Space Hardware Design and Industrialisation Engineer (m/f/d)

Einleitung

Spaceopal is the prime service operations contractor for the European Galileo Satellite Navigation System and manages all Galileo Service Operations. The awarded European Commission (EC) contract to Spaceopal is more than just its satellites in space. Galileo Service Operations will provide high-quality positioning, navigation and timing services to users across the whole world as a civil-controlled service with guaranteed continuity of coverage.

Ihre Aufgaben

The Space Hardware Design and Industrialisation Engineer (hereafter abbreviated as “SHDIE”) is a role for a versatile and hands-on electronics engineer, requested to shape the hardware evolution and industrialisation of the Spaceopal innovative, state-of-the-art, real-time, onboard Orbit Determination and Time Synchronisation product for LEO satellites.

The position is an engineering role with substantial technical ownership and coordination responsibilities, rather than a personnel-management role.

Key Responsibilities

• Maintain and evolve the product’s electronic architecture, schematics, PCB design and electrical interfaces.
• Define and implement hardware updates, component changes and customer-driven interface adaptations.
• Review power, digital, analogue, RF and timing circuits and support hardware bring-up and troubleshooting.
• Assess the impact of design changes, component obsolescence and supply-chain constraints.
• Support component selection, derating, radiation considerations and EEE parts control in coordination with product assurance.
• Translate findings from verification, qualification and customer integration into robust design improvements
• Responsibilities related to the Industrialisation and production stage:
• Define and implement the industrialisation approach for repeatable production of flight units