Jan Hildebrand

Developing Software for Satellites at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) | TUM - M.Sc. Electrical Engineering and Information Technology

Munich, Bavaria, Germany

About

Embedded Software Engineer for Optical Laser Terminals in CubeSats and Mid-Sized Satellites | Passionate about Space, Electronics and Offshore Sailing

Experience

  • Embedded Systems Engineer - Optical Satellite Links at Deutsches Zentrum für Luft-und Raumfahrt e.V.
    Jan 2025 - Present · 1 yr 7 mos

    Research and Development of Embedded Systems for Optical Satellite Communication - Analysis and definition of software system architectures for satellite missions - Development, implementation, testing, and evaluation of new software components and interfaces for free-space optical (FSO) laser communication terminals in CubeSats

  • Deutsches Zentrum für Luft-und Raumfahrt e.V. (1 yr 10 mos)
    • Master Thesis - Optical Satellite Links
      May 2024 - Oct 2024 · 6 mos

      Real-Time Processing of Forward Error Correction Coding for High-Datarate Free-Space Optical Satellite Communication on a Commercial Off-The-Shelf System on Chip

    • Working Student - Optical Satellite Links
      Jan 2023 - Apr 2024 · 1 yr 4 mos

      Embedded Systems Engineering for CubeSats

  • Working Student - RF Power Sensors at Rohde & Schwarz
    Mar 2021 - Oct 2021 · 8 mos

    Software Development in Python

  • Bachelor Thesis - Hardware Security at Fraunhofer AISEC
    Apr 2020 - Sep 2020 · 6 mos

    Side channel attacks on a neural network hardware accelerator

  • Working Student - Galileo System Performance at Airbus Defence and Space
    Apr 2019 - Feb 2020 · 11 mos

    Clock drift prediction of atomic satellite clocks: - Prediction model definition and implementation in Python - Performance assessment with data from the in-orbit Galileo constellation Tropospheric signal delay correction: - developement of a tropospheric delay calculation Python package - calculation of wet and hydrostatic delay based on the ESA Galileo Tropospheric Correction Model - Unit testing with PyTest