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SWISSto12 is one of the world’s fastest-growing aerospace companies, evolving from its pioneering use of 3D printing technologies for high-performance Radio Frequency (RF) products and applications to recently announcing the manufacture of entire geostationary telecom satellites, called HummingSat, that define a new category in space.

HummingSat is the world’s first commercial telecom GEO SmallSat developed in collaboration with the European Space Agency (ESA). Its uniquely compact size combined with highly capable telecom payloads allows telecommunications operators to deploy a cost-efficient, compact, and agile asset without sacrificing performance or security. HummingSat has been selected by Intelsat to build the I-45 satellite, by Inmarsat to build three I-8 satellites, and recently by Astrum Mobile to build the NEASTAR-1 satellite.

SWISSto12 is also a leading provider of Radio-Frequency (RF) products and sub-systems for satellite communication and remote sensing applications. The company’s patented 3D printing technologies and associated product designs are unique to deliver lightweight, compact, highly performing, and competitive RF products.

This position is a unique opportunity to play a key role in the growth and scale-up of a new category leader in the Aerospace industry.

Job Requirements

We are looking for an experienced Electrical Systems Engineer to join our Space Active Antennas development.

• Extensive experience with spacecraft, payload or active antenna power subsystems, preferably for 5 years or more (power conversion, power distribution, schemes).
• Experience with spacecraft platforms bus standards and interface requirements.
• Experience with EMC applied to space payload and RF subsystems.
• Experience with space payload power harness engineering and manufacturing.
• Proven experience generating and maintaining a power budgets for space mission.
• Real-world experience with system architecture, requirements definition, flow down, tracking and performing system-level analyses in support of trade studies.
• Experience performing Spice simulations of the power sub/systems.
• Proven ability to know when and how to trade-off and optimize performance, resolve complex technical problems, manage technical work with partners, conduct technical development projects.
• Excellent knowledge of power supply system testing, EMC test equipment and the applicable standards.
• Experience with managing customer and supplier interfaces is a plus.
• Good understanding of principles for active antenna design, manufacturing, assembly, integration, test and operation.
• Ability to “think outside of the box” and thrive in challenging trade-off parameter space.
• Customer focused, must be able to work on a self-initiated basis and in a team environment.
• Excellent communication skills and ease at working across different cultures and different levels of an organization.
• Demonstrated ability to write clear technical documentation of high quality.
• Master or PhD degree in Electrical Engineering or Applied Physics or equivalent.
• Language: Fluent English is a prerequisite.
• Location: Madrid (Spain) or Lausanne (Switzerland)

Job Responsibilities

• Responsible for active antenna electrical subsystems, including power supply and distribution, EMC, digital control and telemetry, and working with our active antenna design team and our external partners and suppliers.
• Design and define optimum power supply and distribution design solutions for active antenna, considering different array antenna topologies, RF sub-systems (SSPA, LNA, beamforming distributed modules) and platform requirements.
• Design and define optimum solutions for telemetry acquisition, house-keeping and command and configure RF distributed subsystems in the array antenna.
• Lead or contribute to preparation of technical trade-offs.
• Provide support to active antenna design team for conception of new antenna innovative products, including electrical design, physical implementation, integration and testing
• Ensure the electrical subsystem complies with all requirements, including EMC, radiation, platform interface and environment requirements.
• Lead or contribute to development of active antenna power budgets.
• Prepare and/or review technical documentation in support of all tasks including unit level requirement flow-down, design/development, manufacturing and verification.
• Definition of environmental and EMC Qualification tests space electrical units. ECSS, MIL-STD-461E, MIL-STD-704, DO-160G.
• Develop relationships with electrical unit suppliers and partners, working with them to Design, Manufacture, Assemble, Integrate and Test each component in the subsystem.
• Define and prepare SoWs and specifications, contributing to problem solving and ensuring successful deliveries.
• General electrical engineering assistance in different projects across SWISSto12.
• Occasionally, you will be asked to participate in overall tasks and services inherent to a dynamic fast-growing company.

Job Benefits

Further details to be shared by our recruitment team.

More about SWISSto12:

SWISSto12 has successfully established contracts with Intelsat, Inmarsat, Astrum Mobile and ESA for HummingSat as well as contracts for their RF product line in Europe, and the US with prominent partners and customers such as Thales, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, SES and the ESA. SWISSto12 is a spin off from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL), is privately owned and backed by prominent Swiss and European Investors. SWISSto12 is headquartered in Lausanne, Switzerland, and operates a US and European-subsidiariesy in Foster City California. The company is well funded for its near and mid-term developments and backed by a solid customer revenue stream.