Who we are:

For more than 70 years, NATO’s mission has been to preserve peace and security in the Alliance for nearly one billion citizens. The NATO Communications and Information Agency (NCIA) and its predecessors have worked tirelessly in providing the means that enable the connectedness and togetherness that keep our Alliance strong. We are the NCIA, a team of 3000 civilian and military staff in 29 locations throughout Europe, North America and Asia.

Our technology and cyber experts allow NATO to conduct critical operations, protect NATO’s airspace, make data-driven decisions, defend against cyber-attacks, secure NATO networks and maintain superiority in space. This is all possible because of our greatest force, our people. In order to keep this edge we aim to hire, train and retain the very best staff.

Our staff members represent both the diversity and unity of our Alliance. When you join the NCIA, you will be part of an organization where you can contribute authentically to the mission and purpose of NATO and help us keep our technological edge.

About the job:

Based in The Hague, Netherlands, you will join the Agency as we embark on a journey to transform our IT services to support NATO’s Digital Endeavour. You will join The Joint Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Centre (JISRC). JISRC’s vision is to assure information superiority for NATO. Its Mission is to deliver, support and protect valued ISR capabilities, expertise and services and to maximise operational effectiveness for NATO through a wide range of coherent JISR services, supported by well-trained, highly knowledgeable and uniquely experienced staff, in four key JISR domains: Intelligence Applications, Operational ISR Support, Electronic Warfare/Surveillance Services and Geospatial/Meteorological/Oceanographic Information Services. JISRC is responsible for the full lifecycle of its services.

We are looking for a driven and enthusiastic ISR Engineer who will take on the following roles and responsibilities:

• Follow agreed standards and apply appropriate techniques to elicit and document detailed system requirements for ISR sensors;

• Participate in requirement, design and specification reviews and uses this information to design or validate test plans and test condition;

• Investigate/facilitate the use of big data management techniques, automation and Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) capabilities to enable NATO to efficiently process, analyse and classify vast amounts of ISR Sensor data;

• Support the development of Invitation for Bid by contributing to ISR Sensor Requirement Specifications and assessing Bidders’ proposals;

• Support projects’ implementation by reviewing contractual technical documentation, performing tests and validations.

For a full list of duties, please review the job description on the NCIA career site.

About you:

The valuable knowledge and experience that you bring to this role are:

• Bachelor’s degree at a nationally recognised/certified University in a sensors related discipline and 2 years post-related experience. Or exceptionally, the lack of a university degree may be compensated by the demonstration of a candidate’s particular abilities or experience that is/are of interest to NCIA, that is, at least 6 years extensive and progressive expertise in duties related to the function of the post;

• Recent extensive experience (at least two years) in the ISR Sensor area within NATO or a comparable multinational or national position. This experience should include working with ISR Sensors, such as Radars, Electro Optical or Infrared (EO/IR) cameras, Radiofrequency Passive Detection and Direction Finding Sensors;

• At least two years of experience and ability to demonstrate familiarity with electromagnetics, radiofrequencies and signal processing technologies and testing and verification of these systems;

• Recent experience (within the past five years) in the development of policies, standard operating procedures, and/or capturing user requirements related to capability development;

• Experience in software defined radio (SDR) technologies and knowledge of programming languages such as Python, Matlab and C;

• Fluency in English, both written and spoken.

What we offer:

• Genuinely meaningful work as part of the most successful alliance in history;

• 5 year contract with competitive tax-free salary and household and children’s allowances;

• Privileges for expatriate staff including expatriation and education allowances (where appropriate) and additional home leave;

• Excellent private health insurance scheme;

• Generous annual leave of 30 days plus official holidays;

• NATO Pension Scheme;

• Development programs such as professional training, wellbeing, and more.

To learn more about NCIA and our work, please visit our website.

The NCIA prides itself on being an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to fostering an inclusive environment of mutual respect and value uniqueness and differences in gender, gender identity, race, ethnic or cultural origin, age, religion, sexual orientation and physical or neurocognitive ability.

Additional details on the conditions of application can be found via the NCIA career site.