Data engineer Jobs in Riedstadt

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).

To sustain and evolve its global network of operational ground stations across Europe and overseas, EUMETSAT is looking for a Ground Station Systems Engineer to join the Ground Stations Competence Area within the Satellite Ground Segment (SGS) Division.

In this hands-on role, you will lead the end-to-end evolution of EUMETSAT's ground stations, from system design and industrial coordination to testing and transition into operations. As successful candidate you will help shape future ground station architectures and drive harmonised, high-performance solutions across all EUMETSAT satellite systems.

What you'll be doing

As Ground Station Systems Engineer you will:

• Support to the development and upgrade of Ground Station systems and subsystems:
• Lead the specification and requirements definition activities;
• Contribute to the procurement and follow up contractors' development activities;
• Contribute to the definition, execution and follow up of the Verification &Validation (V&V) testing of new Ground Stations, or their evolutions;
• Support the definition and implementation of adequate transition plans from development to operations.
• Management service contract for ground stations engineering services;
• Coordinate a small team of engineers;
• Definition, coordination and execution of test scenarios aiming at verification of the end-to--end performance of ground stations;
• Lead baseline documentation updates and evolutions of ground stations;
• Support the Ground Stations Competence Area Manager in defining long term plans and roadmaps to harmonise Ground Station engineering maintenance and evolutions across all EUMETSAT satellite systems.

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.

What we offer

• Excellent salary, of up to Euro 8,000 NET (after income tax) based on skills and experience
• Flexible working time including additional flexi-leave
• Full medical coverage for employee and family
• Attractive pension
• 30 days of annual leave + 14.5 days public holidays
• Training and development support
• Relocation allowance and support (if applicable)