LocationESAC, Villanueva de la Cañada, Spain Description
The European Space Agency maintains a world-leading Science Programme with missions in heliophysics, planetary science, astrophysics and fundamental physics. Its mission is to empower Europe to lead space science. The Science Operations Department (SCI-S) within ESA’s Directorate of Science hosts the scientists and engineers that oversee the space missions from the study phase to the end of operations. It develops the science operation systems for the missions and operates the missions in space, as well as archiving and curating their data during operations and beyond. Its main objective is to maximise the scientific output of the missions for the benefit of humankind.You will be assigned as Science Operations Scientist, initially for the Arrakihs mission under the direct responsibility of the Science Operations Development Manager for Arrakihs in the Science Operations Development Division.Arrakihs is a “Fast” (F-class) mission in ESA’s Science Programme.



Its primary objective is to image the halos of galaxies in our nearby Universe to unprecedented low surface brightness, providing crucial data to answer unsolved questions in cosmology and galaxy evolution. Arrakihs is targeted for launch in the early 2030s.Duties
You will be responsible for various aspects of the definition, implementation and testing of science operations activities for the Arrakihs mission, working in close collaboration with the Project Scientist, the Archive Scientist and the Science Operations Centre (SOC) Team and interfacing with the Instrument Operations and Science Data Centre (IOSDC) Team from the Arrakihs mission consortium.During the development phase of the mission, your tasks and responsibilities will include:

acting as an interface between the Science Operations Centre, the Payload Team, the Flight Control Team and the Instrument Operations and Science Data Centre Team for the Arrakihs mission;
contributing to the overall gr

📌 Science Operations Scientist (Villanueva de la Cañada)
🏢 Esa
📍 Villanueva de la Cañada