Systems Engineer (remote)

Company Description: The company is based in Barcelona and aims to revolutionize remote sensing for environmental monitoring and resource management.

What you will do: Aistech Space is looking for a RF Payload Systems Engineer to be part of the Space Infrastructure Team in charge of designing, analysing, integrating and testing the new ENABLER payloads of our constellation.

The main responsibility for this job position is leading technically a heterogeneous team of engineers/scientists/sw developers to deliver the next ENABLER payloads into orbit and ensure the best geometric and radiometric performance of the ENABLER payloads producing high-quality imaging products.

You will also be responsible to follow internal standards and good practices in terms of project management, documentation and time management following an agile approach in your daily work and ensuring the team is also doing it.

Be part of the Space Infrastructure department in different phases: design and analysis, integration and testing.

Be hands-on developing technical calculations to prepare payload budgets focused on RF systems KPIs such as RF link budget, power budget.

Be able to research for new technologies, create prototyping ideas, be proactive in pushing new technology, operational ideas, calibration methods, system concepts, etc.

Be able of writing your own code when needed, follow internal standards, make it testable and document it properly.

Be part of the negotiation team, working closely with our partners and suppliers, understanding their proposal and adjusting it to our objectives.

Keep the best communication between internal teams: ground, user and operations infrastructure teams aligned with business development.

Recommend the adoption of new technologies, products, and services.

Write articles regarding different areas of interest to be published in our Aistech News magazine and on our website blog.

Actively engage in the development of documentation to build out the company procedures and specification manuals.

BSc/MSc in Aerospace, Electrical, Electronics, Telecommunications or relevant degree.

Proven experience in a full cycle of a payload system in a satellite mission, from early phases until launch, preferably RF (L, S, X, Ku, Ka-bands, or Telecommunication, SAR/SIGINT payloads).

Strong knowledge of RF performance budgeting.

FPGA, electronics, mechanical, software).

Basic experience in manufacturing, integrating or testing of prototype mechanical parts.

Basic experience in payload and/or satellite verification engineering procedures / processes.

Basic experience in ground support equipment for AIV testing (MGSE/EGSE).

Basic experience in environmental testing of space hardware (vibration, acoustic, shock, thermal vacuum, EMC).

Basic experience developing code in Python.

Working knowledge of Linux.

Working knowledge of Agile methodologies.

Fluent in English.

Experience in any related projects with RF Payloads (Telecommunication, SAR, SIGINT, etc).

Experience in STK, GMAT, MATLAB/SIMULINK or similar simulation SW packages.

Docker).

You will have an allocation of 6 days per month of remote working as per the internal policies of Aistech.

Enjoy a stable, permanent contract with a fast-growing company.

• Flexible working hours and hybrid work: 6 days/month from home.
• Daily fresh fruit and coffee to keep you energized.
• To be considered for this position, you must already have the legal right to work in the European Union. We are unable to provide visa sponsorship.

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