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.

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