Spacecraft Missions Engineer

Honeywell
Edinburgh
7 months ago
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Responsibilities

· Interface with design engineers and physicists in designing systems such as atmospheric, ocean and cryosphere monitoring, or communications, optics and RF architectures and systems design and algorithm development.

· Make recommendations for business development managers on real-world systems that could be created for use in commercial products or data products.

· Perform requirements and what-if type analysis and decomposition to determine and derive technical requirements for/from customers and ensure the compliance of the system and its products.

· Designing test systems, developing system, software algorithms, to verify and check systems development processes.

· Responsibility for subsystem/component level design and architectural decisions, and defining, supervising, and evaluating trade-off studies justifying decisions.

Key Skills:

·Master’s degree in Physics or Engineering Physics with strong mathematical and computing skills. Knowledge of spacecraft missions, communications systems, orbital mechanics and relevant space environment effects on systems is required. Working understanding of electronics and optical systems is an assent.

· 10+ years of experience in a hands-on, instrument design and build environment, as a systems architect or designer, preferably involving the design of systems, with hands-on debugging and testing experience of payloads.

· Expert knowledge in one or more of the following, with advanced knowledge in 3 or more of: RF design, communications systems, sensing and electronics (analog or digital), the space environment, vacuum effects, optical systems, quantum devices, lasers.

· Software skills for analysis using engineering and mathematical commercial tools (MATLAB, Ansys, Zeemax , as well as the ability to write custom analysis code in any language of your preference (C++, Python or others).

· Knowledge of space instrument engineering budgets, requirements generation, space mission design, systems approach to engineering

Our offer

·A culture that fosters inclusion, diversity, and innovation in an international work environment

·Market specific training and ongoing personal development.

·Experienced leaders to support your professional development

Equal opportunity statement

Join us nowand be part of a global team of thinkers, innovators, dreamers, and doers who make the things that make the future!

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