Navigation System Engineer

Telespazio Belgium can count on more than 45 years of experience in the field of Space Operations Service & Engineering activities.

We provide a significant contribution to the most major Space programs of the European Space Agency, EUSPA and other Telespazio Groups. Our core business is to work on the ground to build bridges into space, contributing to the success of ambitious missions.

The European Space Agency is our biggest client and we provide highly qualified employees to many sites of ESA but mainly for ESTEC in the Netherlands, and we provide a permanent contract with great benefits, a good salary, a relocation package along with genuine support to our employees.

Telespazio Belgium has an on‑site service at ESTEC in the Netherlands, and we are looking for a highly skilled Navigation System Engineer to work there.

Candidates must be eligible for a security personal clearance from an EU Member State national security administration

What is expected from you:

As part of the activities within the technical directorate, the selected candidate will contribute to ESA engineering activities aimed at advancing resilient GNSS technologies and RF system capabilities. This effort focuses on enhancing technological solutions for robust positioning, navigation, and timing performance in the presence of interference and jamming, supporting both operational and programmatic objectives.

The activity centres on the development and validation of advanced solutions for GNSS receiver resilience and antenna technologies, including the exploitation of experimental datasets and laboratory infrastructures. The work will support the demonstration, testing, and refinement of advanced techniques for interference mitigation, performance monitoring, and system validation within ESA R&D and Third Party Services (TPS) activities.

The candidate will contribute to engineering activities related to resilient GNSS receivers and antenna systems and will be expected to:

• Support navigation-related activities within the service, focusing on resilient GNSS receiver processing, interference mitigation, and performance assessment
• Develop, maintain, and evolve software tools and simulation environments for the analysis of receiver and antenna performance under jamming and degraded RF conditions
• Exploit and analyse jammer test datasets, deriving performance metrics and validating mitigation techniques
• Define and implement corresponding SW/HW tools and laboratory setups, execute tests, and report technical results, conclusions, and recommendations
• Support ESA R&D and Third Party Services (TPS) activities, including experimental campaigns, technical analyses, and reporting
• Contribute to NavLab and RF laboratory activities, ensuring effective use of test infrastructures and tools
• Report technical results from project and internal activities through technical notes, reports, and presentations, as required by TEC-SEI

What you offer :

• University degree (MSc minimum) in telecommunications, electronic engineering, aerospace engineering or computer science
• Experience in GNSS navigation, signal processing, and performance analysis, with focus on resilience to interference and jamming
• Good knowledge of GNSS receiver processing chains (acquisition, tracking, positioning) and robust PNT techniques
• Experience in analysis and exploitation of RF or jammer test data and performance validation
• Experience in the development and maintenance of simulation tools and laboratory test setups
• Familiarity with RF test environments and laboratory-based validation activities
• Experience with software development in Python, MATLAB, and/or C/C++

What we offer:

• A competitive salary
• A 1-year contract with the possibility of extension
• 30 days of paid annual leave, plus the days ESTEC is closed including public holidays (~12 days) based on a 40-hour working week;
• Hybrid working scheme (3 days in the office and 2 days remote in the Netherlands)
• Flexible working hours; you are in charge of your own agenda respecting core working hours
• Fully paid collective extensive health insurance scheme;
• A good pension scheme with no personal contribution;
• A career development (Coursera membership + training budget);
• Travel allowance;
• Extensive relocation package

Where:

You will be working within ESTEC, the European Space Agency’s offices in the Netherlands as a contractor for Telespazio Belgium. We don’t expect the employees to be on-site full time however you will still have to relocate to the Netherlands for this position.

Check out the ESTEC site here: esa.int/About_Us/ESTEC

When:

Deadline to apply: ASAP

Please note that interviews will be held via Teams.

We look forward to receiving your application for this position