Senior Payload Engineer

Responsibilities

• Being part of the technical lead team of telecom payloads for Small Satcom product.
• Architectural design of communication payloads including RF and Optical.
• Budgeting and maintaining the main parameters of each payload (Mass, consumption Dissipation and all relevant performance parameters).
• Manage and interface with the team members responsible for the other satellite subsystems.
• Define and analyse different components of the telecom payload, from passive units, RF active units to digital and optical components.
• Develop relationships with suppliers; to define the design and the manufacturing AIT required.
• Define and prepare SoWs and specifications, work with the program team to assure the implementation of the design through the planned activities.
• Solving problems along with the rest of the subsystems to assure an efficient implementation of the mission.
• Working jointly with the AIT team to design and implement all relevant activities for the payload atl all levels (subsystem and satellite level)
• Test Specification and Procedures development
• Subsystem documentation shall be performed based on the architecture, analysis and units
• Subsystem AIT (Activities of Integration & Test) based on the architecture shall be developed
• Skills and Requirements
• Minimum 10 years of real-world experience with comms payload system architecture, requirements definition, flow down, tracking and performing system-level analyses.
• Strong experience with geostationairy satellites.
• Experience in design or implementation of RF equipment used for telecom satellites (SSPAs, TWTs, distributed amplifiers, phased arrays, passive units like filters, switches, etc.).
• Experience in design or implementation of digital processors (transparent or regenerative) for satellites.
• Ability to analyse data, derive conclusions, and manage design documentation as well as review and approve design changes
• Ability to trade-off and optimize performance, resolve complex technical problems, manage technical work with partners.
• Extensive experience with various relevant system modelling and analysis tools is a must (electromagnetic, antenna simulation, general purpose coding tools, etc).