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D-Orbit is hiring a systems engineer with background in robotic sensors to join our growing robotics engineering team. You will contribute to the design of D-Orbit next-gen spacecraft platforms to deliver in-orbit services on space assets. Particularly you will be responsible for the development of robotic joint sensors, working with the rest of the team to define joint sensing strategy, sensor selection and development, contribute to the joint mechatronics design and to the control algorithms for serial link manipulators, and the overall robotics architecture. Your ultimate objective as robotic sensing systems engineer is to deliver the best sensing solution in terms of technical performance, meeting control requirements and joint constraints, taking into account design-to-cost and design-to-production needs.
You will be involved in mission and spacecraft design and development, following the full development cycle from preliminary conceptualization to manufacturing, assembly, integration and testing of the real spacecraft for the maiden flight mission. You will interface with procurement team to scout new sensor technologies and purchase equipment to build the joint, support prototyping / manufacturing technicians during the assembly and verification activities. After launch, you will provide technical support related to robotics domain to the Spacecraft Controllers (SpaCon) during the on-orbit operations.
Tasks and Responsibilities:
- Be the technical responsible for robotic sensing systems and related components;
- Design and development the robotic sensing solution for the spacecraft manipulator;
- Robotic sensing systems budgeting and analyses, including sensing technologies scouting and trade-off, sensor sizing, controllability analysis, uncertainty analysis, sensor signal conditioning requirements, etc.;
- Coordinate the integration of robotic sensing system into the overall robotic systems architecture, particularly managing all sensor interfaces, e.g. physical, software and functional / operational ones;
- Contribute to the stakeholder/mission/project requirements capturing & management;
- Contribute to the robotic systems verification and validation plan and requirements compliance;
- Define the verification test procedures, and support test setup and execution for the sensor;
- Work within a multidisciplinary team of specialists on the spacecraft systems and s/s design, becoming the reference point for robotic sensing ones;
- Interface with and support AIV team and related activities;
- Interface with prototyping / manufacturing to support assembly and verification (ground);
- Interface with SpaCons to support on-orbit verification and validation during mission execution;
Professional Experience:
We are interested in speaking to people with a minimum of one year of work experience preferably in Space Systems Robotics, acceptable in other relevant engineering domains, e.g. industrial robots.
Job Requirements:
- Experience in robotics systems design and development, with practical hands-on experience in robotic applications considered a plus.
- Basic knowledge of Systems Engineering principles and systems-level knowledge of all spacecraft subsystems;
- Knowledge of extensimetric, piezoelectric, hall effects, optic transducer principles and sensor design;
- Base knowledge of serial link manipulator technologies and filtering techniques. Advanced knowledge of joint torque-based control strategies is a plus;
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills;
- Proactive attitude and ability to work in a team;
- Experience in the use of MATLAB/Simulink/Simscape and Python;
- Experience in requirements management tools, e.g. DOORS or Jama;
- Basic knowledge of software development and configuration management, e.g. GIT or Bitbucket;
- Knowledge of Microsoft Excel;
Nice-to-have skills:
- Base knowledge of vision based technologies and algorithms for robotic state estimations;
- Base knowledge of robotic busses architectures, e.g. Canopen. EtherCat;
- Base knowledge of data busses architectures, e.g. CAN, SPI and I2C;
- Knowledge of Linux.
- Basic knowledge of ROS;
- Knowledge of Atlassian suite (Jira, Confluence).
- Knowledge of ECSS/NASA standards.
Education:
University degree preferably in the fields of Aerospace/Space Engineering or Robotics/Automation Engineering.
Language:
This role requires professional proficiency in English.
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