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XMM/INTEGRAL Instrument Operations Engineer

Leonardo
Location 📍 Darmstadt, Germany
Posted 📅 June 03, 2026
Work Type ⏰ Full time

Position Overview

Job Description:

Telespazio Germany is looking to complement their current Astronomical Missions Operations team with additional engineering support, delivering services to ESA/ESOC for the XMM & INTEGRAL missions.

Key Responsibilities

To take over existing operations instrument activities, currently provided by ESAC and integrate them into the FCT at ESOC.
• maintain the instrument procedures (develop, change & test)
• maintain the instrument database (develop, change & test)
• perform instrument anomaly recoveries
• perform special operations support for instruments (eclipse operations, and development of automation activities to streamline the work of the Real-Time-Operations team
• support the calibration and mission planning teams at ESAC for operations
• provision of On-call support 
• Execute real-time payload operations 
• Perform maintenance of instruments and observing modes
• Perform maintenance of the in...

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Job Details

Employment Type
Full time
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Category
Engineers
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Work Arrangement
On-site
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Location
Darmstadt, Germany