Ait engineer

Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research

Göttingen, Germany

Your Tasks

As an AIT (Assembly, Integration and Testing) engineer, you will work as part of the engineering and AIT teams on the preparation, coordination and conduction of the thermal vacuum and radiometric calibration test campaigns of the EUVST instrument at MPS. You will work in close collaboration with the project team and external international partners and support all necessary sub-system-level and instrument-level tests and contribute to the necessary documentation. Travelling to support meetings and test activities within Germany and abroad is also part of the work.

Your Qualification

• University degree (Master's) in the area of physics, engineering, or equivalent;
• Substantial working experience in AIT;
• Familiar with the application of ECSS standards;
• Experience working in clean room environments;
• Good knowledge of MS Office;
• Good communication skills;
• Fluency in English is mandatory.

Advantageous would be

• Experience in the area of system engineering;
• Background in the development of space instruments (e.g., mechanical design);
• Experience with environmental testing of space instruments (e.g., TVac);
• Knowledge of LabView or similar software tools;
• Basic knowledge of operating space instruments;
• Basic knowledge of German.