XMM/INTEGRAL Instrument Operations Engineer

vor 2 Wochen

Frankfurt am Main, Hessen, Deutschland Telespazio Vollzeit 60.000 € - 90.000 € pro Jahr

Job Overview

Telespazio Germany is looking to complement their current Astronomical Missions Operations team with additional engineering support, delivering services to ESA/ESOC for the XMM & INTEGRAL missions.

Key Responsibilities

To take over existing operations instrument activities, currently provided by ESAC, and integrate them into the FCT at ESOC.

  • maintain the instrument procedures (develop, change & test)
  • maintain the instrument database (develop, change & test)
  • perform instrument anomaly recoveries
  • perform special operations support for instruments (eclipse operations, and development of automation activities to streamline the work of the Real-Time-Operations team
  • Support the calibration and mission planning teams at ESAC for operations
  • provision of On-call support
  • Execute real-time payload operations
  • Perform maintenance of instruments and observing modes
  • Perform maintenance of the instrument's onboard software
  • support the instrument health and performance monitoring
  • Execute offline instrument monitoring/trend analysis
  • interfacing with instrument Principal Investigators for operational issues

To be a proactive key team member to modernise existing operational activities while transferring them and introducing modern tools, to optimise the processes and operational efficiencies.

Essential Skills and Qualifications

  • University degree or equivalent education in Computer Science, Electronic Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or Telecommunications Engineering
  • Spacecraft Payload and Platform Subsystem Knowledge
  • Experience in activities applicable to spacecraft operations.
  • Fluency in English, both spoken and written.
  • Coordination with other service providers in operations (team player)
  • Familiarity with satellite control systems, in particular SCOS-2000
  • Experience in the generation of Flight Procedures and validation

Desirable Skills

  • Familiarity with the ESOC environment.
  • Familiarity with Satellite Instrument Operations
  • Some experience dealing with external interfaces, e.g. Project, Industry, PDGS, etc.
  • Familiarity with MOIS
  • Programming knowledge (Python, Bash)

Furthermore

CV in Europass format

Permission to work in the EU

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