Ground Stations & Telecommunication Engineer (d/m/w)

Job Description: At Airbus, our purpose is to improve life on Earth and beyond through our cutting-edge space technologies. With every technological breakthrough, we bring people closer together, we navigate new frontiers and we discover new and unexplored destinations. And we don't just take innovations to space - our space solutions and projects help solve global challenges on Earth.

We are looking for a candidate to become our new Satellite Ground Engineer (d/m/f) with focus on ground stations and telecommunication for national space projects within Airbus Space Engineering, located in Friedrichshafen, Germany. You will be a member of the System Architecture & Lead Engineering Team with great team-players aside you.

You will join a diverse and empowered team working on Space & Ground Systems Architectures, Secure Space Solutions, Systems Engineering, Development, Operations, Data Processing, and Performance Modelling. You will benefit from training opportunities and new ways of working (home office, digital tools, flexible working hours etc.). You will find great leadership teams whose priority is to support your development, foster team spirit and give meaning to your activity in a global Airbus environment. On top, thanks to the high diversity of jobs and competencies that we can offer in our domain, you will have opportunities to grow & prepare your longer-term development plan. We are looking for diverse people to design creative ground system solutions.

As a Development Engineer (d/m/f) for ground systems with focus on ground stations and telecommunication, you will be part of a team based in Friedrichshafen supporting our integrated national space mission project teams. Your tasks include the specification of state-of-the-art transmission paths and protocols for communication between the space and ground segments. You develop innovative solutions for direct links between satellites and ground stations as well as for indirect communication via relay satellites. Additionally, you design the ground network connections for efficient data transfer from the ground stations to the ground segment. Beside the operational activities, you will contribute to our transformation plan that has the vision to become national champion for high-performance Ground-Space Mission Solutions. You will work on concrete operational tasks while capitalising return of experience for future secure space solution improvement.

Join our empowered and engaged teams!

Tasks & Accountabilities

• Contribute to the definition and design of Satellite Ground Systems: use of state-of-the-art methods (Scrum, Model-Based Systems Engineering)
• Contribute to the requirements analysis and architecture definition for Ground Segments regarding telecommunication and ground stations
• Design trade-offs and interface management: evaluation and optimization of design decisions, identification of internal and external interfaces, creation of interface documents (ICD)
• Specification of hardware and software elements as well as redundancy concepts
• Calculation of link budgets
• Support in system development, AIV (assembly, integration, verification)
• Contributions to proposals and studies as well as research and development activities
• Technical coordination of subcontractors and partners
• Interdisciplinary collaboration: Space Segment Engineering, Performance Engineering, Operations Engineering

Qualification:

• completed university degree in Aerospace Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Communications (Network), or equivalent qualification
• Technical expertise: knowledge and practical experience in processes and standards of the space industry (e.g., ECSS, CCSDS), experience in systems engineering as well as with corresponding methods and tools
• Adaptability and willingness to learn: Interest and ability to quickly familiarize oneself with new technologies
• Working experien