As part of the team you will have the following responsibilities:
- Contribute to all aspects (project internal activities, monitoring/review of the relevant industrial activities, interaction with Mission Users and Scientists) relevant to the mission performance of the mission up to Level 2.
- Maintenance of mission and system level requirements, monitoring and critically analysing the requirement allocation, their flow down to the relevant contributors, the associated margins, their evolution and their verification, in the following areas:
- Observation requirements and mission data products requirements;
- End-to-End simulator and Ground Processor Prototype (GPP);
- Internal and External characterisation and calibration of the instrument;
- Support the payload team for aspects relevant to instrument performance requirements flow-down and instrument performance verification, including relevant models and tools;
- Follow up the End to End Simulator and GPP procurement, verification/validation and acceptance activities;
- Acquire working knowledge of the tools for test data generation purposes and internal mission level verification activities;
- Develop and maintain additional mission performance mathematical models and tools to support the assessment of the relevant industrial development activities;
- Maintain mission level performance and error budgets, and analyse their compliance with the end-to-end mission performance requirements and propose corrective actions in case of deviation;
- Monitor and review the definition and implementation of the characterisation, calibration and validation plans and follow up the specification, procurement and verification/validation of the relevant equipment and activities;
- Support the preparation, execution and analysis of the relevant in-flight CAL/VAL operations during the commissioning phase;
- Support Payload Data Ground Segment (PDGS) development for what concern the Ground processor aspects and cross-verification activities of the PDGS operational ground processor against the GPP;
- Support the running of the Mission Advisory Group (MAG) for what concerns mission & instrument performance aspects, including end-to-end mission performance verification and compliance status;
- Interact with the Mission Users Community and Scientific Community for what concerns Mission definition, Products definition and mission & instrument performance aspects.
- Support the System and Engineering Manager and the other project team members in all aspects related to mission performance, as necessary for the effective execution of the project.
- The Mission Performance Engineer will cooperate closely with the Instrument team in the execution of the relevant tasks. Furthermore she/he will be supported by and is expected to closely cooperate with specialist engineers from the team, from the Earth Observation Projects Department and from the Directorate of Technical and Quality Management (D/TEC) as appropriate