Telecommunications Payload Engineer

Telecommunications Payload Engineer

Univity

Toulouse, France

Job description

As Telecommunications Payload Engineer you will be instrumental to the development of regenerative payloads for our satellite constellation, through the design, engineering, industrialization and operational phases of our projects. You will participate in the definition, design and development of the payloads and all their subsystems, (including RF, processor, antennas, power and control), and be responsible for ensuring correct interfaces between the payloads and the platforms to guarantee that the requirements of the overall mission are met.

Your key responsibilities and tasks

• Develop the requirements of our payloads, working closely with the platform team and mission team to ensure compatibility with the overall mission;
• Define and own subsystem technical requirements;
• Prepare technical analyses, simulations, reports, trade-offs and recommendations as necessary to drive the development of the payloads and support the Mission engineering activities;
• Review technical documentation from internal and external suppliers and participate in their project reviews;
• Perform payload prototyping activities, including test definition, supply chain identification, in-lab integration and test execution;
• Support the AIT and industrial activities after satellite design is completed;
• Support the LEOP and operations activities after satellite launch.

Profile required

Skills and experience

• Minimum master’s level qualification in Engineering or a related discipline with at least 5 years’ experience of systems engineering for the space environment;
• Experience with telecommunications payload engineering including working with on-board digital signal processors, channelization, and beamforming; and assessing telecommunications payload performances including EIRP, G/T, C/I, and capacity;
• Familiarity with network telecom architecture, including physical, access, network layers, link budgeting is as advantage;
• Experience with broadband/backhauling NGSO constellations, electronically steerable antennas, optical inter-satellite links, analogue and digital beamforming, and beam hopping systems is as advantage;
• Excellent written and oral communication skills in English;
• Pragmatic, with strong problem-solving and critical thinking abilities.