Ground Segment Antenna Engineer
3 days ago
Tres Cantos
Overview As a Ground Segment Antenna Engineer you join a multidisciplinary team to design and evolve ground segment infrastructures for satellite missions. You will help define robust antenna subsystems and contribute to mission-critical communications between space and ground assets. Your work supports institutional and commercial customers, including Galileo, with a focus on performance, reliability, and technical feasibility. This role offers hands-on engineering with cross-functional collaboration and opportunities to influence future ground station architectures. Compensaciones / Beneficios • Hybrid working model, • Teleworking up to 4 weeks/year, • Flexible start/finish times, • Intensive hours Fridays and summer, • Personalized career plan, • Relocation package Responsabilidades, • Technical definition and analysis of ground antenna systems for satellite communications (TT&C, payload data, feeder links)., • Design and evolution of ground segment architectures with emphasis on antenna subsystems., • Performance analysis including link budgets, RF chains, pointing accuracy, tracking performance, availability, and redundancy., • Definition and review of technical requirements related to antenna systems., • Engineering documentation preparation and maintenance (design documents, ICDs, technical notes, analysis reports)., • Technical support during procurement, integration, and validation of antenna systems., • Participation in technical reviews with customers and subcontractors., • Contribution to technical proposals and feasibility studies., • Collaboration with other engineering domains (ground segment subsystems, networks, cybersecurity, deployment). Requisitos principales, • Hands-on experience in design, specification, integration, or validation of ground station antennas., • Solid understanding of RF fundamentals and satellite communications., • Knowledge of ground station antenna architectures (reflector antennas, tracking systems, radomes, RF chains)., • Knowledge of antenna control units and tracking systems., • Experience in space sector projects (institutional or commercial)., • Familiarity with relevant standards (e.g., ECSS) and the space project lifecycle., • Knowledge of systems engineering and requirements management., • Good level of English., • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills., • strong analytical thinking, • problem-solving, • team collaboration, • RF fundamentals, • satellite communications, • ground station antenna architectures