Payload Testbed Technical Lead

GMV; Tres Cantos; Hybrid; EUR 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Relocation package

Wellbeing program

Career development support

Job summary

GMV is expanding its space sector teams to lead the CELESTE IOP End-to-End Payload Testbed development. The role focuses on coordinating the technical design, requirements, architectures and test plans for a laboratory platform verifying navigation payloads for low-Earth orbit satellites.

You will work on RF signal simulation, timing references, instrumentation and data analysis, ensuring alignment across subsystems and achieving robust functional performance.

Qualifications

• Degree in Telecommunications, Aerospace, Electronics, Industrial, Computer Science or similar.
• Experience in defining and managing requirements, interfaces and architectures.
• Knowledge of radio frequency systems and chains.
• Fundamentals of signal generation, acquisition and processing.
• High level of English.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain the functional and physical architecture of the CELESTE IOP End-to-End Payload Testbed.
• Analyze and consolidate technical requirements, interfaces and use cases.
• Break down system requirements into functions, equipment, activities and tests.
• Ensure consistency between the constellation simulator, the payload, the user receiver, the control unit and instrumentation.

Skills

Systems engineering

Requirements management

RF systems

Signal processing

English proficiency

Education

Degree in Telecommunications/Aerospace/Electronics/Industrial/CS

Job description

We are expanding our teams in the space sector to take on navigation projects.

We´ll get to the point; we'll tell you what's not on the web. If you want to know more about us go to GMV website

WHAT CHALLENGE WILL YOU BE TAKING ON?

We are looking for someone to take on technical responsibility for the CELESTE IOP End-to-End Payload Testbed, a laboratory platform designed to comprehensively verify and validate low-Earth orbit satellite navigation payloads.

The testbed will combine radio-frequency signal simulation, precise time and frequency references, measurement instrumentation, test automation, payload monitoring and control, I/Q sample recording and analysis tools. It will enable functional and performance testing and the characterisation of the payload’s temporal and radio-frequency behaviour. The successful candidate will be responsible for the technical coordination of the test bench’s development, undertaking the following tasks:

• Defining and maintaining its functional and physical architecture.
• Analysing and consolidating the technical requirements, interfaces and use cases.
• Breaking down the system requirements into functions, equipment, activities and tests.
• Ensuring consistency between the constellation simulator, the payload, the user receiver, the control unit and the instrumentation.

WHAT DO WE NEED IN OUR TEAM?

We are looking for candidates with a degree in Telecommunications, Aerospace, Electronics, Industrial, Computer Science or a similar discipline. And with extensive experience in:

• Systems engineering applied to complex technological systems.
• Defining and managing requirements, interfaces and architectures.
• Knowledge of radio frequency systems and chains.
• Fundamentals of signal generation, acquisition and processing.
• High level of English.

WHAT DO WE OFFER?

Hybrid working model and 4 weeks per year of teleworking outside your usual geographical area.

Flexible start and finish times, and intensive working hours Fridays and in summer.

Personalized career plan development, training and language learning support.

National and international mobility. Do you come from another country? We can offer you a relocation package.

Competitive compensation with ongoing reviews, flexible compensation and discount on brands.

Wellbeing program: Health, dental and accident insurance; free fruit and coffee, physical, mental and financial health training, and much more!

In our recruitment processes you will always have telephone and personal contact, face-to-face or online, with our talent acquisition team. In addition, bank transfers and bank cards will never be requested. If you are contacted through any other process, please write to our team at [e-mail].

We promote equal opportunities in recruitment, and we are committed to inclusion and diversity.

If you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact Ignacio Martínez de Salinas, in charge of this vacancy.

Ignacio Martínez de Salinas