Mission Planning Software Engineer

EUMETSAT is an intergovernmental organisation based in Darmstadt, Germany. Our vision is to be the leading user-driven operational agency in Europe and a trusted global partner for weather and Earth system monitoring from space. All data provided by our state-of-the-art satellites systems are making a tangible difference in people's lives and contribute to the thriving European economy.

**What you’ll be doing**
- Define and manage procurements of industrial service and development contracts and their execution.
- Identify opportunities for optimisation and promote innovation within the engineering team, by staying up-to-date with the latest industry trends and emerging technologies, to drive product excellence and cost effective solutions into space operation.

**What we offer**
- Excellent salary, of up to Euro 8,000 **NET (after income tax)** based on skills and experience
- Flexible working time including additional flexi-leave
- Full medical coverage for employee and family
- Attractive pension
- 30 days of annual leave + 14.5 days public holidays
- Training and development support
- Relocation allowance and support (if applicable)

**Requirements**:
**Qualifications**:
Engineering degree in a relevant discipline (e.g. computer science, software engineering).

**Skills and Experience**:

- Five years’ experience in the development or maintenance of medium-large scale software systems in a high availability (24 h/day) environment;
- Application software lifecycle management covering phases from specification to maintenance and decommissioning (e.g. requirements engineering, design, development, integration, testing and operation);
- Proven experience with (e.g. web, cloud, containers); (e.g. microservices) and (e.g. DevSecOps).
- Good interpersonal and communications skills, team spirit and service orientation;
- Strengths in synthesising and presentation of complex problems and solutions.

Knowledge and experience in the following areas/systems would be a distinct advantage:

- Generative AI technology constructs and frameworks (e.g. RAG, LLMs, Langchain, Langgraph)
- Mission control functions within a typical earth observation mission namely: systems such as Mission Control Systems, Flight Dynamics Systems, Mission Planning Systems, and Satellite Simulators, with a particular emphasis on expertise in.

**Languages**:
**APPLICATIONS MUST BE SUBMITTED IN ENGLISH. WE WILL BE UNABLE TO CONSIDER APPLICATIONS SUBMITTED IN OTHER LANGUAGES.**

EUMETSAT is an international organisation employing staff from across all 30 member states and this role is being advertised on multiple international job boards, but please note that this role would be based in Darmstadt, Germany and would require international applicants to relocate if successful.

**More about us**

**EUMETSAT’s role is to establish and operate meteorological satellites to monitor the weather and climate from space - 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. This information is supplied to the National Meteorological Services of the organisation's Member and Cooperating States in Europe, as well as other users worldwide.**

**EUMETSAT also operates several Copernicus missions on behalf of the European Union and provide data services to the Copernicus marine and atmospheric services and their users.**

**As an intergovernmental European Organisation, EUMETSAT can recruit nationals only from the 30 Member States (Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey and the United Kingdom).**

Pay: Up to 8,000.00€ per month

Work Location: On the road