Principal RF Communication Engineer II
Location: Broomfield, COor Austin, TX
Package: Competitive Salary + Benefits
Your Role:
In this position, you will serve as the technical point of contact for communication programs, leading the development of space architecture concepts, sub-system design, payload design, requirements development, analysis, and high-level software and hardware system architecture design. You will coordinate activities across multidisciplinary engineering teams, raise issues at the program level, and drive complex programs to success.
Responsibilities:
- Evaluate mission needs to define requirements, integrate technical parameters, and ensure compatibility of all physical, functional, and program interfaces.
- Derive mission ConOps for space vehicle and constellation level architectures.
- Support reviews of requests for proposals and develop responses.
- Lead trade studies to optimize system architecture.
- Define and validate space system requirements and interfaces.
- Develop and direct technical concept development for proposals.
- Lead the development of space architecture concepts, sub-system design, payload design, ground station design, and requirements development.
- Conduct analysis and decomposition, hardware system design, link budget studies, gain line up, cascade analysis, array simulation studies, CONOPS development, and risk reduction.
- Select and define modem and data layer configurations.
- Participate in developing system engineering processes for requirements management, flow down, and traceability.
Required Skills and Qualifications:
- Master’s or Doctorate degree in Electrical Engineering.
- 10+ years of experience in space communications.
- Strong background in communication theory.
- Deep understanding of RF concepts, impairments, and their impacts.
- Practical experience with FPGA and modern vector processing engines.
- Experience with satellite-communications standards (NR NTN, DVB-S2x, CCSDS).
- Proficiency in at least one scripting and one programming language (ideally Python & C++).
- Experience working with product/component developers and vendors.
- Experience working with classified systems and red/black architectures for communications.
- Experience with optical communications systems.
- Ability to hold a security clearance.
- Excellent written and verbal technical communication skills.
- Ability to define work direction, track milestones, and demonstrate progress on large open-ended projects.
- Sense of urgency, with the ability to work well under pressure.
- Ability to work effectively in teams, with peers and management.
