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Our core business is to work on the ground to build bridges into space, contributing to the success of ambitious missions.\nThe 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.\nTelespazio BeNeLux has an on-site service at ESTEC in the Netherlands, and we are looking for a highly skilled AntennaEngineer to work there.\nCandidates must be eligible for a security personal clearance from an EU Member State national security administration\nWhat is expected from you:\nThe Service Team shall support the Head of the Antennas and Sub-millimeter Waves Section for the following matters:\nContribution to the engineering work in the field of Antennas in support to ESA Projects, which includes: \nSupporting Staff in interfacing with Projects (and Studies). This includes:Providing expertise to support Projects (and Studies) throughout all project phases, for antenna sub-systems;\n Performing and documenting relevant analyses\nSupporting the implementation of industrial project activities;\n\nSupporting and performing “in-house” design and trade-offs to support projectspecific technology developments;\nProviding hands-on antenna modelling and testing support to projects, which will require proper coordination with the corresponding Laboratory Service;\nSupporting and contributing to meetings and reviews.Identification, implementation, validation, and operation of the relevant section tools, which includes:\nProviding expertise related to the software, hardware and data related tools; \nParticipating in the development, validation, deployment and maintenance of relevant internal software tools and databases; Liaising with Technical Responsible for the proper configuration of software / hardware either developed in the service itself or originating from externalactivities.\nOperating the tools for the purpose of supporting Projects or ESA R&D activities.\n\nSupport to Staff in the implementation of R&D activities in the technical domain. This includes: Providing technical inputs to the definition of technology roadmaps and contributing to relevant reviews and meetings;o Monitoring applicable scientific and technological trends and maintaining stateof-the-art expertise in space antenna systems;\n\nProviding inputs to documentation and meetings / reviews, conducting relevant technical analyses;\nContribute to the definition of technical requirements and statements of work for the tasks to be performed by industry from early conceptual studies to full hardware development;\nReviewing output from industry / academia and providing inputs to the ESA Technical representative. This includes - when relevant - the conduction of software or of hardware tests in a Divisional laboratory, which will require proper coordination with the corresponding Laboratory Service.\nSupporting the ESA Technical representative in meeting with industry / academia;\nWhen required, organizing ad hoc meetings with industry / academia and reporting on their outcome to the ESA Technical representative.\nReviewing output from industry / academia and providing inputs to the ESA Technical representative. This includes - when relevant - the conduction of software or of hardware tests in a Divisional laboratory, which will require proper coordination with the corresponding Laboratory Service.\nSupporting the ESA Technical representative in meeting with industry / academia;\nWhen required, organizing ad hoc meetings with industry / academia and reporting on their outcome to the ESA Technical representative.\n\nIn the frame of these functional tasks, technical activities are expected to include:\nAnalysing and characterizing antenna systems as well as of interference effects among antennas and with the spacecraft structure (including mini and Cubesats) or other platform (like aircraft/train/vehicle).\nDesigning, synthesizing, analysing and engineering all antenna (passive and active) sub-systems including e.g. stand-alone radiators, arrays, reflector, lens optics, dichroics and their associated focal plane.\nInterfacing with other sections for structural aspects (e.g. reflection characteristics, impact of manufacturing and thermo-elastic errors) and for sub-system and system aspects.\nDeveloping RF Modelling and design tools for all kind of stand-alone antennas and antenna interactions (e.g. parasitic effect on the radiation performance, coupling among antenna ports, antenna farm analysis, scattering effects,...) for spacecraft (including mini and CubeSats) or other platform (like aircraft/train/vehicle), including advanced techniques (e.g. Machine Learning/Artificial Intelligence techniques, etc.).\nSupporting the testing of the radiative performance of antennas, payloads and instruments both in stand-alone and in relevant environment.\nSupporting the characterization of the RF properties of materials, both at room- and operational-temperature.\nSupporting the involvement in ESA Working Groups, Workshops/Conferences organisation.\nSupporting the technology harmonisation and coordination in the area of Reflector antennas and Array antennas.\nEnsuring operations according to ISO 9001.\nWhat you offer:\nMSc or PhD in Telecommunications or electrical engineering or physics\nVery good knowledge in electromagnetic wave theory\nExperience with antenna architectures and technologies as applied to space\nFamiliarity with antenna Space constraints at RF, mechanical, thermal and environmental levels gained from the handling of Flight Model development or R&D development at high TRL level.\nFamiliarity with antenna industrial design, manufacturing, testing processes, architecture and technologies.\nFamiliarity with antenna modelling tools (e.g. Ticra Tools, Ansys, CST) and programming languages (e.g. Python, Matlab)\nFamiliarity with antenna testing processes and control software design for antenna measurement systems.\nFamiliarity with Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence applied to antennas is considered and asset.\nFamiliarity with high power phenomena applied to antennas\nProject support skills and experience in management of R&D activities is considered an asset.\nWhat we offer:\nA competitive salary\n30 days of paid annual leave, plus the days ESTEC is closed including public holidays (~12 days) based on a 40-hour working week;\nHybrid working scheme (3 days in the office and 2 days remote in the Netherlands)\nOpportunity to telework from abroad\nFlexible working hours; you are in charge of your own agenda respecting core working hours\nFully paid collective extensive health insurance scheme;\nA good pension scheme with no personal contribution;\nA career development (Coursera membership + training budget);\nTravel allowance;\nExtensive relocation package\nWhere:\nYou will be working within ESTEC, the European Space Agency’s offices in the Netherlands as a contractor for Telespazio BeNeLux. 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.\nCheck out the ESTEC site here: esa.int/About_Us/ESTEC\nWhen\nDeadline to apply: ASAP\nPlease note that interviews will be held via Teams.\nWe look forward to receiving your application for this position!","description_format":"text","description_chars":7642,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"phd","optional":false},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Annual leave","Flexible schedule","Health insurance","Hybrid work"],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"Netherlands","iso":"NL","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":true,"industries":["Ground Systems","Space Services"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-11-10T19:05:44Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":86,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.86,"p_room":1,"age_days":0,"expected_fill_days":21,"reasons":["conf:0","win:early"],"computed_at":"2026-11-11T05:49:22Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/vitrociset-belgium-antenna-engineer","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/vitrociset-belgium-antenna-engineer.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-11-11T13:36:08Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":24828,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-11-12T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.1,"usd":0.01,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":4416417},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=4416417"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fvitrociset-belgium-antenna-engineer"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":2,"usd":0.2},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fvitrociset-belgium-antenna-engineer"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.1,"usd":0.01},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fvitrociset-belgium-antenna-engineer"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/vitrociset-belgium-antenna-engineer\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fvitrociset-belgium-antenna-engineer"}],"agent":{"mcp":"https://alion.io/mcp/jobs","mcp_open":"https://alion.io/mcp/open","next":[{"tool":"get_job","arguments":{"id":4032565}},{"tool":"search_jobs","arguments":{"company":"vitrocisetbelgium.com","detail":"compact"}},{"tool":"match_people","arguments":{"job_id":4032565},"note":"people open to offers who fit this vacancy"}],"note":"The same data through MCP tools: https://alion.io/mcp/open needs no sign-in (compact searches, postings, people); https://alion.io/mcp with an Alion account has everything. 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