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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 SAR performance & ELINT (Electronic Intelligence) Engineer 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:\nA SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar) Performance & Electronic Intelligence (ELINT) Engineer designs, analyses, and evaluates RF payload systems for defence, aerospace, and remote-sensing applications. This role sits at the intersection of active radar imaging (SAR) and passive signal interception (ELINT/SIGINT). On one side activities will be focussed on modelling of end-to-end radar performance, optimization of active SAR imaging algorithms, such as simulation frameworks (MATLAB/Python) to model image resolution, NESZ (Noise Equivalent Sigma Zero), ambiguity ratios (RASR/AASR), dynamic range, and swath width across various operational modes (Spotlight, Stripmap, ScanSAR). On the other side ELINT/SIGINT part will be on digital processing for passive non-communication electronic signals (ELINT) to characterize radar emissions, emitter locations, and threat environments, fox example algorithms for signal detection, pulse sorting (deinterleaving), parameter estimation (PRI, pulse width, carrier frequency), and Direction of Arrival and/or geolocation estimation for non-cooperative radar threats.\nThe candidate will actively perform the following tasks:\nProvide expert technical support and consultancy to ESA projects, programmes and general studies in the field of RF payloads throughout all project phases, specifically for RF, microwave and millimetre-wave remote sensing instruments and payloads;\nContributing to the overall architectural definition, specification, development and verification of future RF, microwave and millimetre-wave remote sensing instruments/payloads, including the assessment of new concepts, signal processing techniques and applications of new technologies;\nAssessing new concepts, architectures, technologies and processing techniques to be applied to the next generation of microwave and millimetre-wave instruments/payloads;\nDefining the technological requirements of microwave and millimetre-wave remote sensing instruments in cooperation with ESA specialists in the various domains;\nParticipating in feasibility studies, project reviews and the evaluation of procurement proposals;\nIdentifying critical development problems and assisting in their resolution;\nContributing to the definition of technology development requirements and work plans for the Agency’s technology programmes in the field of RF, microwave and millimetre-wave remote sensing instruments/payloads;\nDefining, initiating and managing R&D activities covering both long and short-term needs;\nFostering new application areas for multidisciplinary activities, placing emphasis on innovative concepts, cutting-edge technologies and system architectures;\nLaboratory activities as required;\nWhat you offer :\nUniversity Master’s degree in Telecommunications, Electronics or RF/Microwave Engineering.\nStrong background in electromagnetic theory, radar signal propagation, Fourier analysis, and SAR/ELINT principles and electronic warfare.\nExperience in the design, development and verification of synthetic aperture radars, radar altimeters, scatterometers, radiometers or real aperture radars (weather radars and ground-penetrating radars).\nFamiliarity with RF components, FPGA/ASIC architectures, and high-reliability PCB design standards.\nGeneral background and specific experience in the technical domains covered by the position, supporting remote sensing system development, integration and test.\nExperience in the development and verification of space hardware.\nUnderstanding of related technologies, R&D trends and the industrial landscape.\nExperience in the management and monitoring of industrial activities, including participation in reviews.\nThe following are considered important assets:\nSome years of professional experience in the technical domains is required for this position.\nA good knowledge of modern computer systems, simulation, modelling tools and programming languages.\nExperience with Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) techniques applied to radar signal processing, SAR image exploitation, remote sensing, target detection/classification, or ELINT applications is considered a strong 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":6218,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"master","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":["C4ISR","Electronic Warfare","Intelligence"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-15T02:24:22Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":90,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.895,"p_room":1,"age_days":4,"expected_fill_days":33,"reasons":["conf:4","velocity","win:early"],"computed_at":"2026-10-17T05:46:00Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/vitrocisetbelgium-sar-performance-elint-electronic-intelligence-engineer","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/vitrocisetbelgium-sar-performance-elint-electronic-intelligence-engineer.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-18T23:30:51Z","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":26037,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-19T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"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%2Fvitrocisetbelgium-sar-performance-elint-electronic-intelligence-engineer"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"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%2Fvitrocisetbelgium-sar-performance-elint-electronic-intelligence-engineer"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"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%2Fvitrocisetbelgium-sar-performance-elint-electronic-intelligence-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/vitrocisetbelgium-sar-performance-elint-electronic-intelligence-engineer\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fvitrocisetbelgium-sar-performance-elint-electronic-intelligence-engineer"}]}