Responsibilities
- Collect mission-critical requirements including functional, performance, environmental, and cybersecurity needs from stakeholders and operational concepts.
- Translate system requirements into technical specifications for payload components and their interfaces with onboard processing units.
- Collaborate with cybersecurity specialists to conduct risk assessments specific to payload architecture and data handling.
- Manage requirements throughout the program lifecycle, ensuring traceability from concept to verification.
- Design and implement high-level digital payload architectures, including optical inter-satellite links, phased array antennas, feeder links, RF front-ends, and timing systems.
- Develop Interface Control Documents (ICDs) to define interactions between payload subsystems and ground systems.
- Integrate high-speed data bus interfaces such as SpaceWire, SpaceFibre, Ethernet, and CAN within the payload system.
- Conduct performance modeling and simulation for key parameters including gain, linearity, SNR, dynamic range, spectral efficiency, G/T, EIRP, and tolerance analysis using Monte-Carlo methods.
- Establish and maintain power budget allocations for the payload using traffic and utilization models.
- Perform failure mode, effects, and criticality analysis (FMECA), fault tree analysis, and develop FDIR strategies alongside reliability and availability models.
- Provide system-level technical specifications to hardware teams and review design outputs including schematics, PCB layouts, thermal solutions, and mechanical integration.
- Support software development for modulation and coding schemes and onboard data processing, ensuring built-in self-test, timing accuracy, latency control, and deterministic operation.
- Report technical progress, risks, and trade-off study outcomes to leadership, clients, or partner organizations.
- Assist the payload design authority in system-level design reviews and assessments involving power, structural, thermal, and mission operations aspects.
- Coordinate with electrical, power, structural, thermal, software, ground segment, and mission operations teams to proactively resolve integration challenges.
- Contribute to early-phase studies including pre-phase A and concept definition (B&P).
- Create the Payload Verification Master Plan encompassing unit, subsystem, payload-level, environmental, and EMC test campaigns.
- Lead the development of test automation frameworks, test case design, result evaluation, and certification of test reports.
- Mentor junior engineers and interns in systems engineering practices and payload development.
- Serve as the primary technical contact with external customers, partners, and vendors.
- Participate in continuous improvement initiatives across engineering processes and product development.
- Contribute to organizational knowledge sharing, process optimization, and the development of internal standards.
- Ensure all technical artifacts, analyses, software, deliverables, and documentation are managed under version control in a PLM system.
- Lead or support key design reviews such as SRR, PDR, CDR, MRR, and TRR.
- Support long-term technology planning and innovation efforts aligned with future payload capabilities.
Compensation
Full Relocation Package
Work Arrangement
Relocate to Montreal, Canada
Team
Cross-functional engineering team focused on satellite payload systems development
Responsibilities
- Gather functional, performance, environmental and security requirements from mission stakeholders & CONOPs.
- Map requirements to payload equipment performance with I/F with on-board processor
- Coordinate with cybersecurity team for payload‑specific assessments
- Perform requirement management and maintain bidirectional traceability throughout the program life cycle.
- Implement the high‑level digital payload architecture (optical ISLs, Phased array antennas, Feeder links & front‑end), master reference oscillator & clock synchronizations.
- Produce Interface Control Documents (ICDs) with other subsystems and ground segment.
- Implement high-speed data‑bus I/F (SpaceWire, SpaceFibre, Ethernet, CAN).
- Perform performance simulations (Gain, Spurious, Linearity, SNR, dynamic range, spectral efficiency, G/T, EIRP…etc.) and Monte‑Carlo analyses for tolerance budgeting.
- Define and maintain Payload DC power budget with traffic & utilization models
- Perform FMECA, Fault tree and FDIR, reliability modeling and availability to meet mission objectives
- Provide system‑level specifications to hardware designers, review schematics, layouts, thermal interfaces, and mechanical constraints.
- Support SW development for MODCODs and on‑board processing pipelines; ensure BIST, timing, latency and deterministic behavior.
- Communicate technical status, risk assessments and trade‑study results to senior management and/or customers or partners.
- Support payload design authority in System design reviews, Power/Structure/Thermal interfaces and Mission Operations assessments.
- Liaise with Electrical, Power, Structures, Thermal, Software, Ground‑Segment and Mission‑Operations teams to resolve integration issues early.
- Support B&P (Phase 0 & pre-phase A).
- Develop Payload Verification Master Plan covering unit‑test, subsystem‑test, payload‑level test, environmental and electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) test campaigns.
- Lead test‑automation framework set‑up, test‑case definition, results analysis and test‑report certification.
- Mentor, guide junior engineers and interns.
- Act as technical liaison with customers, partners and external vendors
- Act as Continuous Improvement stakeholder
- Contribute to the company’s knowledge‑base, process enhancements, and standards development.
- Ensure all artefacts, analysis, software, deliverables and documentation are version controlled in PLM environment.
- Lead and Support design reviews (SRR, PDR, CDR, MRR/TRR…etc.).
- Support Technology Road‑Mapping & Innovation.
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