Microwave Radiometer RF Architect

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An opportunity for a Microwave Radiometer RF Architect has arisen within Airbus Defence and Space, Getafe (Madrid).

The selected candidate will join the Microwave Instrument Engineering Team, a specialized multidisciplinary department at the forefront of spaceborne Earth Observation (EO) payload engineering. In this technical leadership role, you will define and drive the RF system architecture for cutting-edge microwave and millimetre-wave (mmWave) radiometer payloads across current and next-generation satellite missions. You will steer end-to-end instrument design from early concept, TRL maturation, and customer milestones through to payload verification, ground testing, and in-orbit commissioning support.

The main tasks of the jobholder will be:

• RF Architecture Definition & Trade-Offs: Define baseline architectures for spaceborne radiometer payloads (L-band up to sub-THz) and lead technical trade-offs balancing RF performance, mass, DC power, and thermal constraints.
• Front-End & Calibration Engineering: Design and optimize high-sensitivity low-noise receivers, RF front-ends, and internal/external radiometric calibration subsystems, maintaining end-to-end budgets (noise figure, noise temperature, dynamic range, and sensitivity).
• System Modeling & Simulation: Develop high-fidelity electromagnetic and circuit-level simulations using tools such as Keysight ADS, CST Studio, and ANSYS HFSS to validate architecture concepts under operational flight conditions.
• Verification & Technical Governance: Generate and maintain Verification Control Documents (VCD), lead Technology Readiness Level (TRL) assessments, and establish ground support equipment (EGSE/MGSE) specifications.
• AIT & Test Campaign Leadership: Steer payload Assembly, Integration & Testing (AIT), environmental validation campaigns, and define in-orbit commissioning roadmaps in alignment with ECSS standards.
• Milestone Leadership & Proposal Elaboration: Represent RF engineering in formal ESA/customer milestones (SRR, PDR, CDR, TRR, TRB) and lead the technical baseline for future Earth Observation active and passive instrument proposals.

Permanent

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