Junior Microwave DSP Engineer Space Payload (Hybrid)

Airbus; Getafe; Hybrid; EUR 30,000 - 42,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Vacation days

Hybrid work model

Life insurance

Health insurance

Employee stock options

Retirement plan

Study grants

On-site facilities

Job summary

Airbus Defence and Space SAU in Getafe (Madrid) is seeking a Junior Microwave Instrument Digital & Signal Processing Engineer to join the Microwave Instrument Engineering Team. You will contribute to digital architecture, signal-processing pipelines, and data-flow algorithms converting raw microwave radiometer data into calibrated satellite science data.

The role offers mentorship, structured training, and involvement in feasibility studies and flight-model implementation, with a hybrid working

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Telecommunications Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or Applied Mathematics.
• Entry-level / early-career experience in DSP or embedded instrumentation or internships.
• Strong fundamentals in Digital Signal Processing theory (sampling, filtering, calibration) with MATLAB/Simulink experience.

Responsibilities

• Define on-board data-acquisition architectures and processing chains (digital down-conversion, filtering, radiometric calibration, data compression).
• Implement, optimize, and validate signal-processing algorithms (FFT, matched filtering, noise-reduction) in MATLAB/Python for embedded C/C++ or FPGA environments.
• Develop instrument performance simulators (MATLAB-Simulink, SystemVue) to evaluate data-rate budgets, dynamic range, latency, and robustness.

Skills

DSP fundamentals

MATLAB/Simulink

Python or C/C++

English skills

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Telecommunications Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or Applied Mathematics

Tools

MATLAB/Simulink

Python

C/C++

FPGA tools (HDL)

SystemVue

Job description

Airbus Defence and Space SAU in Getafe (Madrid) is seeking a Junior Microwave Instrument Digital & Signal Processing Engineer to join the Microwave Instrument Engineering Team. You will contribute to digital architecture, signal-processing pipelines, and data-flow algorithms converting raw microwave radiometer data into calibrated satellite science data.

The role offers mentorship, structured training, and involvement in feasibility studies and flight-model implementation, with a hybrid working