Senior Flight Software Engineer

Telespazio Belgium can count on almost 40 years of experience in the field of Space Operations Service & Engineering activities.

We provide a significant contribution to the most major Space programs of the European Space Agency. Our core business is to work on the ground to build bridges into space, contributing to the success of ambitious missions.

The European Space Agency is our biggest client and we provide highly qualified employees to many sites of ESA but mainly for ESTEC in the Netherlands, and we provide a permanent contract with great benefits, a good salary, a relocation package along with genuine support to our employees.

On behalf of the European Space Agency, we will be soon looking for 2 highly skilled Senior Flight Software Engineers to work in ESTEC, in the Netherlands.

Candidates must be eligible for a security personal clearance from an EU Member State national security administration

What Is Expected From You

• The candidate will work as part of ESA project teams, together with satellite engineering managers and instrument managers, providing specialist technical support for real-time embedded software systems, including flight software and the corresponding development and validation facilities.
• The candidate will provide technical monitoring of software development contracts, including verification of industrial outputs, reviews and acceptance.
• The candidate will participate in the evaluation of industrial proposals and in project reviews.
  
  

Technology Activities

• The candidate will participate in defining and implementing the technology programmes falling within the Section’s area of expertise, in particular as regards software architectures, verification and validation and modern engineering methods/tools to improve the development and qualification processes for embedded software.
• The candidate will contribute to the dissemination of the results of activities performed and knowledge transfer across the Agency.
  
  

Standardisation Activities

• The candidate will be contribute to standardisation activities in the software systems domain.
  
  

What You Offer

• A Master’s degree in computer science, electronics engineering, space systems engineering, or related discipline is required.
• Experience in real-time embedded software
• Knowledge of all phases of the software development lifecycle
• Experience in software development projects
• Spacecraft systems knowledge
• Project support experience in a relevant domain
• Experience in the management and monitoring of industrial activities, including participation in reviews
• Experience with Space Engineering Standards and their preparation and implementation
• A good understanding of modern software engineering methods and tools, R&D trends and the industrial landscape
• Strong experience in real-time embedded software (e.g. SPARC LEON processors, ARM, RISC-V; multicore platforms, IMA/TSP, RTOS, etc.)
• Knowledge of all phases of the software development lifecycle (e.g. requirements engineering, design, coding, V&V, functional validations at system level, support to operations, agile methodology, etc.)
• Strong experience in software development projects (e.g. C/C++, Ada & assembly programming languages; software development environments, software validation facilities and ground testbeds & support equipment)
• Spacecraft systems knowledge, and experience with software development for satellite platforms and/or payloads (e.g. experience with avionics subsystems and integrated flight hardware)
• Proven project support experience (i.e. leading software activities in a project team), including participation in reviews (i.e. assessment of software-related project status at particular project milestones)
• Proven experience in the management and monitoring of industrial activities (e.g. elaboration of statements of work, user specifications, proposal evaluation, supplier interactions, monitoring progress and quality, acceptance, etc.)
• Proven experience with space software engineering standards and their application, or equivalent standards in other domains
• A good understanding of modern software engineering methods and tools, R&D trends and the industrial landscape.
  
  

What We Offer

• A competitive salary
• 30 days of paid annual leave, plus the days ESTEC is closed including public holidays (~12 days) based on a 40-hour working week;
• Hybrid working scheme (3 days in the office and 2 days remote in the Netherlands)
• Flexible working hours; you are in charge of your own agenda respecting core working hours
• Fully paid collective extensive health insurance scheme;
• A good pension scheme with no personal contribution;
• A career development (Coursera membership + training budget);
• Travel allowance;
• Extensive relocation package
  
  

Where

You will be working within ESTEC, the European Space Agency’s offices in the Netherlands as a contractor for Telespazio Belgium. We don’t expect the employees to be on-site full time however you will still have to relocate to the Netherlands for this position.

Check out the ESTEC site here: esa.int/About_Us/ESTEC

When

Deadline to apply: Opening Soon!

Please note that interviews will be held either via skype, webex, other digital platforms or onsite in ESTEC

We look forward to receiving your application for this position!