Payload Calibration & Validation Engineer

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About Aerospacelab

Our mission is supported by an ambitious vertically integrated approach: design & manufacture of small satellites combined with development of earth observation services.

Since its creation in 2018, the company has already grown substantially. Our team gathers more than 25 engineering expertise, from hardware design to software development & data science.

In 2026, Aerospacelab counts offices in Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium), Toulouse (France), Lausanne (Switzerland) and US West Coast with more than 450 full-time employees, with the ambition to position itself as the European leader in small satellites.

Your mission

Define and run calibration activities for our imaging payloads, covering radiometric calibration, geometric and geolocation accuracy, and image quality verification.
Plan and run ground calibration campaigns using reference targets, and analyze image quality metrics.
Support in-orbit commissioning and build tools to monitor product quality over the mission lifetime.
Work closely with the processing and system teams to feed calibration results back into the processing chain.

What we are looking for

An MSc or PhD in electrical engineering, physics, remote sensing, or a related field.
Hands-on experience with satellite or airborne imaging data and a solid grasp of signal and image processing.
Strong Python skills for data analysis and tooling.
Rigor and a taste for chasing down small discrepancies until they make sense.