Antenna-Engineer for Telecom Payloads (m/f/d)

OHB System AG is one of the leading space companies in Europe. The company is part of the listed high-tech group OHB SE, which has more than 3,000 employees working on pivotal European space programs. With two strong locations in Bremen and Oberpfaffenhofen near Munich and more than 40 years of experience, OHB System AG specialises in high-tech solutions for space. These include low-orbiting and geostationary satellites for Earth observation, navigation, telecommunications, science and space exploration as well as systems for human space flight and aerial reconnaissance. We owe our success to our employees' passion for innovation, as well as their commitment and initiative.

Ihre Aufgaben

To further expand the Telecom satellite Payloads department, we are looking for an antenna specialist for the design and platform accommodation of different antenna shapes such as TX/RX DRAs, reflector antennas including their mechanisms such as HRM and ADPM (deployment mechanisms). Furthermore, the field of digital antennas to support beamforming (analog and digital) should also be covered.

Your Tasks

Proposal phase:

• Technical support in the creation of offers within the Telekom department

• Perform link budget analyses (utilizing OHB in-house tools) to determine system capacity i.e. overall aggregated data rates

• Elaboration and development of your own payload approaches for a telecom mission

• Calculation and creation of antenna patterns in the offer phase using standardized analysis software (e.g. Grasp, SatSoft)

• technical consultation and negotiations with the respective antenna suppliers

• Development of own ideas in the area of intelligent antennas (multibeam missions)

  Implementation phase:

• Development of analogue and digital antennas for Telecom payloads based on customer-specification

• Carrying out and supporting all antenna reviews of the telecom payload

• Support of all subsystems related to electrical and mechanical antenna interface on board a satellite

• Creation of all documentation in the course of a satellite project of phase 0, A, B, C/D and phase E

  Operational phase:

• Planning and execution of payload IOT (In Orbit Test) RF tests wrt. antenna pattern measurements

• Contact person for the payload antennas during the satellite's lifetime

Ihr Profil

• Master's degree in RF or communication engineering, or equivalent qualification

• Good understanding of all high-frequency technology and its components such as amplifiers, LNA, waveguides, converters

• Initial experience in measuring antennas in a CATR (antenna compact range) would be an advantage

• Experience in using antenna simulation tools such as Grasp, FeKo and Sat-Soft

• Excellent communication skills and ability to collaborate effectively within a team

• Very good knowledge of the English language

• German language skills would be an advantage

Wir bieten Ihnen

Work Life Balance: Flexible working hours, sabbatical, 30 days vacation & special leave days Mobile Work: Hybrid work & mobile work abroad Structured on-boarding process (incl. Assignment of a buddy in the first months) Development: Extensive range of training courses, individual professional development, German language courses & annual employee dialogue space projects Additional benefits: 13. monthly salary, accident insurance & company pension plan Catering: High standard company restaurant & generous meals subsidy Active health promotion: Health management, E-GYM Wellpass & In-company sports groups Family: Kindergarten subsidy / Kindergarten places, Childcare in the vacation period & paid child sickness days Mobility: Subsidized Deutschland ticket, Job bike & parking lots Company parties & events: Christmas party, Satellite launch events, NextGen Speakers Night Innovation: Company suggestion system & free research and development

A complete overview of our benefits and more details can be found here on our website.

Become part of our international team and take your professional and personal development to a new level. Don't fulfil all the requirements? No problem - we are happy to receive applications with partial matches! We are looking forward to your application in German or English via our online tool.

OHB System AG Human Resources

Questions regarding this posting? Sven Friedrich is available under career@ohb.de.