System Performance Lead Engineer (m/f/d)

Your Tasks

In this position, you will work in collaboration with architects and subsystem engineers on tasks like:

• Establish and maintain the mission performance budgets, including geometric performance
• Coordination of performance analyses at satellite level
• Flow-down of the performance requirements from system level to satellite and subsystem level
• Planning and implementation of the performance calibration
• Technical management of data processing and simulation chain at system level, including responsibility for processing aspects at satellite level
• Contributions to technical management of payloads and platform units relevant for system performances

Your Qualifications

• University degree in physics, aerospace engineering, remote sensing, or similar
• Professional experience of at least five years in one or more of the following categories Satellite design, in particular optical and/or radar missions
• Design & simulation of control systems, multibody systems, mechanisms or similar
• Geometric performances of Earth observation space missions
• Technical management of payload and/or unit development for space missions
• End-to-End Simulation of Earth-Observation and/or Science Data

• Experience in programming (MATLAB, Python)
• Self-managed, solution-oriented and pro-active working style
• Ability lead a work in a team and manage a work-package with contributions from different team members
• Working level proficiency in written and spoken English and German. Other language skills advantageous
• Willingness to work in defense & surveillance projects