Telespazio Belgium can count on almost 40 years of experience in the field of Space Operations Service & Engineering activities.
We provide a significant contribution to the most major Space programs of the European Space Agency. Our core business is to work on the ground to build bridges into space, contributing to the success of ambitious missions.
The European Space Agency is our biggest client and we provide highly qualified employees to many sites of ESA but mainly for ESTEC in the Netherlands, and we provide a permanent contract with great benefits, a good salary, a relocation package along with genuine support to our employees.
On behalf of the European Space Agency, we will be soon looking for a highly skilled System Modelling and Simulation Engineer to work in ESTEC, in the Netherlands.
What is expected from you:
- This position shall provide expert support in the field of Extended Reality (XR), which combines Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR).
- Based in the EGSE and Ground Systems section at ESTEC, a significant amount of the support will be provided to the XR team located at the European Astronaut Centre (EAC) in Cologne, where XR technologies are envisaged for space operations training, space modules design, science preparation, future operations and haptics. In addition, XR activities in the space domain in general, and specifically in spacecraft testing shall be supported. The specific tasks are:
- To provide expert support on XR technologies, both on the software and hardware;
- To analyse, propose and document the most adequate XR software and hardware architectures, to achieve the various project goals;
- To collect and analyse user experiences (from trainers, operation teams, scientist), and to suggest improvements;
- To promote the use of XR technologies with end-users in the various ESA application domains;
- To maintain close contact with experts in the field, with ESA internal groups, industry and research institutions;
- To support the Agency's tendering actions in the related field, and to perform the technical oversight of industrial activities;
- To contribute to the ESA strategy on XR by providing inputs to roadmaps and workplans.
What you offer :
- An academic degree in Computer Science or Aerospace Engineering, or in another relevant engineering discipline;
- A minimum of 4 years of relevant professional experience;
- A deep knowledge of XR (AR and VR) technologies, both of software and hardware;
- Experience with at least one commonly used 3D rendering engine (e.g. Unreal or Unity);
- Knowledge of software engineering processes and related standards;
- The capability to work in close collaboration both with ESA internal groups and with external entities;
- A proactive attitude and the ability to organise the assigned tasks efficiently and effectively
What we offer:
- A competitive salary
- 30 days of paid annual leave, plus the days ESTEC is closed including public holidays (~12 days) based on a 40-hour working week;
- Hybrid working scheme (3 days in the office and 2 days remote in the Netherlands)
- Flexible working hours; you are in charge of your own agenda respecting core working hours
- Fully paid collective extensive health insurance scheme;
- A good pension scheme with no personal contribution;
- A career development (Coursera membership + training budget);
- Travel allowance;
- Extensive relocation package
Where:
You will be working within ESTEC, the European Space Agency’s offices in the Netherlands as a contractor for Telespazio Belgium. We don’t expect the employees to be on-site full time however you will still have to relocate to the Netherlands for this position.
Check out the ESTEC site here: esa.int/About_Us/ESTEC
When:
Coming Soon!
Please note that interviews will be held either via skype, webex, other digital platforms or onsite in ESTEC
We look forward to receiving your application for this position!
