SAR Payload Systems Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Take ownership of the definition, design, integration, verification, and maintenance of SAR payload subsystems across various satellite programs.

• Serve as the technical liaison with customers, prime contractors, and internal teams.

• Collect and trace payload requirements from the mission level down to the subsystem level.

• Design the architecture of the SAR payload, including antenna arrays, RF front-end Tx/Rx, digital beamforming, processing chains, digital electronics, power, thermal, and mass considerations.

• Lead the conceptual, preliminary, and detailed design phases, including trade studies and performance budgeting.

• Produce Interface Control Documents (ICDs); specify hardware requirements and review schematics and layouts.

• Conduct performance simulations for tolerance budgeting and assessing image quality.

• Assist in the development of SAR and moving-target-indication algorithms.

• Create payload DC power budgets, conduct Failure Mode, Effects, and Criticality Analysis (FMECA), fault tree analysis, FDIR, and reliability assessments.

• Develop the payload verification master plan encompassing unit, subsystem, payload, environmental, and EMC testing.

• Lead test automation initiatives and reporting processes.

• Provide support for mission operations through payload health monitoring, on-orbit anomaly root-cause analysis, telemetry analysis, and operator training.

⛳️ Requirements

• A degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or Physics.

• Over 5 years of experience in supporting remote sensing system development, integration, and testing on LEO/MEO missions.

• Excellent technical writing skills for requirements, ICDs, test procedures, and risk reports.

• Strong presentation abilities.

• Practical experience in systems integration and testing.

• Familiarity with Confluence and JIRA.

• Capability to work independently with minimal supervision.

• Proficient in both written and spoken English.

• US citizenship or permanent residency is required.

• Proficiency in French is a plus.

🏝️ Benefits

• Fully remote work opportunity from the US.