Your Tasks - Elaborate and model the performance of an electro-optical instrument considering of all possible contributors like, for example, optical design and detector characteristics or structural stability. - Ensure proper flow-down of customer requirements to technical requirements and/or subsystem requirements. Allocate technical budgets accordingly. - Development and analysis of instrument calibration concepts for on-ground and in-flight - Regularly update the system’s technical budgets during the program lifetime. - Perform or support instrument design trade-offs, identify and analyze mitigation options. - Define work packages together with different internal specialists and with external sub-contractors in a multidiscipline engineering team (Optics, Mechanics, Thermal, Structure). - Align the activities with the systems engineering work plan. - Review of sub-contractor analysis results (e.g. analytical models) and documents, like technical proposals, technical reports, or specifications. - Monitor the compliance to customer requirements. - Support the definition of control loops (e.g. thermal control: development of plant models incl. system identification, physical modelling, parameter estimation). - Support technical discussion with customer or supplier. Your Qualifications - University / polytechnic degree or PhD in in scientific or engineering subject (e.g., Physics, Aerospace Engineering) - Proficient in at least one of the following categories: - technical and physical optics, spectrometry and optical instruments - hands-on experience in the application of control theory and detailed knowledge concerning the definition of control systems - mathematical modelling and simulation - Experience with the programming languages Python and/or MATLAB and data processing. - Strong analytical skills, good communication and negotiation skills - Fluent proficiency in spoken and written English
Systems Engineer – Instrument Performance & Calibration (m/f/d) (Ingenieur/in - Luft- und Raumfahrttechnik)