Open Positions

POSITION ID BO-01

Description

We are adding a Board to the team structure this year! We are looking for motivated students to fill in its very important positions and to support Lunar Zebro’s Management in the steering of the team. Composed of 5 students, the Board meets frequently to discuss the day-to-day and week-by-week tasks of the whole team and ensure its proper functioning. The Board also meets the Management team on a regular basis to ensure that Lunar Zebro stays on-time and puts its efforts in the right tasks.

Among the Board members, the following positions are still open:

• Commissioner of Internal Affairs, who is in charge of keeping the team running smoothly, be it from a logistical or a human resources point of view. An essential role. especially for a Moon mission.
• Commissioner of Public Outreach, who organises Lunar Zebro’s online presence and external events, both essential for attracting new students as well as getting the industry involved in the project.
• Treasurer, who controls the team’s expenditures and coordinates with the Management the budget for the team’s lunar ambitions.
• Secretary, who is in close contact with all other Board members to ensure all required administrative tasks are completed efficiently, perhaps by improving the current system.

If you have always wanted to join a Board, or dreamt of participating in a major way to a Moon mission, then do apply for the Lunar Zebro Board!

Requirements

• Being a TU Delft student is required.
• Minimum education level: 2nd year bachelor student at the TU Delft

Job type
Part-time or Full-time (min. 10h/week)

Period
Start September 2023 (for at least one year)

Location
Delft, Netherlands

 POSITION ID NTP-01

Description

Nothing is more important in a team than to ensure its proper functioning, especially for a team building a device that goes on the Moon! Therefore, we are looking for students to reinforce the Internal-Affairs Commission.

Within the commissions your tasks could vary from organising the team bonding events and recruitments, to managing the logistics of our space-grade components or ensuring the team has the required financial support. If this seems interesting to you and if you are ready to form the backbone of the team designing the first Dutch Moon rover, then do apply!

Requirements

• Being a TU Delft student is preferred but not required.
• Minimum education level: 2nd year bachelor student
• Experience in Human resource management is appreciated, but not mandatory.

Job type
Part-time (min. 10h/week)

Period
Start September 2023 (at least one year)

Location
Delft, Netherlands

POSITION ID NTP-02

Description

A Space Mission – and especially one going to the Moon – requires great public outreach to spark the interest of the general public, recruit new students and accelerate key partnerships within the industry! For this, we are looking to reinforce the Public Outreach Commission with creative and enthusiastic students from various backgrounds.

Within the Commission, you could either specialise in what you already master, or gain experience in fields you domains always wanted to explore further. The skills sought after are amongst other:

• Content Creation
• Writing of articles/blogs/posts/stories
• Graphic Design.
• Filming and/or Video-Editing
• Podcasting and/or Audio-Editing
• 3D modelling and rendering
• 2D/3D animation
• VR/AR animation

With this list being non-extensive, you can come up with any other ideas that you may have! The main message is that if you want to participate in the creation of a Space mission’s public image, then do apply!

Requirements

• Preferred minimum education level: 2nd-year bachelor student at University or HBO
• Knowledge of the required quality software for your field of expertise (Adobe Suite for graphic designers, Blender or other tools for 3D rendering, etc) is not necessary, but would be a plus.

Job type
Part time (min. 10h/week)

Period
Start September 2023 (at least one year)

Location
Delft, Netherlands

POSITION ID NTP-03

Description

As partnerships coordinator you will be responsible for:

– Collaborate in and attend Lunar Zebro events. Participation includes pre-event efforts working closely with the Public Relations department, to secure partner participation and marketing of the event to appropriate audiences, support the day-of activities and complete follow-up tasks.
– Maintain timely, accurate and thorough documentation of all activities, tasks, contacts and account management.
– Authentically project and reflect Lunar Zebro’s mission and vision.
– Organise meetings and calls with the partners to foster relationships and ensure strong co-operation.
– Deliver partners sponsorship rights and activation programs.
– Secure new funding.
– Develop deep partnerships and pipeline to increase Lunar Zebro’s reach and impact within organizations.
– Demonstrate thoughtful and appropriate time management in extending the vision, strategies and tactics required for sustained partnership and their engagement and implementation.

Requirements

– Candidate must be studying in TU Delft to be eligible for the position.
– Experience in public relations and business networks is desirable.
– A good ability to understand the technical and financial needs of the project, and subsequently be able to match those needs with possible industry partners who can deliver on that.
– Good networking skills and good communication skills.
– Candidate should be able to find contacts and approach organizations for possible partnership opportunities.
– An ability to present the project and him/herself in a confident and convincing manner.
– Willingness to follow through on tasks promptly and stay in close contact with partners via phone/email.
– Comfortable with doing video/audio interviews.
– Good written and spoken English. Written and spoken Dutch is desirable
– Negotiation – can negotiate and influence skilfully and professionally while maintaining relationships.
– Initiative – Self directed with a strong bias for action and results, displays keen interest in Lunar Zebro’s mission and vision while representing it.

Job type
Part time (min. 12h/week including 8 hours in daytime)

Start dat
Start September 2023 (at least one year)

Location
Delft, Netherlands

POSITION ID SS-01

Description

As a systems engineer, you will design and manage the structure of the project. Good integration of the different departments is crucial for the proper functioning of the project.

Requirements

• Minimum education level: 2nd year bachelor student at University or HBO
  

Position type
Part-time (min. 10h/week) or Full-time

Period
Start September 2023 (at least one year)

Location
Delft, Netherlands

POSITION ID GS – 01

Description

You will be part of a multidisciplinary Ground Segment team to help implement and test its design.
In your role, you will cover:

• Selection of and communication with different Ground Stations across the globe
• Assistance in setting up and testing the Ground Segment software and hardware
• Preparation of a Mission Operation plan
• …and much more!
  

Requirements

• Minimum education level: 2nd-year bachelor student at University or HBO
• Interest in researching into Mission Operation and Radio communication protocols
• Coding experience is appreciated

Position type
Part time (min. 10h/week) or Full-time

Period
Start September 2023 (at least one year)

Location
Delft, Netherlands

POSITION ID TE-01

Description

• In charge of the logistics of testing in the test bed
• Technical knowledge of test bed design and operations
• Talking to partners/clients in acquiring materials (such as lunar regolith)
• Aid professors in Mechanical Engineering doing research with the testbed
• Help test engineers do locomotion testing with the Zebro

Requirements

• Minimum education level: 2nd year bachelor student at TU Delft
• Excellent organizational and long-term planning skills
• Able to take initiative and be creative with solutions to problems
• Eagerness to learn and an enthusiasm for space

Position type
Part-time (min. 10h/week) or Full-time

Period
Start September 2023 (at least one year)

Location
Delft, Netherlands

POSITION ID STR-01

Description
As a thermal engineer, you will work with your colleagues to

• Create thermal models of the rover
• Work with the testing team to create test procedures for TVAC testing
• Design solutions to thermal problems found in models or testing
  

Requirements

• Minimum education level: 2nd-year bachelor student
• Knowledge of space thermal control systems
• Able to take the initiative and communicate with colleagues
• Good at working in a multi-disciplinary group
• Enthusiasm to work on a space project
• Knowledge of ESATAN-TMS is highly appreciated
• Knowledge of analytical thermal networks is highly appreciated

Position type
Part time (min. 10h/week) or Full-time

Period
Preferably 1 academic year (6 months minimum)

Location
Delft, Netherlands

POSITION ID SOF-01

Description

The task will be writing the embedded C++ code for one of the subsystems of Lunar Zebro:
– ST-COM-01: Communications programming
– ST-CDHS-01: Payload programming
– ST-CDHS-02: Power Processing Unit (PPU) programming
– ST-CDHS-03: On-Board Computer (OBC) programming
– ST-CDHS-04: Diagnostics programming
– ST-CDHS-05: Locomotion programming
– ST-CDHS-06: Sensors programming
– ST-CDHS-07: Umbilical cord programming

Requirements

• Minimum education level: 3rd year bachelor student at University or HBO
• Experience with designing and developing (large-scale) software systems on C++ (equivalent to minimum 1 year full time programming experience)
• Good working knowledge of Linux systems including socket programming, timers and multi-threading
• Good knowledge and experience about data communication protocols such as RS-422, USB, UART, SPI/I2C
• Experience/Knowledge of testing frameworks such as Google Test (https://github.com/google/googletest)
• Experience with working with Git
• A plus if experienced with a software development life cycle
  

Position type
Part-time (min. 10h/week) or Full-time

Period
Start September 2023 (at least one year)

Location
Delft, Netherlands

POSITION ID NAV-01, NAV-02, or NAV-03:

• ST-NAV-01: Navigation – RGB Camera – Obstacle detection
• ST-NAV-02: Navigation – Path planning
• ST-NAV-03: Navigation – RGB Camera programming

Description

You will be supporting the navigation software development team in the development of the object recognition and avoidance, navigation, and swarm algorithms using sensor fusion (camera, IMU, and LiDAR).

Requirements

• Minimum education level: 1st year MSc student from AE, EEMCS or 3ME.
• Experience with designing and developing software systems on Python and C/C++
• Experience with Artificial Intelligence
• Experience with sensor fusion and navigation
• Experience with git and scrum

Position type
Part time (min. 10h/week) or Full-time

Period
Start September 2023 (at least one year)

Location
Delft, Netherlands

POSITION ID ELE-01

Description
You will join the Electronics department of Lunar Zebro. You will help with the design, production and testing of the terrestrial and lunar rover.

Requirements

• Minimum education level: 2nd-year Electrical Engineering Bachelor student at University or HBO
• Analog electronics design
• Testing PCBs
• PCB design. Although, if you have no experience with designing PCBs and want to learn it you are still very much welcome to apply
• Soldering

Position type
Part time (min. 10h/week) or Full-time

Period
Start September 2023 (at least one year)

Location
Delft, Netherlands

POSITION ID RD-01

Description
As a rover deployment engineer, you will work on the design and prototyping of a deployment box for the Lunar Zebro. This system has to protect the rover during transit and safely deliver it to the lunar surface.

Requirements

• Preferred education level: 3rd-year Bachelor student at University or HBO
• System design mindset
• Some experience with mechanical design

Position type
Part time (min. 10h/week) or Full-time

Period
Start September 2023 (at least one year)

Location
Delft, Netherlands

JOB ID THE-01

Description The Lunar Zebro main scientific payload is a radiation monitor which will measure the ionizing dose rate on the Moon Surface. The compact instrument is based on Floating Gate Dosimeter (FGDOS) sensors. A preliminary design of the payload has been finalized and it is currently undergoing the first characterization campaign at the proton facility HollandPTC in Delft. In this thesis the characterization of the payload will be extended by using different radiation sources like Co60 and the mixedfield environment provided by the CHARM facility at CERN (Geneva). The data will be analyzed and a second iteration of the design will be carried out in order to include the lessons learned from the functional, environmental and calibration campaigns.

Job type
Thesis

Faculty
Aerospace Engineering

Location
Delft, Netherlands

JOB ID THE-02

Description The Lunar Zebro main scientific payload is a radiation monitor which will measure the ionizing dose rate on the Moon Surface. The compact instrument is based on Floating Gate Dosimeter (FGDOS) sensors. A preliminary design of the payload has been finalized and it is currently undergoing the first characterization campaign at the proton facility HollandPTC in Delft. In this thesis a Monte Carlo simulation (based on FLUKA or Geant4) will be developed and the expected measurements will be generated in different environments including the calibration campaign and the space mission scenarios. The calibration data will be used for validation of the Monte Carlo model. Recommendations for the second generation payload will be derived by the simulation outputs and feed to the engineering team working on the payload design.

Job type
Thesis

Faculty
Applied Sciences

Location
Delft, Netherlands

JOB ID THE-03

Description
As a faculty project, Lunar Zebro is constantly seeking new students keen on doing their thesis on a real Moon rover. Our team and accompanying professors create opportunities for research in all possible domains: from science to engineering and more. If you have spotted an area that could be researched in muc detail, or if you are interested in knowing more about the thesis options, don’t hesitate to apply!

Requirements
BSc, MSc or PhD student, at the research phase of their studies

Job type
Thesis

Period
TBD

Location
Delft, Netherlands