S3C/IOPS Senior Engineer

Hispasat, as part of the SpaceRISE consortium, is responsible for the technical implementation and ensuring the success of the IRIS² project, leveraging its extensive experience in satellite communications. This collaboration is essential to provide secure and reliable high-performance communication solutions to the European Union and its member states.

To be part of this project, we are looking for S3C/IOPS Senior Engineer a whose responsibilities will be as follows:

Responsibilities:

• Concept, design, development and technical procurement of Satellite Control Centers and Operations Center and its adaptation for gov-ernmental and commercial applications:


• Conduct and follow-up conceptual design activities in the area of satellite control and operations center systems engineering, including but not limited to requirement, interface, user data and management data flow within the ground segment as well as TM/TC interfaces.


• Establishment of requirement for satellite control center hardware (HW) and software (SW) items and their interfaces to other ground seg-ment entities, e.g. ground stations, mission control center, networks incl. IT infrastructure as well as data centers.


• Elaboration of system trade-offs in the area of satellite control center systems engineering and support the overall architecture definition Requirements engineering with DOORS/JAMA in the area of the satellite and operation control centers and lower levels


• In the frame of procurement activities, follow-up the development and acceptance phase from the Request For Proposal (RFP) up to the final acceptance of the Satellite Control and Operations Centers


• After acceptance, follow up the integration fo Satellite Control and Operation Centers into the Ground Segment until it is delivery to the E2E IVV team.


• Elaboration of verification and validation concept at satellite control center level and support of relevant tests at higher level During operational phase, being technical point of contact for any anomalies that might occur and support the technical resolution of the issues.


• Elaboration of the operations concept as well as preparation of operational requirements and operational products (Flight & Ground Oper-ations Procedures) for the satellite control and operations center

• Master’s Degree in Tele-communications Engineer-ing, Electrical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering or related field


• +5 years relevant experience Experience in Satellite and Con-stellations Control and Operation Centers systems engineering Knowledge of satellite control center systems engineering wrt. technical interface, data flow (for user and management data) as well as TM/TC engineering (se-cure and unsecured) Strong experience in software based systems, networks and IT infrastructure


• Experience in design, develop-ment, integration, verification, op-erations of satellite control cen-ters and associated processes and operational procedures


• Experience in TM/TC routing al-gorithms for Satellite Constella-tions including Intersatellite Links


• Knowledge of satellite communi-cations Experience in managing technol-ogy projects


• Native to an EU member state and willing to undergo an EU secret clear-ance process.


• Fluency in English, both written and spoken, any other European lan-guage is considered as an asset


• Location: Madrid

At Hispasat we promote equal opportunities and an inclusive environment. All our selection processes are based on objective criteria, without distinction of gender, age, origin, sexual orientation, disability or other personal or social conditions. We value diversity as a driver of innovation and growth.