NewSpace Technical
Senior Radio Frequency Engineer
NewSpace Technical, Denver, Colorado, United States,
Principal RF Communication Engineer IILocation: Broomfield, COor Austin, TXPackage: 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.
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.