Spaceflight Imager Test Engineer (Milton Keynes, ENG, GB, MK7 6AA)Salary: £46049.00Change your career, change livesThe Open University is the UK’s largest university, a world leader in flexible part-time education combining a mission to widen access to higher education with research excellence, transforming lives through education. Find out more about us and our mission by watching this short video (you will be taken to YouTube by clicking this link).About the RoleThe role holder will join the Atmospheric Research and Space Exploration group at the Open University (OU), a research group consisting of over 30 dynamic and diverse people led by the Professor of Planetary Science, working towards a common purpose of exploring the Mars, Venus and Jupiter using spaceflight instrumentation, and analysing the returned data to better understand the universe we live in.  The role will contribute to the Faculty’s research objectives by having responsibility for the design, testing and analysis of testing of imaging instrumentation and detector devices in the context of future spaceflight instrumentation.  The OU has a leading role in multiple upcoming and potential future spaceflight imaging instruments, destined to explore the Moon, Mars, Venus and Jupiter. This role will involve the characterisation of spaceflight optical and detector technology, achieved through the design and implementation of experimen...