Telespazio - E2E Space System engineering per Ground Segment

Job Description:

Telespazio is a joint venture between Leonardo (67%) and Thales (33%) and one of the world’s biggest suppliers of satellite solutions and services. The company teams up with Thales Alenia Space to form the parent companies’ Space Alliance, a strategic partnership which offers a complete range of space services.

Founded in Italy in 1961, Telespazio is based in Rome and counts more than 3000 employees through its various subsidiaries and joint ventures.

Highlights of the role:
He/she will be involved in Earth Observation or Telecommunication space missions.

He/she will be responsible for E2E System or Ground Segment engineering in missions where Telespazio is either Prime Contractor with a Large Mission Integrator role, implementing innovative mission concepts.

In the design phase, starting from input requirements he/she will define the E2E System or Ground segment decomposition, proposing requirement allocation to subsystem. He/she will design state of the art System and Ground segment architectures, taking into account reuse/upgrading of existing components or new development. He/she will be in charge of performing system budget and trade off analysis. He/she will perform mission analysis and define the mission Operational Concepts in collaboration with the Operational experts. During the development phase, he/she will support or directly coordinate the development activities of the system and/or subsystems. During the AIT phase he/she will be in charge of supporting the AIV activities of the System or Ground Segment and its sub-systems. He/She will also be part of the integrated AIV team for the execution of the integration, verification and validation test campaigns.

Activities/Responsibilities 

• Input Requirements Analysis
• System and Subsystem Interface definition and verification.
• System Performance Analysis and design justification dossier
• Qualification and acceptance strategy definition
• System, Ground Segment and Sub-systems development supervision
• Mission analysis and Concept of Operations definition
• Contribution to In Orbit Plan, Nominal Operations Plan and Maintenance Plan definition
• Contribution to AIV team for the execution of the integration, verification and validation test campaigns

Qualifications / Experience

• Master’s degree or comparable in Aerospace Engineering or Telecommunications Engineering, or equivalent qualification, preferably in engineering or Remote Sensing
• At least 3 years of relevant experience

Essential Skills

• Experience in Earth Observation and/or Telecommunication E2E System and/or Ground Segment engineering, design, analysis and trade off
• Experience in mission analysis
• System Engineering methodologies and tools for system functional analysis, including requirement and interfaces management
• Knowledge of system engineering processes, and system and software life-cycles and standards;
• Good English knowledge

Desirable Skills

• Experience in Earth Observation or Telecommunication programs (e.g. Ground Segments for Defence applications)
• Experience in Telecommunication and/or Earth Observation sub-systems engineering, design, analysis and trade off
• Experience in software development from design to the implementation and tests
• Experience in Ground Segment and sub-system development, qualification and acceptance
• Experience using Project tracking and Management tools

Qualities:

• Strong focus on reaching progress by thinking and communicating in terms of solutions, and the ability of reaching goals under schedule pressure
• Excellent communication skill, with strong written and oral communication skills
• Ability to work in international and multi-disciplinary teams. Team player, open and keen to contribute
• Available to frequent business travels in Europe
• Execution effectiveness and continuity
• Conscientious, hard working
• Attention to detail

Place of work:

Mainly Rome

Availability to travel EU and extra-EU

Seniority:

Expert

Primary Location:

IT - Roma - Via Tiburtina, 965

Contract Type:

Permanent

Hybrid Working:

Hybrid