Responsibilities
- Collaborate with mission stakeholders and operational concept teams to define functional, performance, environmental, and cybersecurity requirements.
- Convert system requirements into measurable payload performance parameters and ensure traceability from concept through delivery.
- Work with cybersecurity specialists to establish payload-specific security standards and integrate resilient design principles.
- Design the complete digital regenerative payload architecture, including optical and RF inter-satellite links, antenna arrays, digitizers, onboard processing, feeder links, and clock synchronization systems.
- Develop Interface Control Documents for interactions with spacecraft bus, ground infrastructure, and internal payload subsystems.
- Specify high-speed data interface standards such as Serdes, SpaceWire, SpaceFibre, Ethernet, CAN, and fiber optics.
- Lead technical trade studies for component selection, including ASICs, FPGAs, SoCs, data buses, processing algorithms, and PVT considerations.
- Identify and evaluate emerging technologies for inclusion in long-term strategic planning.
- Create comprehensive end-to-end signal chain models covering both optical and RF paths, analog and digital domains using MATLAB/Simulink, SystemVue, or Python tools.
- Perform Monte Carlo and tolerance analyses to validate critical performance indicators such as gain, SNR, dynamic range, spectral efficiency, G/T, and EIRP.
- Refine payload configurations using traffic patterns and operational scenarios to maximize efficiency and reliability.
- Supervise simulation and analysis of key performance metrics including linearity, spurious signals, pointing accuracy, and spectral characteristics, along with tolerance allocation.
- Optimize power consumption based on expected traffic loads and duty cycles.
- Translate system specifications into hardware implementation requirements, and review electrical schematics, PCB layouts, and mechanical/thermal interfaces.
- Oversee modulation and coding scheme selection, onboard data processing workflows, and define built-in self-test, timing, latency, and deterministic operation criteria.
- Report technical progress, risk evaluations, and trade-off outcomes to leadership, clients, or collaborators.
- Serve as the main technical contact for cross-disciplinary teams including electrical, power, structural, thermal, software, ground systems, and mission operations to resolve integration challenges early.
- Support system design reviews and mission handover activities under the guidance of the payload design authority.
- Contribute to pre-phase A and Phase 0 studies for new mission concepts.
- Develop the Payload Verification Master Plan encompassing unit, subsystem, payload-level, environmental, and EMC testing phases.
- Define frameworks for automated testing, including test case development, execution, result evaluation, and certification reporting.
- Provide technical mentorship and guidance to junior engineers and interns.
- Act as the technical point of contact for external partners, customers, and vendors.
- Participate in continuous improvement initiatives across engineering processes and system design practices.
- Support the development of internal knowledge repositories, engineering standards, and process improvements.
Work Arrangement
On-site — Montreal, Canada
Other
- Full relocation support, including immigration assistance, is provided.
- Relocation bonus is offered upon arrival in Montreal.
- Selected candidates may work remotely during the initial months while their immigration process is being completed.
- Long-term expectation is for the individual to transition to onsite work in Montreal once relocation has been finalized.
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