Staff Engineer (Satellite Communications)

📋 Description

• Own the architecture of the satellite-to-ground link across X-band and Ka-band payload downlink and
• Measure what the constellation delivers against its theoretical capacity, and lead the work that
• Design how data moves from ground station to customer, including latency tiers and delivery
• 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

🎯 Requirements

• Communications engineering on at least one flown mission, including personally diagnosing an
• 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
• Practical CCSDS knowledge: transfer frames, virtual channels, synchronisation and channel coding
• Experience owning how data moves from a ground station to where it is consumed, with latency and
• Hands-on coding in Python, Go, C++ or similar; you ship code, not just designs

🎁 Benefits

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