Senior Solutions Engineer

This role will contribute to both commercial and our US government programs.

Role

As a Senior Solutions Engineer you will be working on satellite network design and analysis for global commercial and government solutions. This role will focus on pre-sales engineering for commercial pursuits, but also support post sales engineering and internal development efforts. At its core, this involves optimizing high throughput satellite networks, from design to operation, by understanding and trading dozens of parameters, including but not limited to:

Satellite communications payload configuration and development

Orbital slot selection, spectrum, and frequency planning

Antenna system optimization, user coverage area definition

User terminal selection

Networking / modem equipment selection and configuration

Gateway and remote earth station selection

Baseband selection to meet the client’s specific use case

This is an exciting multi-dimensional role that provides a balance of technical and business / customer facing responsibilities, and is high visibility and high impact. Our responsibilities include:

Create satellite network solutions for commercial pursuits all the way through deal closure and beyond.

Modeling and analyzing satellite networks using in house network software

Interfacing with Commercial, US Government, Finance, Legal, Engineering, Operations, Regulatory and Executive teams

Communicate our satellite network designs and reports externally as solutions/sales engineers

Aid in regulatory (FCC, ITU, etc.) efforts regarding spectrum use and coordination

Aid and influence the design of analysis software that enables us to excel in our role.

Define product market fit for next generation satellite communication systems