Platform Engineer - IRIS2

Hispasat, as part of the SpaceRISE consortium, is responsible for the technical implementation and ensuring the success of the IRIS² project, leveraging its extensive experience in satellite communications. This collaboration is essential to provide secure and reliable high-performance communication solutions to the European Union and its member states.

To be part of this project, we are looking for a Platform Engineer whose responsibilities will be as follows:

Activities:

* Support to the definition, design, development and oversight of a telecommunications satellite constellation program in the area of Satellite Platform Engineering.
* Support to the definition, design and development of platform subsystems based on satellite technology


Responsibilities:

* Preparation of the Satellite and Launch Services Request for Proposal (RFP) and the associated technical evaluation
* Preparation and participation in all platform unit design, manufacturing and testing review meetings
* Preparation and participation in all platform subsystem design, manufacturing and testing review meetings
* Preparation and participation in all system design, manufacturing and testing review meetings
* Preparation and participation in the launch campaign
* Preparation and participation in the LEOP
* Preparation and participation in the In Orbit Test Campaign
* Support to the on-orbit satellite health status assessment and coordination of anomaly investigation
* Preparation of weekly reports of activities

* Master’s degree in Aerospace Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Physics or similar
* 10-year experience on a similar position with hands-on experience or exposure in either platform procurement, platform equipment manufacturing or platform in-orbit operations in GEO and/or LEO
* Experience in managing large EU and ESA projects
* Programming languages skills (Python, Matlab or similar).


Knowledge in geostationary and LEO satellite system architectures and functional operations, covering several of the following aspects:

* Demonstrated knowledge in the area of platform equipment design, manufacturing, assembly, integration and testing at unit, subsystem and satellite levels
* Demonstrated knowledge of satellite system related activities (e.g.