VN 26/01 Remote Sensing Scientist – Optical Cloud Imaging
European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT)
Full-time Closing soon: 1 Mar 2026
The Remote Sensing and Products (RSP) Division is tasked with providing the scientific expertise required to develop, implement, validate, maintain and evolve the operational observational products for all EUMETSAT satellites and agreed third party missions, as well as establishing the user requirements for future EUMETSAT satellite programmes.
With the recent launches of the EPS-Second Generation (EPS-SG) and Meteosat Third Generation (MTG) satellites, EUMETSAT has a new generation of space capabilities to observe the Earth-Atmosphere system able to observe the cloud optical properties and use them to retrieve a suite of cloud products and cloud properties. Other space missions also operated by EUMETSAT, such as the Copernicus missions, will contribute to this network of cloud observations.
Within the Clouds and Aerosols Competence Area (ClA-CA) of the Remote Sensing and Products Division (RSP), the Remote Sensing Scientist – Optical Cloud Imaging will be responsible for product development in the area of cloud and lightning detection, cloud microphysical properties, cloud analysis and other atmospheric products derived from visible and infrared imagery (e.g. water vapour and precipitation), focusing EUMETSAT’s next generation Meteosat Third Generation (MTG) and EPS-Second Generation (EPS-SG) satellite systems.
The main duties will be as follows:
Advanced university degree or equivalent in remote sensing of atmospheric composition parameters, meteorology, physics or another relevant discipline.
The official languages of EUMETSAT are English and French. Candidates must be able to work effectively in English and have some knowledge of French.
2 March 2026
The main duties will be as follows:
The initial contract will be of 4 years’ duration, with subsequent 5 year contracts being awarded thereafter, subject to individual performance and organisation requirements. There is no limit to the amount of follow-up contracts a staff member can receive up to the EUMETSAT retirement age of 63 and there are certainly opportunities to establish a long career perspective at EUMETSAT.
This post is graded A2/A4 on the EUMETSAT salary scales. The minimum basic salary for this post is EURO 7553.5 per month (net of internal tax but excluding pension contribution and insurances) which may be negotiable on the basis of skills and experience. The salary scale provides for increments on the anniversary of taking up employment, and scales are reviewed by the EUMETSAT Council with effect from 1 January each year. In addition to basic salary, EUMETSAT offers attractive benefits. Further information, including salary details, is available on the EUMETSAT web site.
EUMETSAT is committed to providing an equal opportunities work environment for men and women.
Please note that only nationals of EUMETSAT Member States may apply. The EUMETSAT Convention requires that Staff shall be recruited on the basis of their qualifications, account being taken of the international character of EUMETSAT.
EUMETSAT is Europe’s meteorological satellite agency. Its role is to establish and operate meteorological satellites to monitor the weather and climate from space - 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. This information is supplied to the National Meteorological Services of the organisation's Member States in Europe, as well as other users worldwide.
EUMETSAT also operates several Copernicus missions on behalf of the European Union and provide data services to the Copernicus marine and atmospheric services and their users.
As an intergovernmental European Organisation, EUMETSAT has 30 Member States (Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey and the United Kingdom.)
