Optical & Quantum Communication System Engineer [26027]

Job description

Company Description HE Space is a successful international space company, specialised in providing managed services and human resources to the international space sector for over 40 years. We hire space experts all over Europe across the whole spectrum of space-related activities, from engineering to science, software development, operations, marketing, finance and administration. Our employees contribute towards a wide range of groundbreaking space programmes including Galileo and Copernicus, ExoMars, LISA Pathfinder, Euclid, the Ariane and Vega launchers as well as the International Space Station. HE Space has joined forces with CS Group and Sopra Steria to lead the engineering and digital space market in Europe and to provide highly skilled consulting. We are passionate about people and invest in you to support the development of the European space industry. Job Description: As part of the team you will have the following responsibilities: - Define end‑to‑end quantum communication system architectures (e.g., QKD links, quantum repeater concepts, space‑to‑ground links). - Translate mission, security, and performance requirements (SKR, QBER, link budget) into subsystem specificati...