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In this role, you will design satellite simulators and enhance the simulation framework while collaborating with multidisciplinary teams on software architectures and testing processes.
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Your role in the team
- Design and develop satellite simulators, including models of satellite equipment and the space environment.
- Enhance and extend our simulation framework, user interfaces, testing and debugging tools.
- Contribute across the full software lifecycle, from requirements and architecture through implementation, testing, integration, and documentation.
- Collaborate with customers and internal software teams on system design, reviews, and simulator delivery.
- Support mission teams during mission preparation and throughout the operational and maintenance phases of the simulators.
- Share knowledge and contribute to a collaborative engineering culture.
Our expectations of you
Education
- Degree or PhD in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering or a comparable qualification.
Qualifications
- Familiarity with Linux as a development environment, with frameworks like Qt and modern CI/CD tooling.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills and the ability to work effectively in multidisciplinary teams.
- Fluency in spoken and written English.
Experience
- Experience with modern C++ and ideally Python or similar languages.
- Experience with ECSS-SMP tools/environments and software standards (e.g. ECSS or DO-178) is beneficial.
- Additional background in one or more of the following areas would be an advantage: previous experience in the space sector with a focus on the ground station software, embedded or safety- and mission-critical software development, on-board communication protocols (Ethernet, SpaceWire/SpaceFibre, CAN etc.), digital twins, simulation and software development integration with MBSE workflows (e.g. SysMLv2), distributed/federated simulation (HLA), co-simulation, network simulation (ns-3, OMNeT++, containerlab).
What we offer
- Work Life Balance: Flexible working hours, sabbatical, 30 days vacation & special leave days.
- Mobile Work: Flexible working arrangement balancing remote and on-site work.
- 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.
- 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.
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About your employer
For more than 40 years, OHB System AG has been developing high-tech solutions for the aerospace industry and other fields.
- 1981
- Established Company
- Hybrid, Onsite
- Aviation, Space Travel
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