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Systems Performance Engineer

  • Kruibeke, Belgium

Join the Redwire Space team in developing and fielding end-to-end innovative mission critical space system solutions for next generation space architecture. At Redwire, you will work closely with customers from concept development through mission operations to ensure mission success.

Redwire Space is a global  manufacture of space infrastructure and innovation, our company are enabling international civil, commercial, and institutional space programs.

Redwire Space is positioning ourselves to become the international "One Stop Shop" for all thing Space Infrastructure, we are a dynamic and forward-thinking company, with our European Headquarters in Antwerp, Belgium.

The Redwire European space business is involved in a wide variety of exciting projects and programmes, from developing and building Satellites, Docking Mechanisms  & complex Space Instruments.

Our projects are highly innovative, technically challenging and diverse, we have projects in all phases of the product lifecycle ranging from Study phases, Design, Testing & Qualification models up to full integration and testing of flight hardware including launch campaigns. 

Operating across Belgium, Luxembourg, and Poland, we are dedicated to cultivating a positive and productive work environment that values our team members’ growth and well-being.

In this position, you will contribute to the end-to-end performance of an earth imaging satellite. You will monitor all elements in the imaging chain, including the environment, the satellite platform, the hyperspectral imaging instrument and the ground processing.

The activities will range from simulating the end-to-end performance to the development of in-flight calibration tools.  

Systems Performance Engineer

Antwerp, Belgium

Role

  • Maintaining a full system performance simulator, covering: satellite dynamics, optical payload and ground processor
  • Follow-Up of the instrument’s ground calibration campaign
  • Correlation of the instrument model with real instrument measurements
  • Quantification of the influence of the instrument’s key parameters, platform contributions (AOCS) and environmental effects
  • Optimization of the ground processing steps needed to achieve the performance requirements
  • Development of the in-flight calibration approach and associated calibration algorithms

Desired skills/ experience/ knowledge:

  • MSc or PhD in the relevant fields (control & simulation, mathematics, optics, image processing)
  • Proficiency with building simulation models
  • Proficiency with generation of technical documentation
  • Excellent analytical & organisational skills
  • Good programming skills, and in particular knowledge of Matlab
  • Enthusiastic result-oriented and fast-learning team player with good communication skills at all levels
  • Fluency in English (Written and Spoken)



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