Engineering Careers in Space - Talk with a Space System Engineer 🚀

With SpaceX rockets performing amazing flip maneuvers, astronauts tweeting from Space Stations, and robots riding across the desert of Mars, it shouldn’t be too far out there in the realm of your possibility that you can work in the space industry 🚀

The space sector is growing fast, and ambitious space missions require a large team of workers with a variety of skills, including software development and machine learning. High-tech space qualified hardware cannot be used and controlled without a robust software, while data collected by spacecraft relies on machine learning to minimize the processing time.

For this talk, we are happy to welcome Alice Pellegrino, Space System Engineer who worked at Canon Electronics inc. designing and building Japanese microsatellites. She will share her tips & insights for developers and data scientists who are dreaming to get their foot in the space sector in Japan and Europe.

Key points 👉

✔️ What does a Space Engineer do?
✔️ Careers in Space for Software Developers
✔️ Careers in Space for Machine Learning Engineers
✔️ Soft skills that will improve your chances to get a job in space sector

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🚀 About Alice Pellegrino 🚀

Alice Pellegrino is currently working in Antwerp (Belgium) as System Engineer and Sub-contractors Manager for QinetiQ Space NV.

Before arriving in Belgium, Alice worked for two years at Canon Electronics Inc. in Tokyo (Japan) as Lead System Engineer, focusing on the design and development of small satellites for Earth Observation missions based on high-resolution optical systems.

Since 2015, she has been part of the Rome Local Group of Women In Aerospace Europe (WIA-E Rome LG) and she is the Committee Secretary of the Italian branch and the responsible for the research group dedicated to “Gender Equality in the Aerospace Field”.

🚀About Le Wagon Tokyo 🚀

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