Senior Systems Engineer (QA/CM)
KSAT, INC.
- Denver, CO
- $130,000-160,000 per year
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Opportunity to work across the commercial, civil, and defense space industry
- Flexible work environment
- Experience in an international company with a global footprint and opportunities to work across cultures
- Engaging team: inspire small, dedicated, “A-class” teammates. Being part of a nimble and passionate “start-up” team, with the financial security and product technology readiness level of an established company – the best of both worlds
- Four weeks of PTO annually
- $0 individual medical insurance with generous coverages
- Flexible working environment
- Fitness expense reimbursement program
- Tuition reimbursement program
- International travel opportunities
- Provide engineering oversite for complete site build-out, from site survey, through design, installation, testing, and operations
- Identify and implement engineering processes such as quality assurance, configuration and change control, issue tracking, and lab inventory management.
- Represent KSAT as lead engineer for face-to-face customer testing efforts for RF communications, optical communications, and network interfaces.
- Coordinate with the KSAT global technical and program teams to design, develop, and implement long-term solutions for challenging space-ground communications
- Work in a matrixed organization
- Minimum
- 8-years of demonstrated engineering experience developing, deploying, and/or testing complex systems
- 4-years of demonstrated SATCOM experience developing, deploying, and/or testing space to ground RF systems to include narrowband TT&C and wideband mission data
- 2-years of demonstrated engineering experience with process tools such as AGILE, JIRA, Confluence, Doors, etc.
- In depth technical competency and experience designing RF communication systems including modulation/demodulation of SATCOM signals, front end processing of data (framing, encoding, and synchronization), and ground segment monitoring and control systems
- Preferred
- Hands-on experience testing RF systems to include the build-out and integration of digitizers, down/upconverters, software modems with customer supplied radios, signal generators, and/or spectrum analyzers
- Previous demonstrated experience with RF systems using space data standards such as CCSDS and DVB-S2
- Previous demonstrated experience designing and implementing engineering process controls
- Experience deploying networked systems to transport digital IF over IP
- Experience configuring Linux systems utilizing command line interfaces and shell scripting
- Familiarity with RESTful API development and integration with external customer or supplier systems
- Familiarity with optical communications design and operations
- Familiarity with public and private cloud architectures for digital signal processing including Solutions Architect certifications from AWS or Microsoft Azure
- Minimum: Bachelor’s degree in engineering or other technical discipline
- Preferred: Master’s degree in engineering or other technical discipline
- Travel is estimated at 15%
- Travel will be necessary to customer sites in the United States
- Travel will be necessary to Tromsø, Norway 2-3 times per year
- Travel to other global locations may be required on a case-by-case basis