Antenna Engineer for Telecom Payloads

• Job Location: Germany
• Type: Permanent
• Posted: 17/02/2025

Your Tasks

Proposal phase:
- Technical support in the creation of offers within the Telekom department
- Perform link budget analyses (utilizing in-house tools) to determine system capacity i.e.
 overall aggregated data rates
- Elaboration and development of your own payload approaches for a telecom mission
- Calculation and creation of antenna patterns in the offer phase using standardized 
analysis software (e.g. Grasp, SatSoft)
- Technical consultation and negotiations with the respective antenna suppliers
- Development of own ideas in the area of intelligent antennas (multibeam missions)
Implementation phase:
- Development of analogue and digital antennas for Telecom payloads based on 
customer-specification
- Carrying out and supporting all antenna reviews of the telecom payload
- Support of all subsystems related to electrical and mechanical antenna interface on board
a satellite
- Creation of all documentation in the course of a satellite project of
phase 0, A, B, C/D and phase E
Operational phase:
- Planning and execution of payload IOT (In Orbit Test) RF tests wrt. antenna pattern 
measurements
- Contact person for the payload antennas during the satellite's lifetime

Your Qualifications

- Master’s degree in RF or communication engineering, or equivalent qualification
- Good understanding of all high-frequency technology and its components such as amplifiers, LNA, 
waveguides, converters
- Initial experience in measuring antennas in a CATR (antenna compact range) would be an advantage
- Experience in using antenna simulation tools such as Grasp, FeKo and Sat-Soft
- Excellent communication skills and ability to collaborate effectively within a team
- Very good knowledge of the English language
- German language skills would be an advantage

Benefits

- Flexible working hours, sabbaticals, 30 days of holiday, and special leave days.
- A range of training courses, tailored professional development, subsidised German language classes,
  and annual employee reviews.
- 13th-month salary, accident insurance, and a company pension scheme.
- High-quality company canteen with meal subsidies.
- Health management, E-GYM Wellpass access, and in-company sports groups.
- Kindergarten subsidies/places, holiday childcare, and paid child sickness days.
- Subsidised Deutschland ticket, job bike, and parking spaces.
- Christmas party, satellite launch events, and NextGen Speakers Night.
- Company suggestion scheme and opportunities for research and development.

Capital International Staffing Ltd is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.