Ground Stations & Telecommunication System Engineer

At Airbus, our purpose is to improve life on Earth and beyond through our cutting-edge space technologies. With every technological breakthrough, we bring people closer together, we navigate new frontiers and we discover new and unexplored destinations. And we don't just take innovations to space - our space solutions and projects help solve global challenges on Earth. We are looking for a candidate to become our new Satellite Ground System Engineer (d/m/f) with focus on ground stations and telecommunication for national space projects within Airbus Space Engineering, located in Friedrichshafen, Germany. You will be a member of the System Architecture & Lead Engineering Team with great team-players aside you. You will join a diverse and empowered team working on Space & Ground Systems Architectures, Secure Space Solutions, Systems Engineering, Development, Operations, Data Processing, and Performance Modelling. You will benefit from training opportunities and new ways of working (home office, digital tools, flexible working hours etc.). You will find great leadership teams whose priority is to support your development, foster team spirit and give meaning to your activity in a global Airbus environment. On top, thanks to the high diversity of jobs and competencies that we can offer in our domain, you will have opportunities to grow & prepare your longer-term development plan. We are looking for diverse people to design creative ground system solutions. As a System Engineer (d/m/f) for ground systems with focus on ground stations and telecommunication, you will be part of a team based in Friedrichshafen supporting our integrated national space mission project teams. Your tasks include the specification of state-of-the-art transmission paths and protocols for communication between the space and ground segments. You develop innovative solutions for direct links between satellites and ground stations as well as for indirect communication via relay satellites. Additionally, you design the ground network connections for efficient data transfer from the ground stations to the ground segment. Beside the operational activities, you will contribute to our transformation plan that has the vision to become national champion for high-performance Ground-Space Mission Solutions. You will work on concrete operational tasks while capitalising return of experience for future secure space solution improvement. Join our empowered and engaged teams!