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End-to-End Simulations Engineer / E-ENG-02-06

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Job Introduction

Job Introduction

Serco’s space heritage over the last 40 years has placed us in the Space News Top 50 Space Industry Manufacturing and Services Companies. Our European operations have ca. 2,000 employees delivering critical services to public institutions such as the European Commission, EUMETSAT or the European Space Agency.

One of our main major customers in the continental Europe is the European Space Agency, with Serco being the largest on-site service provider.

For 2017 we anticipate further growth in our operations in ESTEC and as a result we are pleased to announce the following opportunity.

Role Responsibility

  • Provide of end-to-end simulations support to EOP-SF for Mission and System Studies,
  • Support the definition and development of the End-to-End (E2E) Mission Performance Simulators for future EO missions
    • Support the definition and development of the End-to-End (E2E) Mission Performance Simulators for future EO missions, including elaboration of SOW and technical specifications, participation to progress meetings and reviews
    • Contributing to ensure the technical coherency and completeness of the simulation of the observation system, including, as needed, functional analysis, system level budgeting, system performance analyses, modelling of spacecraft and/or payload subsystems and related data processing to meet system and mission requirements.
    • Install and use those E2E simulators on the EOP-SF IT infrastructure for mission performance evaluation and system trade-offs for future EO missions,
    • Provide feedback from end-to-end mission performance simulations and optimisations to the spacecraft and mission design,
    • Ensure a consistent evolution and maintenance of the E2E simulators and a proper configuration and storage of the relevant input/output data sets.
    • Initiate and support work in the area of modelling of system or sub-system aspects (spacecraft, payload, ground processing) for E2E simulators and System Engineering Tools
    • Support the development of generic building blocks and modules, and aim at maximum synergy and reuse of those building blocks and modules from one E2E simulator to the next making use of ESA OpenSF infrastructure.
  • Contributing to ensure the technical coherency and completeness of the simulation of the observation system, including, as needed, functional analysis, system level budgeting, system performance analyses, modelling of spacecraft and/or payload subsystems and related data processing to meet system and mission requirements
  • Install and use those E2E simulators on the EOP-SF IT infrastructure for mission performance evaluation and system trade-offs for future EO missions,
  • Ensure a consistent evolution and maintenance of the E2E simulators and a proper configuration and storage of the relevant input/output data sets.
  • Initiate and support work in the area of modelling of system or sub-system aspects (spacecraft, payload, ground processing) for E2E simulators and System Engineering Tools
  • Support the development of generic building blocks and modules, and aim at maximum synergy and reuse of those building blocks and modules from one E2E simulator to the next making use of ESA OpenSF infrastructure
  • Participate to the development of System Engineering Tools for preliminary analysis and sizing of future EO missions
  • Use the above System Engineering Tools for system trade-offs, preliminary sizing and performance evaluation of future EO missions
    • Participate to the development of new System Engineering Tools for preliminary analysis and sizing of future EO missions, ensuring a coherent and representative modelling of each element of the system (satellite/platform and its subsystems, payload, ground processing) contributing to the system performance
    • Participate to the evolution and maintenance of the existing System Engineering Tools used in EOP-SF
    • Use the above System Engineering Tools for system trade-offs, preliminary sizing and performance evaluation of future EO missions
    • Provide feedback from mission optimisation to the spacecraft and mission design

Successful Candidate

  • Engineering PhD or Master Degree;
  • General knowledge of ESA Earth Observation missions;
  • Background in space system engineering;
  • Experience in mission analysis;
  • Good communication and technical writing skills;
  • Good organisation skills;
  • Capability to coordinate a large amount of inputs, synthesise, summarise and take conclusions;
  • A proactive approach, with initiative and capability to work independently;
  • Problem-solving oriented attitude;
  • Solid background on IT and computer programming;
  • MATLAB, Python, STK, MS Excel and CAD software knowledge is an asset;
  • Experience on modelling and simulation of observing system characteristics (spacecraft, payload, ground processing, orbit…) and how they impact mission data quality and relate to system requirements and scientific goals is desirable;
  • Versatility to adapt to the specificities of each mission considering the wide range of possible EO observation techniques (e.g. optical/microwave, passive/active, imager/sounder, nadir/limb observation…) and platforms (e.g. mini/micro/nanosatellite), orbits (SunSynchronous or drifting, LEO/MEO/GEO/HEO).

Package Description

Full details on application

Relocation assistance provided  (if applicable).

About the Company

The Serco Group is a FTSE 250 corporation with over 70,000 staff in 30 countries. Our strategy is to be a superb provider of public services, by being the best managed business in our sector. We are a focused business to government (B2G) business, specialising across five sectors: Defence, Justice & Immigration, Transport, Health and Citizen Services.

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