EUMETSAT is an intergovernmental organisation based in Darmstadt, Germany. Our vision is to be the leading user-driven operational agency in Europe and a trusted global partner for weather and Earth system monitoring from space. All data provided by our state-of-the-art satellites systems are making a tangible difference in people’s lives and contribute to the thriving European economy.

Ground Stations are critical assets to the operations of EUMETSAT’s Low-Earth-Orbiting (LEO) and Geostationary (GEO) Earth observation missions. With a multi-mission approach, the successful candidate will take on software engineering responsibilities for the development and upgrades of our satellite ground stations.

Close collaboration with our international Ground Stations operations and engineering teams will offer the selected candidate enriching experience of seeing the full lifecycle of the systems under her/his responsibility.

Duties

• Manage engineering activities to develop and evolve ground segment systems in the area of ground stations software:
  • Definition of concepts, analyses and trade-offs;
  • Definition, engineering, and management of technical requirements in accordance;
  • Support and follow-up on design and development;
  • Supervision and support for integration, validation and verification activities;
  • Support anomaly review boards, configuration, and quality management.

• Manage industrial development and/or maintenance contracts;
• Support the definition and implementation of a long-term strategy for cost effective maintenance of Ground Stations software applications, such as local/remote Monitoring & Control (M&C) systems;
• Certain activities will require travelling within Europe and/or going on business trips to remote sites where ground station are located such as Svalbard (Norway) and Turkey. These business trips could have durations of several weeks.

Skills and Experience

• Proven experience in software development, testing, and/or long-term maintenance of complex ground systems for space missions, preferably for ground stations software such as M&C applications;
• Expertise in software engineering (e.g. DevOps), system engineering and/or design standards (e.g. ECSS standards);
• Good interpersonal and communications skills, a positive team spirit and a strong service orientation;
• Strengths in synthesising and presenting complex problems and solutions;
• In addition, experience in the following areas would be an advantage:
• Database applications and related configurations control mechanisms;
• Remote M&C applications for ground stations (TT&C and payload data reception stations).