Lead End-to-End Performance Engineer, Space & Ground

EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY; Noordwijk; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

European Space Agency (Alpstar) seeks a Lead End-to-End Performance Engineer to ensure coherence and performance across space and ground segments, including interface verification and validation. You will interact with satellite, ground segment, and operational teams, capture user needs, discuss performance, and support transition to operations.

The role emphasizes defining performance requirements, managing interfaces, and coordinating verification activities within an international environment

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in engineering or related discipline with 4 years of relevant experience.
• Bachelor’s degree with an additional 4 years of relevant experience may be considered.
• Experience with space systems engineering and lifecycle.
• Ability to work in multi-disciplinary and international environments.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain end-to-end system performance requirements and budgets.
• Coordinate end-to-end performance verification programmes and interfaces.
• Review traceability of requirements from space to ground segments and subsystems.
• Lead or support validation, data processing, and operational transition activities.
• Interact with space/ground teams and external partners and manage programmatic aspects.

Skills

Systems engineering

Requirements engineering

Interface engineering

Space systems

Leadership

Team coordination

Education

Master’s degree in engineering

Tools

VCD

System modelling tools

Job description

European Space Agency (Alpstar) seeks a Lead End-to-End Performance Engineer to ensure coherence and performance across space and ground segments, including interface verification and validation. You will interact with satellite, ground segment, and operational teams, capture user needs, discuss performance, and support transition to operations.

The role emphasizes defining performance requirements, managing interfaces, and coordinating verification activities within an international environment