Open Positions

  POSITION ID BO-02

Description
As Peoject Leader, you will be chairing the Board. This means that you create a plan for the year alongside with all the members of the Board, monitoring the teams progress and reporting to Management. Other tasks that the Project Leader needs to achieve is organising Crew Meetings and ensuring that the team has sufficient advisor support.

Requirements

• Experience with space systems
• Communication skills and critical thinking
• Motivational and organisational mindset
• Finished 2nd year of Bachelor

Job type
Full-time (40h/week)

Period
Preferably at the start of the academic year. Minimum of 1 year. 

Location
Delft, Netherlands

  POSITION ID BO-01

Description
As Chief Engineer, you will be involved with all aspects of the mission, while also being part of the Board. You will oversee the progress of every subsystem and ensure the quality of the integrated lunar rover design.

Requirements

• Systems Engineering experience
• Experience with space systems
• Communication skills and critical thinking
• Finished 3rd year of Bachelor (Aerospace Engineering is preferred)

Job type
Full-time (40h/week)

Period
Preferably at the start of the academic year. Minimum of 1 year. 

Location
Delft, Netherlands

  POSITION ID BO-03

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! As Internal Affairs Commissioner, you will manage the team’s Human Resources. You will update and maintain streamlined recruitment, onboarding and offboarding procedures, as well as encourage team integrity through events, activities etc.

Requirements

• Being a TU Delft student is preferred but not required.
• Finished 1st year of Bachelor
• Experience in Human resource management (preferred)

Job type
Part-time (12h/week)

Period
Preferably at the start of the academic year. Minimum of 1 year. 

Location
Delft, Netherlands

JOB ID OPS-01

Description
This volunteer function will entail the organization of Lunar Zebro’s financial systems. 

Requirements
– Minimum education level: 2nd year bachelor student at University or HBO
– Good mathematical skills and honesty
– Knowledge of excel
– TU Delft student

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

Period
Preferably at the start of the academic year. Minimum of 1 year. 

Location
Delft, Netherlands

a  POSITION ID BO-04

Description
Head of Logistics is a position that deal with tasks of logistical and financial nature. This includes but is not restricted to managing the wide and expensive inventory of the team, making major orders for the team and acquiring licenses for the team members. Another major task of the Head of Logistics is making sure the members follow documentation guidelines and giving them access to the required software packages.

Requirements

• Experience with logistics, documentation and/or software support.
• Accomplisher mindset
• Communication skills
• Finished 1st year Bachelor

Job type
Part-time (12h/week)

Period
Preferably at the start of the academic year. Minimum of 1 year. 

Location
Delft, Netherlands

  POSITION ID BO-05

Description
A proper exposure is crucial for the progress and success of our mission. As Public Outreach Commissioner, you will form a strategy for promoting Lunar Zebro to the general public and potential partners. In addition, you will oversee and review the work of the Public Outreach Commission as a whole.

Requirements

• Public Relations experience
• Communication skills and critical thinking
• Part-time availability
• Experience in a student team and/or company
• Finished 2nd year Bachelor (Recommended)

Job type
Part-time (20h/week)

Period
Preferably at the start of the academic year. Minimum of 1 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 2024 (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 date
Start September 2024 (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
Minimum duration 6 months. Preferred start at beginning of academic quarter. 

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
Minimum duration 6 months. Preferred start at beginning of academic quarter. 

Location
Delft, Netherlands

POSITION ID STR-02

Description
As a mechanics engineer you will look into the physical design of the body of the rover. You will design new components or make edits to the existing designs. You will help prepare for the assembly and manufacturing. Next to this you will attend the weekly meetings and document your work.

Requirement

• Minimum education level: 2nd-year bachelor student at University or HBO
  
• Able to take the initiative and communicate with colleagues
• Good at working in a multi-disciplinary group
• Enthusiasm to work on a space project

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

Period
Minimum duration 6 months. Preferred start at beginning of academic quarter. 

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: 2nd 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-485, 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
Minimum duration 6 months. Preferred start at beginning of academic quarter. 

Location
Delft, Netherlands

POSITION ID SOF-02

Description

This position is closely related to the Embedded Software Engineer. However, everyday tasks revolve around fields such as object detection, navigation and camera calibration. Thus, requirements differ for this position too.

Requirements

• Minimum education level: 2nd year bachelor in Computer Science, (Applied) Mathematics, Aerospace Engineering or similar relevant studies
• Experience with Python and/or C(++) 
• Analytical skillset and problem-solving attitude where you are able to do research and document your findings
• Experience with Git (preferred)

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

Period
Minimum duration 6 months. Preferred start at beginning of academic quarter. 

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
Minimum duration 6 months. Preferred start at beginning of academic quarter. 

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
Minimum duration 6 months. Preferred start at beginning of academic quarter. 

Location
Delft, Netherlands

JOB ID SOF-02

Description
You will be part of a multidisciplinary Ground Segment team to develop and deploy a massive micro-service web system onto the cloud. You will:

• Develop and architect together with other engineers:
  • Mission Control System
  • Data Retrieval System
  • Frontend application that interacts with the backend
• Deploy the applications onto the cloud
• Continuously test your implementation
• Collaboratively review code
• Create and prioritize requirements
  

Requirements

• Minimum education level: 2nd-year bachelor student at University or HBO
• Experience with designing and developing software systems in JavaScript/TypeScript, Go, Java and/or Python.
• Experience with backend frameworks like Node.js, Django, Flask and/or Golang.
• Experience with frontend frameworks like React.
• Good working knowledge of Linux systems
•  Experience/Knowledge of software testing
• Experience with working with Git
• Experience with a software development life cycle
• A plus if experienced with Docker, CI/CD, Kubernetes, AWS (or any other cloud technologies)

Job type
Part time (min. 8h/week)

Period
Minimum duration 6 months. Preferred start at beginning of academic quarter. 

Location
Delft, Netherlands

JOB ID AIT-01

Description

An AIT engineer has several areas of responsibility. They are first and foremost responsible for creating and performing test procedures according to (sub)system requirements and international standards. These tests range from small functional tests done in-house to bigger environmental tests at our partners’ facilities. This can also include using Lunar Zebro’s own testbed for simulating the lunar mission or analysing test results to find points of improvement in the design. They are also responsible for the assembly of the rover, for instance through making sure new designs fit, integrate with other components, and are easy to assemble.

Requirements

– 2nd-year Bachelor student in an engineering discipline, or higher

– Good knowledge in programming for data analysis (Python or similar) or eager to improve

– Able to take initiative and be creative with finding solutions

– Good at working in a multi-disciplinary group and communicating ideas and findings

Job type
Part time (12h to 16h/week)

Period
Minimum duration 6 months. Preferred start at beginning of academic quarter. 

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 or MSc at the research phase of their studies

Job type
Thesis

Period
TBD

Location
Delft, Netherlands

JOB ID – INT-02

Description
Lunar Zebro needs dedicated engineers to develop, test and evalutate our rover’s subsystems. Due to the wide range of such topics, this application is open. This means that in case you meet the requirements listed below and are interested in designing a lunar rover, you can contact us directly.

Requirements
– 3rd year student or higher at a university of applied sciences (HBO) or at an academic university (WO)
– Experience in the field that you would like to work on
– Eagerness to learn
– Good English communication skills

Job type
Internship

Period
6 months

Location
Delft, Netherlands