Antenna Engineer

Sub-millimeter Wave Engineer
We are looking for a Sub-millimeter Wave Engineer (E3) to join our Akkodis Aerospace team, working onsite at the European Space Agency in the Netherlands.

Akkodis has proudly supported the Aerospace & Defence industry in the Netherlands for decades. Our partnership with the European Space Agency (ESA) has been one of the many success stories allowing our people to expand their career horizons. Akkodis experts are contributing to some of the most important technical advances in Aerospace and Defence which impact the way we live our lives today, through specialised engineering expertise and other required skillsets.

This could be your future. Become part of our successful team!

Tasks to be performed

Contribution to the engineering work in the field of sub-millimeter wave engineering in support to ESA Projects, which includes:

Supporting Staff in interfacing with Projects (and Studies). This includes:

Providing expertise to support Projects (and Studies) throughout all project phases, for antenna sub-systems;

Performing and documenting relevant analyses;

Supporting the implementation of industrial project activities;

Supporting and performing "in-house" design and trade-offs to support projectspecific technology developments;

Providing hands-on antenna modelling and testing support to projects, which will require proper coordination with the corresponding Laboratory Service.

Supporting and contributing to meetings and reviews.

Identification, implementation, validation, and operation of the relevant section tools, which includes:

Providing expertise related to the software, hardware and data related tools;

Participating in the development, validation, deployment and maintenance of relevant internal software tools and databases;

Liaising with Technical Responsible for the proper configuration of software / hardware either developed in the service itself or originating from external activities.

Operating the tools for the purpose of supporting Projects or ESA R&D activities.

Support to Staff in the implementation of R&D activities in the technical domain. This includes:

Providing technical inputs to the definition of technology roadmaps and contributing to relevant reviews and meetings;

Monitoring applicable scientific and technological trends and maintaining state-of-the-art expertise in sub-millimeter wave systems;

Providing inputs to documentation and meetings / reviews, conducting relevant technical analyses;

Contribute to the definition of technical requirements and statements of work for the tasks to be performed by industry from early conceptual studies to full hardware development;

Reviewing output from industry / academia and providing inputs to the ESA Technical representative. This includes – when relevant – the conduction of software or of hardware tests in a Divisional laboratory, which will require proper coordination with the corresponding Laboratory Service.

Supporting the ESA Technical representative in meeting with industry / academia;

When required, organizing ad hoc meetings with industry / academia and reporting on their outcome to the ESA Technical representative.

In the frame of these functional tasks, technical activities are expected to include:

Analysing and characterizing submillimeter wave systems as well as interference effects with the spacecraft structure.

Designing, synthesizing, analysing and engineering all submillimeter antenna subsystems including stand-alone radiators, arrays, reflector and lens optics and their associated focal plane.

Executing instrument architecture, engineering and testing activities as well as antenna, front-end technology (e.g. quasi-optic multi-frequency, heterodyne receivers, direct detectors, arrays, lenses…) and components (e.g. mixers, multipliers…) developments for submillimeter wave applications.

Coordinating all aspects of antenna and submillimeter wave devices (e.g. Schottky diode, Kinetic Inductance Detectors, Quantum Cascade Lasers…), as well as coordinating non-electrical technology developments.

Interfacing with other sections for structural aspects (e.g. reflection characteristics, impact of manufacturing and…