Electrical Architect

Overview

As part of the Optical Group the Imaging Electronics Team seeks a dynamic, organised and proactive engineer with high standards to support the electrical development of the ESA TRUTHS instrument.

TRUTHS - The Tracebale Radiometry Underpinning Terrestrial and Helio-Studies mission will be a 'standards laboratory in space', setting the 'gold standard' reference for climate measurements.

Key Tasks

• Support and perform electrical architecture activities in conjunction with th current electrical architect team on the TRUTHS instrument
• Assist in the review, from an electrical and data handling (TMTC) point of view, of supplier data packs and participate in supplier co-engineering meetings
• Review and assist update of the payload specification and lower level electrical equipment and data handling
• Generate and maintain system block diagrams, electrical interfaces, grounding and isolation, electrical block diagram, switching & TMTC diagrams and modes of operation
• Maintain ICDs, harness definitions, power budgets , data rates
• Generate applicability matrices and jacket requirement documents for Spacewire and WizardLink interfaces
• Satellite Reference DataBase (SRDB) definition and development plan
• Support the AIT team in EGSE definition
• Co-ordinate the development of the instrument control unit known as the Payload Management Control System with the subcontractor
• Act as a point of contact with the subcontractor to ensure system level requirements are addressed appropriately
• Manage the timely meeting of milestones and reporting of the PMCS status to the Industrial Manager and to the customer (ESA)
• Maintaining technical documents throughout the design lifecycle
• Contributing and actively taking part in customer design reviews

Person Specification Experience

• Several years of mixed signal, analogue and digital hardware engineering experience.
• Good track record with planning and meeting budgets/schedule.
• Experience in managing and working with sub-contractors
• Experience in space based instrumentation highly desirable
• Experience in managing complex electronics systems through full life cycle; from requirements capture, verification to system integration
• Experience working to ESA ECSS standards highly desirable

Knowledge & Skills

• A degree or equivalent in Electronics Engineering
• Excellent inter-personal and communication skills, able to influence, persuade and negotiate with people at all levels (externally & internally) as well as to assist in reaching compromises when there are conflicting requirements
• Self-motivated, creative, high attention to detail and accountable
• Ability to work autonomously or within project team(s) and a real company player
• Good communication skills able to work effectively with both customers, sub-contractors and suppliers
• Ability to work under pressure in an organised and responsive manner
• Flexible and adaptable to changing priorities
• Creative problem solving
• Good MS Office Skills