Staff Engineer (Satellite Communications)

Описание

As a Staff Engineer in Satellite Communications, you will own the satellite-to-ground link, the core communications protocols, and the end-to-end transmission of data from ground stations to customers. The work sits where software meets physics, combining link budgets, modulation and coding, and spectrum constraints with schedulers, distributed systems and production operations. You will own what you build, from design to production, across a stack that combines cloud, on-prem and real hardware.

Responsibilities

• Own the architecture of the satellite-to-ground link across X-band and Ka-band payload downlink and S-band command and control
• Measure what the constellation delivers against its theoretical capacity, and lead the work that closes the gap
• Design how data moves from ground station to customer, including latency tiers and delivery accounting
• Build alongside software engineers, contributing code and reviews, not only architecture documents
• Lead technical initiatives across team boundaries and align teams on link and data path decisions
• Grow satellite communications expertise across the domain through mentoring, design reviews and shared standards

Requirements

• Communications engineering on at least one flown mission, including personally diagnosing an anomaly on a live satellite
• High-rate payload downlink experience in X-band or Ka-band, beyond S-band command and control
• Ability to build and defend a link budget: EIRP, G/T, Eb/N0, margin, rain fade, elevation constraints
• Practical CCSDS knowledge: transfer frames, virtual channels, synchronisation and channel coding, file delivery