JOB DESCRIPTION:

Joining our Optical Instruments team in Ottobrunn (DE), we are seeking an

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

You will be working in a dynamic multi-national environment with contact to a wide range of stakeholders within and outside Airbus, including space agencies, industrial partners, scientific communities etc. This will require excellent communication skills, high flexibility and agility, and a structured working style. The following assets and skills would be of particular relevance for this position:

• Academic Degree in Physics or Engineering (Master or PhD).
• Good cross-disciplinary understanding of physics, in particular semiconductor physics, optics, opto-mechanics, imaging sensors, and electronics. Good knowledge of methods and tools for optical metrology and precision measurement.
• Hands-on experience in development, setup, and operation of optical or photonic systems. A few years of experience in an optical / electro-optical lab would be beneficial.
• Experience in scientific data processing, analysis, and visualization, starting from raw measurement data up to the final data product. A background experience as user of scientific data products could be helpful.
• Proficiency in scientific computing (using Matlab, Python, etc.) is required. Experience in the control of E/O characterization procedures with LabView is an asset. Basic ability to employ optical design and engineering software is helpful (Zemax, CodeV).
• You are fluent in written and spoken English.

Regular international business travel is common in our environment and has to be expected for this position, so that you should be free and willing to travel at reasonable intervals, in complement to virtual or hybrid meeting formats.
This job requires an awareness of any potential compliance risks and a commitment to act with integrity, as the foundation for the Company’s success, reputation and sustainable growth.

EXPERIENCE LEVEL:

Professional

TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Represent the project as authority for the detection chain architecture, also called focal plane assembly (FPA) or focal plane subsystem (FPS).
• Characterization, performance verification, and calibration of the payload sensorics. You will be the interface with the payload team, the customer, and other stakeholders within and outside Airbus.
• Contribute to analysis, budgeting, and mathematical modelling of the optical instrument performance. Support the development of a requirement breakdown that facilitates performance verification, and considers on-ground and in-orbit detector calibration. Contribute to related trade-off analyses.
• Define the approach for detector characterization, performance verification, and calibration. Identify and specify test setups and corresponding (optical) ground support equipment.
• Established detailed verification and calibration budgets, taking into account precision and accuracy of the employed test equipment and test concepts.
• Support the on-board calibration concept and harmonize the design of on-board calibration means with the payload engineering team, to ensure that the on-board calibration system and subsystems take into account the specific features and artefacts of the focal plane sub-system.
• Support specification, preparation, and execution of the payload performance verification and calibration campaign(s). Ensure a close exchange with the AIV and AIT team to utilize potential synergies between detector and instrument test campaigns
• Lead the subsequent detector data analysis and processing, resulting in formal verification against the customer requirements. Develop the “Algorithms Theoretical Baseline” (ATBD) for data processing.
• Maintain a close exchange with the science team to understand user needs and science requirements with respect to and impact on detector and FPA performance.
• Support the payload system engineering manager to assess and mitigate technical risks related to impacts from detector and its electronic to instrument performance verification & calibration.