Electronics & Instrumentation Engineer | Space

S[&]T; Delft; On-site; EUR 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

S[&]T Delft is seeking an Electronics and Instrumentation Engineer Space to join our team in Delft. You will translate customer needs into system requirements, design electronic architectures, and build experimental setups to demonstrate key aspects of instrument prototypes.

You will work on full instrument prototypes as owned tech demonstrators and for high-profile international customers, collaborating with systems engineers and specialists in a dynamic R&D environment that values initiative

Qualifications

• MSc in Electrical Engineering with a specialization in microelectronics and/or instrumentation.
• Experience with PCB design and analysis of analog electronic circuits.
• Experience with complex hardware setups in a high-tech Space environment.
• Proactive with good communication and teamwork; comfortable with uncertainties in an R&D setting.

Responsibilities

• Specify electronic functionality on a concept level and create and implement electronic designs.
• Specify electronics functionality on an architecture level and create concept designs.
• Supervise the detailed design and realization by subcontractors, and work on functional tests and troubleshooting.

Skills

Proactive

Communication

Teamwork

Education

MSc in Electrical Engineering specialization in microelectronics/instrumentation

Tools

PCB design

Job description

About this job

We are currently looking for an Electronics and Instrumentation Engineer to join the team in Delft.

As an Electronics and Instrumentation Engineer Space you will analyze customer needs, translate these to system requirements, create conceptual designs and build experimental setups to demonstrate key aspects, all together with your colleagues. You will help realize and experimentally characterize full instrument prototypes; both as owned technology demonstrators and as prototypes for high-profile international customers.

Main responsibilities

As an engineer in our department, you are the key person who is involved in a number of different projects from the early requirements phase to the verification testing of hardware. In collaboration with the systems engineer and other technical specialists, you specify electronic functionality on a concept level and create and implement electronic designs. You specify electronics functionality on an architecture level and create concept designs. You supervise the detailed design and realization by subcontractors, and you work on functional tests and troubleshooting.

Requirements

• You have a MSc in Electrical Engineering with a specialization in microelectronics and/or instrumentation.
• You have experience with PCB design and can design and analyze analog electronic circuits.
• You have experience in working with complex hardware setups in a high-tech Space environment.
• You are proactive, have good communication and teamwork skills, and you feel at ease with the uncertainties and changing requirements typical of an R&D environment.

Please note that if you do not hear back from us within 10 days of your application, you may assume that we have selected another candidate we would like to interview for this position. We do our best to get back to you individually; however, due to a high volume of responses, it can be that we have not been able to reject your application in person.

Our story

At S[&]T we contribute to a safer life on earth by translating space data into valuable and actionable insights. We oversee data from instruments to application, and apply our expertise within our software frameworks, information products and consultancy.

Our society relies on space and scientific instruments for climate change monitoring, navigation, defence and national security, and other crucial services we all use in our daily lives. These instruments produce an enormous quantity of complex data, and our goal is to unlock its value.

We have more than 20 years of experience working on instrument calibration, the creation of data quality monitoring tools, the development of real-time data processing frameworks, and the development of application-specific algorithms. With this, we help organisations, governments and industries to strengthen their information position and thereby improve their decision making. We focus on the following domains: Space & Science, Defence & Security, Environment & Sustainability, and High-Tech Consulting.

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