 40-hour working week;
• Hybrid working scheme (3 days in the office and 2 days remote in the Netherlands)
• Flexible working hours; you are in charge of your own agenda respecting core working hours
• Fully paid collective extensive health insurance scheme;
• A good pension scheme with no personal contribution;
• A career development (Coursera membership + training budget);
• Travel allowance;
• Extensive relocation package

Where:

You will be working within ESTEC, the European Space Agency’s offices in the Netherlands as a contractor for Telespazio Belgium. We don’t expect the employees to be on-site full time however you will still have to relocate to the Netherlands for this position.

Check out the ESTEC site here: esa.int/About_Us/ESTEC

When

Deadline to apply: ASAP

Please note that interviews will be held either via skype, webex, other digital platforms or onsite in ESTEC

We look forward to receiving your application for this position!