Opto-Electronics Engineer

HE Space is a successful international space company. For 40 years, we have been supporting our customers with qualified experts in the field of engineering, science and administration. HE Space has joined forces with CS Group to lead the engineering and digital space market in Europe and to provide highly skilled consulting.

As part of the Opto-Electronics Section, you will have the following responsibilities:

• Support to technology development contracts and performance of in-house design work. In particular, assist in the establishment of requirements and configurations for payload equipment and sub-systems involving: Solid state lasers, Fibre-optic components, Detectors and focal plane instrumentation; Quantum-electronic devices and systems, including optical atomic clocks; Superconducting devices and sensors.
• Review and evaluation of technical documentation and design dossiers.
• Perform analysis and elaborate outline design and configurations.
• Assist, where appropriate, external and internal testing, verification and evaluation of opto-electronic systems and components, including ground and airborne measurement campaigns.
• Contribute to the definition, maintenance and use of design, engineering and verification software tools for photonic systems and components.
• Definition, design, establishment of performance budgets and performance analysis of optical and quantum communication test set-ups.
• Procurement and commissioning of technical parts and devices for laboratory setups.
• Assembly, verification and maintenance of opto-electronic test setups.
• Laboratory hardware control programming (eg. Matlab, Simulink, Python).
• Independent execution of optical tests in the opto-electronics laboratory on components and systems related to optical and quantum communication, lasers and detectors, high-speed (>100 Gbs) communication equipment (for coherent transmission) and digital signal processing (DSP).
• Provision of expert technical support to ESA projects and studies for the development of opto-electronic components and subsystems throughout all project phases.
• Support the development of opto-electronic technologies and subsystems with emphasis on testing, verification and calibration.
• Definition and follow-up of instrument on-ground test and calibration activities and of in-orbit commissioning.
• Evaluation of procurement proposals

And/Or

• Assist in the calibration of the optical test set-up to allow quantitative laser damage tests.
• Operate the Laser Induced Damage test set-up during test sequences.
• Prepare test samples.
• Assist in the analysis and interpretation of the test data.

• Master in optoelectronics engineering, in physics or a relevant engineering discipline. Possession of PhD would be considered an asset.
• Candidates must be eligible for security clearance from an EU Member State national security administration.
• Experience in the design, development and testing of opto-electronic systems and components.
• Good system experience in the use and application of fibre-optic components and sensors in spacecraft engineering.
• And/Or Experience with high-power pulsed laser systems, complex optical set-ups and vacuum systems.
• Fluency in English is mandatory; knowledge of another European language is an advantage.

This job is located in Noordwijk, the Netherlands.

If you think you have what it takes for this job, please send your CV in English to Viktoria Panicharova by clicking on the button “Apply for this job” quoting job NL-HP-25104.

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