ESA: EO Future Missions Optical Payload and Performance Engineer – Noordwijk

Description

Earth Observation (EO) Future Missions Optical Payload and Performance Engineer in the Optical Instruments Section, Future Missions and Instruments Division, Future Missions and Architecture Department, Directorate of Earth Observation Programmes.

Reporting to the Head of the Optical Instruments Section, you will be responsible for the end-to-end definition, engineering, technology breadboarding and pre-development of optical payload systems for EO future missions, both for research missions (e.g. Earth Explorers, Missions of Opportunity and Scout missions) and operational missions (e.g. Copernicus and meteorology missions).

The above payloads include EO multispectral imagers, imaging spectrometers and Fourier-Transform spectrometers, as well as active laser payloads for Earth surface and atmosphere sensing, covering the full wavelength range from ultraviolet to far infrared.

You will be involved in the study and pre-development of one or several of the payloads . You will be appointed as the person responsible for optical instruments in the preparation of EO future missions in Phase 0 or Phase A.