Earth Observation Image Processing Engineer

VITO; Mol; Hybride; EUR 70 000 - 110 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Onsite in Mol with remote flexibility

Training and professional development

Résumé du poste

VITO, based in Mol, Belgium, develops Earth Observation solutions to address climate, land management and environmental monitoring challenges. The role involves integrating scientific insight with software development to deliver operational EO processing chains for optical, TIR, and SAR missions.

You will collaborate across researchers, engineers and external partners, defining products with customers and translating requirements into robust algorithms and workflows for large-scale data

Qualifications

• Master's degree or PhD in Remote Sensing, Geomatics, Geoinformatics, Computer Science, Physics, Engineering or related field.
• Strong experience with optical/SAR EO and satellite image processing from raw data to Level 2.
• Proficiency in developing image processing algorithms for satellite imagery.
• Strong programming skills in Python and C++, with geospatial libraries (NumPy, Xarray, GDAL, Rasterio).
• Good knowledge of geospatial data formats, CRS and spatial data processing.

Responsabilités

• Define EO products with customers, business developers and system engineers to meet mission objectives.
• Translate user requirements into technical specs for image processing algorithms.
• Develop and maintain image processing workflows transforming raw observations into calibrated products.
• Build scalable processing workflows for large volumes of data across missions and sensors.
• Contribute to calibration, validation and QA to ensure product quality and reliability.
• Support proposal preparation, feasibility studies and project execution with EO data processing expertise.

Connaissances

Python

C++

NumPy

GDAL

Formation

Master's degree

PhD

Outils

NumPy

Rasterio

Xarray

GDAL

Description du poste

VITO, based in Mol, Belgium, develops Earth Observation solutions to address climate, land management and environmental monitoring challenges. The role involves integrating scientific insight with software development to deliver operational EO processing chains for optical, TIR, and SAR missions.

You will collaborate across researchers, engineers and external partners, defining products with customers and translating requirements into robust algorithms and workflows for large-scale data