Mission Analysis and Flight Dynamics Engineer (m/f/d)

Stellenbeschreibung

Your Tasks

• Perform Mission Analysis for Earth observation satellites in LEO and GEO.
• Analysis and derivation of Mission and System performance parameters
• Point of Contact to Subsystem designers for Mission-related requirements and constraints.
• Point of Contact to Payload designers and System Engineers (in particular, Operations preparation engineers) for the consolidation of an operational concept related to the payload commanding.
• Provide Subsystem designers with the required Mission-related analyses and profiles.
• Conception, design, development and validation of SW packages for Mission Analysis and Flight Dynamics purposes.
• Development of optimal / suboptimal Attitude Guidance profiles
• Computation of nominal mission profiles.
• Development of Orbit Control strategies and related SW
• Derivation of Mission-related requirements.

Your Qualifications

• Master’s or doctoral degree or equivalent in Engineering, Physics or Mathematics.
• Deep and hands-on knowledge on Orbital Dynamics problems and methods.
• Ability and experience to apply theoretical knowledge for the solution of technical problems in Space Flight Dynamics.
• Experience in the use of numerical methods for Orbit Determination and Control.
• Experience as FD engineer in operational context is a plus.
• Good knowledge of satellite Attitude Kinematics and Dynamics.
• Knowledge and experience in optimization theory is a plus.
• Ability to work in cooperation with Systems and Subsystems Engineers in multidisciplinary teams.
• Excellent command in MATLAB and Python. C and System Tool Kit (STK) are a plus.