Satellite Image Navigation, Registration and Calibration Engineer [25156]

Overview

Satellite Image Navigation, Registration and Calibration Engineer (25156)

Location: Darmstadt, Germany

Responsibilities

• Monitor the medium-term to long-term performance of Level 1 products;
• Improve Level 1 algorithms and develop new ones;
• Support the procurement of space segment simulators and processors;
• Contribute to INRC developments, particularly the preparation of the PIQMICS/MICMICS Monitoring Systems, MTG INR Reference Processor, and commissioning support;
• Contribute to the CO2M mission development;
• Product Quality monitoring of the operational Level 1 products (MSG SEVIRI Level 1.5, Sentinel-3 SLSTR Level 1B, Sentinel-3 OLCI Level 1B, and EPS AVHRR L1B products);
• Algorithm maintenance of the operational Level 1 Processors (MSG SEVIRI Level 1.5 Image Processing Facility, Sentinel-3 SLSTR Level 1B Instrument Processing Facility, Sentinel-3 OLCI Level 1B Instrument Processing Facility, and EPS AVHRR L1B Product Processing Facility);
• Contribute to the procurement of Data Processing packages for MTG-S mission (PDG-S, IQT-S, SCCDB-S) and to the processes and operational documentation for usage of these tools.

Qualifications

• University degree in remote sensing or a related subject;
• Understanding of optical remote sensing techniques from space;
• Thorough understanding of the interaction between instrument/platform characteristics and processing impact, including product quality;
• Remote sensing methodologies and techniques, including calibration and Level 1 processing;
• Development of Level 1 data processing systems for large (multi-instrument) operational space programmes;
• Validation of Level 1 data processing systems;
• Standards for data formats, in particular NetCDF-4 or HDF-5;
• Software engineering, requirements specification, design, testing and integration, ideally to ECSS/ISO standards;
• Software development in C/C++, Python, under UNIX/Linux, build environments (e.g., make, automake, autoconf, RPM));
• Fluency in English is mandatory; knowledge of another European language is an advantage.

Additional Information

This job is located in Darmstadt, Germany .

If you think you have what it takes for this job, please send your CV (in English and in Word or PDF) to Andrés Izquierdo, by clicking on the button “Apply for this job” quoting job NL-HP-25156.

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Last apply date: 31/10/2025 !

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