Special Mentions 

• Relocation provided

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Collaborate with customers, team members, systems engineering, architecture, hardware, and software teams to ensure cross-functional deliverables are identified and tracked 

• Design and develop an end-to-end communication system architecture that details how architectural elements are developed, constructed, deployed, and maintained across Space and Ground elements 

• Coordinate and provide direction across diverse engineering teams to successful project execution by offering solutions that are imaginative, thorough, predictable, and consistent with organizational objectives 

• Develop and implement security policies and procedures for spacecraft systems 

• Establish goals and metrics to find opportunities to deliver customer solutions to cost, performance, and schedule requirements 

• Serve as a communication system focal throughout the program lifecycle as systems are developed, championing the conceptual vision and adapting it to reality 

• Mentor and train across the program to ensure approach, philosophy, and technology are understood and implemented, so they provide required capabilities and value to our customers 

Minimum Qualifications

• B.S. in Aerospace, Software, Electrical, Mechanical, Physics, Systems Engineering, or related technical subject area

• 10 years of Technical Experience developing Space Communications systems and their ground systems 

• 10 years of Technical Experience in the Communications domain, spanning the complete OSI stack. Including but not limited to communications theory, frequency and bandwidth selection, modulation, encoding, transport protocols and standards (including CCSDS), application protocol and packet definition (file transfer, commanding, telemetry, command assurance), and communications security. 

• Proficient with communication standards and protocols including modulation formats, channel coding, and advanced waveforms (e.g. DVB-S2, 5G NR, spread sprectrum, etc.) 

• Experience leveraging government communications standards and technologies (e.g. SCN) 

• Strong skills with tools used in communications access modeling and contact analysis (experience using STK or similar tools to support site selection, mission satisfaction, etc.) 

• Strong background developing communication system CONOPs, requirements, and interface description documents to flow to element level teams 

• Strong experience developing communications link budgets to predict link closure, link quality, and effective data rates. Ability to identify and manage risks against system performance 

• Experience developing high-level plans for end-to-end integrated system tests occurring throughout a program’s lifecycle 

• Familiarity with NIST Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability (CIA Triad) standards to maintain Moderate to High information security

• Familiarity with data framing and space-to-ground security data protocols (i.e. CCSDS) to support security data link layer and routing capabilities 

• Outstanding customer relationship skills including the ability to discover the requirements underlying feature requests, recommend alternative technical and business approaches, and lead engineering efforts to meet ambitious timelines with optimal solutions. 

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills 

• Must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum. 

Desired Qualifications 

• Experience developing in-space network planning and scheduling tools and on-board routing algorithms. 

•  Experience modeling, simulating, and analyzing networks to assess utilization, latency, and capacity statistics and identify bottlenecks

• Experience designing space vehicle and terrestrial network architecture, including IP routing, gateways, VPNs, NAT, and other critical networking concepts 

• Experience designing and characterizing gimballed communications systems 

• Experience implementing IP protocols over conventional Space to Ground (ex. CCSDS, IPSec) links 

• Ability to define command and telemetry database processes capturing space to ground interfaces and exchanges, and lead element level teams in implementation and management of critical space to ground interfaces