Wireless Communications Engineer

Overview

Are you passionate about human space exploration, understanding the origins of the universe, and working with a passionate and diverse team to make a difference? If you are, we need you!

We need your talent, teamwork, and energy to help us achieve great things that inspire people all over the globe. We need you to bring creative ideas and diverse backgrounds to help us envision, shape, and deliver systems that will enable the exploration of space while benefiting people here on Earth. We are excited about what we do, and we need you on our team as we take on exciting challenges for NASA’s pursuits in deep space exploration.

As NASA’s largest engineering solutions provider working together with NASA at centers across the United States.

We have an exciting opportunity for a Wireless Communications Engineer to join the team with Barrios
, a teammate company!

The Wireless Communications Engineer will:

• Serve as a RF Communications Systems Engineer for the Communication and Tracking Sub-System Analysis Team for ISS, Orion, Moon Base and Exploration Programs, a critical integration effort of the NASA Program which will return to the Moon

• Review Link and network layer protocols implemented on communication systems based on CCSDS recommendations

• Determine the performance of Radio Frequency (RF) communication links and create link budgets using analytical methods, analysis and simulations

• Actively participate and contribute to Systems Requirements Reviews (SRR), Preliminary & Critical Design Reviews, and Technical Interchange Meetings

• Perform RF interference & compatibility analysis, Power Flux Density analysis, Spectral analysis for space-based communication systems using Matlab, Simulink and Excel

• Review Radio Frequency communication subsystem level Interface Requirements Documents (IRD), Verification Requirements (VRs), Interface Control Documents (ICDs) and component level requirements (Transponders, Transceivers, baseband processors)

• Assist and support NASA RF communication sub system manager with reviews, meetings and be the technical Point of Contact

• Represent JSC and interface with other NASA centers, federal agencies and commercial partners

• Other duties as required

Required Education/Experience/

Skills:

• BS or MS degree in in Electrical Engineering from an accredited engineering school, plus five (5) years of experience in the field or in a related area.

• Must have completed college level RF Communications coursework such as Digital communications, DSP, Microwave, satellite communications, Estimation and Detection theory, etc.

• Strong analytical skills in RF communications

• Strong knowledge of communication systems such as digital modulation, demodulation, encoding/decoding, spread spectrum signals, signal detection, data formatting and packetizing

• Excellent communication and organizational skills along with the ability to work in a team environment

• Must be a U.S. Citizen or a Permanent Resident (3 years) and successfully complete a U.S. government background investigation

Preferences:

• Experience with Spectrum (frequency) management including NTIA spectrum approval process, review of spectrum requests, spectrum sharing and interference analysis

• Experience with NASA processes

• Knowledge in antennas, RF propagation and network layer protocols

• Familiar with CCSDS communication standards

• Knowledge of Pseudo noise (PN) Ranging, forward error correction such as LDPC, radiometric (range and range rate) calculations, Orbital Dynamics

• Programming languages such as C/C++ and Python

Essential Requirements

• Must be a U.S. Citizen and successfully complete a U.S. government background investigation.
• Applicant selected may be subject to government security investigation and must meet…