Requirements: English
Company: Aistech Space
Region: Barcelona , Catalonia
Company Description:
Aistech Space is focused on generating affordable, recurrent, high resolution thermal imagery of the planet to provide a new perspective of Earths changing resources. 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 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.
This new position offers the opportunity to coordinate the interfacing between our ENABLER payloads with the new satellite platforms, as well as preparing the mission for daily operations in conjunction with the Ground and User infrastructure teams.
In this role, you are expected to deal with the different Aistech departments, suppliers, clients, R&D proposals, bureaucratic paperwork, launch plans and a long list of activities to push the company forward.
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.
The daily tasks to be achieved in this position are:
- Develop comprehensive understanding of our satellites and payloads.
- Be part of the Space Infrastructure department in different phases: design and analysis, integration and testing.
- Be able to research for new technologies, create prototyping ideas, be proactive in pushing new technology, operational ideas, calibration methods, system concepts, etc.
- Be hands-on developing technical calculations to prepare payload budgets focused on optical systems KPIs such as SNR, NEtD, MTF, QE, etc.
- Be part of the leading team for the geometric and radiometric calibration campaigns in-ground ensuring the optimum optical performance of the ENABLER payload and follow-up with the validation performance campaign once in-orbit to ensure ENABLER data quality to the customer.
- 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.
Who you are:
Must:
- BSc/MSc in Aerospace, Optics, Electronics, Telecommunications or relevant degree.
- Open minded and extrovert, active learner and tolerant to criticism.
- Proven experience in a full cycle of a payload system in a satellite mission, from early phases until launch, preferably optical (VNIR, SWIR, etc)
- Strong knowledge of payload technologies and satellite subsystems: power, comms, AOCS, propulsion, EO payloads, etc.
- Strong knowledge of optical performance budgeting and optical geometric and radiometric calibration on-ground and in-orbit (as a plus).
- Experience leading a team technically to deliver a payload into orbit.
- Experience in hardware design, specially on Solidworks (or similar).
- Experience in thermal design and FEM analysis of a payload or satellite system.
- Experience in manufacturing, integrating or testing of prototype mechanical parts.
- Experience in payload and/or satellite verification engineering procedures / processes.
- Experience in ground support equipment for AIV testing (MGSE/EGSE).
- Experience in environmental testing of space hardware (vibration, acoustic, shock, thermal vacuum, EMC).
- Experience developing code in Python.
- Working knowledge of Linux.
- Working knowledge of Agile methodologies.
- Fluent in English.
Nice to have:
- Experience in any related projects with Thermal Payloads (MWIR, LWIR, etc).
- Experience in STK, GMAT, MATLAB/SIMULINK or similar simulation SW packag