System Engineer - S3-NG OPT (m/f/d) Ref. No. 26-84459
On-siteDarmstadt, Hesse, Germany
Job Summary
Support the definition, consolidation, and maintenance of System and Ground Segment requirements, deriving and allocating them across subsystem levels while ensuring traceability throughout the development lifecycle. Contribute to system architecture and design activities by defining interfaces between the System, Ground Segment, and Ground Segment Elements, preparing Interface Control Documents, and maintaining traceability between requirements and design. Perform technical analyses, contribute to trade-off studies, and prepare System Engineering models using Model-Based Systems Engineering to support architecture development and formal documentation reviews. This full-time position is based at EUMETSAT's premises in Darmstadt, Germany, with a planned start date in early 2027. You will collaborate directly with EUMETSAT engineers, international partners, and suppliers to shape the architecture of the next generation of Sentinel-3 during its early design phase.
Required Qualifications
- Excellent written and spoken English
- Degree in Systems Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science or a related engineering discipline
- At least 3 years of professional experience in Systems Engineering, preferably within the space or Earth Observation domain
- Proven experience with requirements engineering, including definition, derivation, allocation and traceability
- Experience with system architecture and interface definition
- Experience preparing and reviewing technical specifications and engineering documentation
- Knowledge of space and Ground Segment engineering processes and system/software lifecycles, ideally ECSS
- Experience with formal engineering reviews such as SRR, PDR and CDR
- Experience with interface management and ICDs
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Ability to work across multiple technical disciplines and communicate effectively with engineers, project teams, suppliers and external partners
Desired Qualifications
- Experience with Ground Segment engineering
- Hands-on experience with MBSE / SysML
- Experience with Enterprise Architect
- Experience with DOORS
- Experience preparing and managing ICDs, DDFs and DJFs
- Experience with technical budgets, performance and sizing analyses
- Experience with processing hardware/platform selection and infrastructure sizing
- Experience with Earth Observation missions
- Experience with IV&V and verification planning
- Familiarity with satellite data-processing and Ground Segment architectures
- Knowledge of CCSDS standards
- Experience with Python/Bash or other engineering scripting languages
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