190232 Research staff with a university degree (non-PhD)

Universidade de Vigo; España; On-site; EUR 23,000 - 28,000; Full time

Job summary

Universidade de Vigo in Spain seeks a research engineer to develop an optical propagation simulator for atmospheric turbulence and practical effects. You will explore ML-based digital wavefront correction and assess feasibility on FPGA/SoC hardware.

The role includes developing orbital propagation tools using ERA5 data, building an optical link budget engine, and contributing to commissioning of a portable optical ground station in the lab, coordinating with external groups.

Qualifications

• Academic Training in Telecommunication Engineering.
• Proven professional experience.
• Knowledge of languages (Spanish, English, Galician) with practical professional application.

Responsibilities

• Developing an optical propagation simulator for atmospheric turbulence and related effects.
• Assessing machine learning techniques for digital wavefront correction on on-board hardware.
• Developing orbital propagation and ERA5 meteorological analysis tools.
• Implementing an optical link budget engine to analyse ground station diversity.
• Comissioning a portable optical ground station in the lab (tracking, alignment, pointing).
• Liaising with external groups and disseminating results.

Skills

Programming experience

Languages

Education

Academic Training in Telecommunication Engineering

Tools

Git

Job description

Organisation/Company Universidade de Vigo Department T14 Signal and Communications Theory Research Field Engineering » Other Researcher Profile Recognised Researcher (R2) Positions Master Positions Application Deadline 18 Nov 2026 - 23:59 (Europe/Madrid) Country Spain Type of Contract Temporary Job Status Full-time Hours Per Week 37.5 Is the job funded through the EU Research Framework Programme? European Union / Next Generation EU Reference Number 190232 Is the Job related to staff position within a Research Infrastructure? No

Offer Description

Developing an optical propagation simulator for atmospheric turbulence including operational effects (point-ahead angle, transmitter and receiver imperfections, noise and coherent reception) and using it to generate a reference dataset.

Assessing machine learning techniques for digital wavefront correction and their feasibility on on-board hardware (FPGA/SoC).

Developing orbital propagation and meteorological analysis (ERA5) tools to predict cloud-driven link availability.

Implementing an optical link budget engine to analyse ground station diversity and optimise pass scheduling.

Contributing to the commissioning of a portable optical ground station in the laboratory (tracking, alignment and pointing).

Liaising with external groups and documenting and disseminating results.

Item 01: Academic Training in Telecommunication Engineering. Proven professional experience. Knowledge of languages (Spanish, English, Galician) with practical professional application (punctuation: 30)

Item 02: SW and HW merits: (1) Programming experience (C, VHDL, Python, etc.). (2) Code management tools (Git). (3) Experience with optical systems. *All within the space and defence sectors, in the field of telecommunications (punctuation: 25)

Item 03: Systems and communications merits (experience and knowledge): (1) Systems engineering. (2) Communications, power, data, etc. budgets. (3) Simulation of optical communications propagation. *All in space and defence systems (punctuation: 20)

Item 04: Other merits related to the tasks to be performed, proactivity and interest in continuous training, organisational skills and teamwork in aerospace and defence environments (punctuation: 10)

Item 05: Personal interview. The interview will be conducted only with those 3 candidates who, in the sum of the merits, reach a minimum of 50 points (punctuation: 15)

Additional Information

2284 € (including the apportionments of extra payments)

Number of offers available 1 Company/Institute SCHOOL OF TELECOMMUNICATION ENGINEERING - VIGO Country Spain Geofield