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GNSS Engineer
October 09, 2025

GNSS Engineer - (F/M)


Created in 2009, ESSP is a young and dynamic company, a pan European service provider, certified by EASA (the European Union Aviation Safety Agency) to deliver safety-critical services. Our mission is to operate and provide Communication, Navigation and Surveillance (CNS) services, among which, the main one is, the EGNOS service (the European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service), on behalf of the EUSPA (the European Agency for Space).

ESSP Corporate Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_FKtcaN8YE 

ESSP Website career: https://www.essp-sas.eu/human-resources/careers/

We are looking for a GNSS Engineer who will be in charge of the support provided for recurrent activities in EDAS (EGNOS Data Access Service), NOTAM (Notice to Airmen) and MSI (Maritime Safety Information) operations in the scope of EGNOS or other ESSP programs like IRIS. For these activities, we are looking for someone with at least 3 years’ experience in GNSS sector and software development background/experience, with a very good level of English (minimum B2).

Your main responsibilities/activities will be:

- Support to the operation, monitoring, maintenance and evolution of EDAS, NOTAM and MSI services,
- Contribution to the production of the service provision Operations and Maintenance baseline and contingency baseline,
- Maintenance and evolution of scripts used to support the recurrent activities in EDAS, NOTAM and MSI operations,
- Support to software development activities as needed according to service/business needs.
- Support to the EGNOS Multimodal Adoption plan and/or Customer/User Satisfaction actions assigned to the Customer and Data Services team (mainly EDAS and NOTAM/MSI related).
- Contribution to research/promotion initiatives within the Customer and Data Services team scope (articles, papers).

Profile:

- Technical background in SW and HW (development. evolution and maintenance activities).
- Experience in GNSS and SBAS including common protocols/formats for streaming of GNSS data.
- Project management
- User and customer oriented.
- Security knowledge is a plus.
- Team player spirit.
- Autonomy and ability to assume responsibilities.
- Good capacity of analysis and synthesis.
- Initiative spirit.
- Good communication and negotiation skills.
- Good English Level (B2) - CECRL.

Job Requirements:

- Engineering degree or equivalent
- Available for regular travels mainly in Europe

Human Resources information:
- 1st interview is held by the direct manager of the position you applied for (technical interview)
- 2nd interview is held by HR department

Element of package of remuneration:
- Variable: bonuses based on objectives
- Teleworking: up to 3 days/week
- Health insurance, Life Insurance
- Saving plan
- Tickets Restaurant
- Sustainable Mobility Package: Home/Office travels reimbursement if car sharing or bicycling
- 29 holidays (for full time year)

Please send your application file only by e-mail to the following address: recrut@essp-sas.eu

Job Location: Madrid (Spain)

Type of Contract: Full time - Permanent Contract

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