System Engineer Manager

Work Place :
The work place is at the Laboratory of Astrophysics within the astrobots group a highly innovative, multi-disciplinary and stimulating team.

Main duties and responsibilities include :

The primary duties and responsibilities are to manage the system engineering aspects of major astronomical instruments used in optical/near-infrared telescopes. EPFL is involved in the design, procurement, assembly and testing of systems including fiber positioning units, mirror/lenses systems or a combination of both. In particular, EPFL Astrobots group is involved in future projects using miniaturised robots for massive multi-fibers spectroscopy projects (e.g. Megamapper, MUST, WST) and to the novel focal plane system for the MOSAIC instrument for the ELT.

The principal roles of the system engineer manager are:

• Technical lead of the project team and responsible for the monitoring of the technical design work to ensure that all standards, regulations and requirements are being met, this includes the oversight of trade-studies.
• Develop, record, and maintain the system architecture, interface definitions (internal and external), and system level requirements.
• Develop, maintain, and allocate critical technical performance measures (budgets) and flow down these to the various sub-systems and critical system items.
• Review and approve all sub-system and critical item specifications.
• Implement and manage configuration control procedures.
• Ensure that all members of the project team have the information that they need.
• Ensure that the design meets the requirements.
• Arbitrate in technical discussions between the detailed designs.
• Act as an auditor on all risks impacting system performance.
• Define the integration and system qualification process and record this in the instrument Assembly, Integration and Verification (AIV) Plan.
• In conjunction with the project office, agree the formal acceptance test plan and procedures.
• Lead the execution of the formal acceptance test plan.
• Lead the system integration and validation.
• Identify all deviations and non-conformances and work with the project office to ensure that these are addressed appropriately and correctly.

Your profile :
The ideal candidate should hold an HES or EPF degree in System or Microtechnic Engineering with already a few years of experiences.

The required skills are:

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Proven creative and open-minded to seek out solutions and alternatives.
• Excellent organizational skills and attention to details.
• Proven experience of project management.
• Good Knowledge in design and system engineering softwares.
• Good verbal and written English communication skills.

We offer :

• A multicultural and high-quality academic environment
• A good team spirit in a dynamic research group
• Excellent working conditions

Start date :
As soon as 1st of October

Term of employment :
Fixed-term (CDD)

Work rate :
100%

Duration :
Minimum 1 year (renewable)

Remark :
Only candidates who applied through EPFL website or our partner Jobup’s website will be considered. Files sent by agencies without a mandate will not be taken into account.