MK-Avionics Sr Communications Engineer - Lunar Permanence

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Develop Communication system design for one or more in‑space architectures.
• Allocate and decompose higher level functions and requirements to the Communications Subsystems.
• Support the alignment, documentation, and consistent implementation of Lunar Permanence System engineering practices across applicable projects.
• Support system and lower‑level requirements management, including change control, audits, and coordination with other teams.
• Support the development and creation of Con Ops.
• Develop, track, and maintain analyses and simulations for Communications Subsystem including: link analysis, signal distortion, system capacity, coverage analysis and performance.
• Develop subsystem verification and validation activity definitions including verification methods, expectations, and compliance criteria.
• Coordinate with Integration & Test teams to ensure test facilities (including integration labs) have the required capabilities per requirements definition.
• Track V&V activities to successful completion, which may include reviewing subsystem test plans and possible travel to test facilities when needed.
• Support in the definition of vehicle‑level interfaces between systems and elements that interact with internal components.
• Support in the authoring of safety artifacts, including functional hazard assessments and hazard mitigations.
• Mentor early career systems engineers.

• Required Minimum of a B.S. degree in electrical engineering
• 10+ years of experience in communication systems or RF testing
• Working knowledge of major RF components used in a communication subsystem (SSPA, LNAs, Transceivers, wave guides, antennas, filters, etc.)
• Strong Communication fundamentals including understanding of digital modulation schemes including various types of QPSK modulation (OQPSK, UQPSK, spread spectrum approaches, etc.), FEC encoding like Reed Solomon and LDCP codes, and the relationship between information rates and RF requirements
• Experience delivering communications systems for spacecraft applications including experience addressing radiation effects, hardware/software integration, thermal management, etc.
• Experience integrating communication systems into larger systems, including definition of management and data interfaces using protocols like RS-422, Ethernet, Space Wire, HDLC, etc.
• Experience developing static and dynamic RF simulations (link budgets, coverage analyses, line of site simulation, etc.) with tools like HFSS, STK, MATLAB, and/or Python.
• Working knowledge of space environments and the process to space qualify a communication flight unit
• Ability to work from incomplete specifications to drive to completion.
• Proven ability to interpret and apply high-level system requirements to practical design solutions for a complex physical assembly
• In depth knowledge of systems engineering practices (e.g., requirements development; standard verification methods; functional decomposition; standard diagramming techniques; risk and opportunity management)
• Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills

• 10+ years of satellite communication systems, and familiarity with all phases of an RF’s product lifecycle from concept, design, manufacture, test, and integration
• Working knowledge of simulation software like HFSS for antenna placement studies, Coverage analysis, antenna pattern simulations, ray tracing simulations, and other RF studies.
• Full‑life cycle engineering for a communication system from clean‑sheet architecture definition through to operations planning and support.
• Experience writing RF test procedures and performing subsystem level functional tests
• Base Pay Range for: WA applicants is $ - $

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