Navigation System Engineer

A Joint Venture between Thales (67%) and Leonardo (33%), Thales Alenia Space is a global space manufacturer delivering, for more than 40 years, high-tech solutions for telecommunications, navigation, Earth Observation, environmental management, exploration, science and orbital infrastructures. Thanks to our diversity of skills, talents and cultures, our customers (governments, institutions, space agencies, telecommunications operators), therefore have Space to Connect, Secure & Defend, Observe & Protect, Explore, Travel & Navigate.

As part of the Engineering Team, we are looking for a Navigation System Engineer, you will have the following responsibilities:

• To act as Navigation Signal Processing Engineer;
• Lead all activities of Signal Processing in order to support projects and solution for design, modelling, architectural trade-off and performance assessment;
• Modelling and simulation of Navigation Payloads;
• Simulation of Navigation Signals generation, acquisition, tracking, performance assessment, distortion estimation and payload self-equalization
• Lead the team and the activity with the aim to contribute to the internal R&D activities for all aspects related to Navigation Signal Processing;

You will act as member of the Navigation Engineering team co-located  in Rome working in the following projects:

• European Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS): Galileo first and second Generation;
• Moonlight: Lunar Navigation and Communication Satellite System that has the ambition to built the first Navigation Satellite system arounf the Moon;
• LEO-PNT system (Low-Earth-Orbit Positioning Navigation and Time system): constellation of small satellites in LEO orbit that provide PNT service to the user on the Earth;
• Several Space programs for the Italian Space Agency (ASI), European Space Agency (ESA) and also No-European Agency and Countries;

Skills & Experience 
The candidate shall have the following qualifications and working experience:

• PhD or University Master degree in Electronics Engineering or equivalent;
• 5-7 years of experience in Signal Processing.
• Experience in design, analyses and simulations of medium complex system;
• At least 1-2yeara of experience as technical team leader in projects of medium-low complexity;
• Experience with analysis of requirements and definition of technical solutions;
• Very good attitude in team working and cooperation with the other team members. It is mandatory a very good soft skill to promote the team-working;
• Welcome knowledge and previous expertise with space technology and solutions;
• Welcome previous experience in project management with focus on the management of activity, cost and schedule;
• Very good knowledge of system engineering process and ECSS standard;
• Team-working, problem solving;
• Fluency in English is mandatory;
• Italian languages is desirable;
• EC nationality
• Applicants must be eligible for security clearance by their national security administration even if their main activity are no-classified;Navigation System Engineer

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