Optical Earth Observation Engineer

A great opportunity for a remote sensing or earth observation professional or researcher, with knowledge of satellite Earth observation (EO) data systems and processing, to join our UK team.

Objective

To contribute to operational and science-based services and system developments for national, and international, based EO programmes.

Responsibilities/ Duties

The successful candidate will be expected to;

Support services to ESA included within the Third Party and Heritage Mission element of the Instrument Data quality Evaluation and Analysis service (IDEAS-QA4EO) and Earthnet Data Assessment Project (EDAP+)

Interact with expert customers on mission data issues

Identify and investigate quality issues and anomalies

Research and respond to technical user queries

Maintain quality control tools and scripts used locally

Prepare posters, publications and presentations at meetings/ conferences

Carry out occasional travel to customer sites

Contribute to technical proposal authoring, to win new work

University degree/MSc (or equivalent) in Geography, Physics, Remote Sensing or a related discipline.

Experience/Understanding, in either an industrial or academic setting;

Supporting operational processing systems for EO data (e.g. level '1' to level '2' and 'level 3' processing)

Working with Optical earth observation data specifically Landsat, Proba-1, JERS-1 and New Space missions (e.g. Planet)

Using and adapting tools for remote sensing data manipulation

Essential Skills

Understanding of EO data processing levels

Understanding of instrument calibration principles (e.g. geometric, radiometric, spectral, etc)

Data handling and manipulation

Technical document authoring

Qualities

Comfortable in a (scientific) customer facing role

Self-motivated and creative individual, actively seeking opportunities for the business

Positive, "can-do" approach

Willingness to adapt role to meet current needs

Encouraging and supportive of team co-workers

Competitive Package, including private healthcare, excellent pension, generous holiday allowance, and open hybrid working environment., Competitive Package covering salary, generous holiday allowance, training plan and more

Security

In line with Asylum & Immigration Legislation, all applicants must be eligible to live and work in the EU, or UK (as applicable). Documented evidence of eligibility will be required from candidates as part of the recruitment process. Furthermore, in view of the nature of the work the company is in, all potential employees will undergo stringent reference and identity checks.