Overview
Hybrid
Depends on Experience
Full Time
Skills
RF
RF Engineering
Satellite
Antennas
ICD
Job Details
Title - Satellite Antenna Systems
Client - Federal Client
Location - Suitland, MD (Onsite)
Full Time
Job Description
Client - Federal Client
Location - Suitland, MD (Onsite)
Full Time
Job Description
- Provide engineering expertise in the installation, integration, and operation of ground systems that support Federal Satellite Service and related space missions.
- Perform professional engineering work involving electronic circuits, circuit elements, equipment, systems, and associated phenomena concerned with electromagnetic or acoustical wave energy or electrical information for purposes such as communication, computation, sensing, control, measurement, and navigation.
- Provide support to Engineering Assessments (EA) and cost estimation, if requested.
- Support oversight of sustainment projects to provide the Government insight on vendor commitments and constraints in terms of budget, schedule, technical scope and quality.
- Validate space capability requirements, analyze current system performance, and perform gap analysis to support emerging capabilities in the program.
- Support investigations into Network, Antenna, or any other ground-related anomaly and participate in the notification and closure processes.
- Support the transition of the space data distribution and network configuration.
- Deliver data, recommendations, analytical reports, or papers, including Interface Control Document (ICD) generation and updates/mods.
- Ability to analyze problems, identify solutions, work in a fast-paced team environment, and have strong written and verbal communication skills.
Specific Duties
Specific duties of the Satellite Antenna Systems Engineer / SME include:
- Applies knowledge and ability apply or extend modulation and multiple access techniques, error correction methods, and transmits.
- Develops or maintains protocols for systems/networks with large delay/bandwidth products as used with advanced communication satellites.
- Conducts analysis (satellite data/frequency interference) to determine projects' impact on the safety of the public, natural and environmentally sensitive locations, mission readiness, and operations during any weather conditions.
- Performs RF analysis and feasibility studies (as required by the Government) necessary to define upgrade requirements for antennas supporting future missions, such as EUMETSAT Second Generation.
- Performs risk analysis and mitigation planning on antenna subsystems.
- Assists the Lead/Senior Systems Engineer in executing projects as directed.
Job Requirements
Education and Experience
- Bachelor's or master's degree in electrical engineering or related field.
- Fifteen or more years’ experience with a strong knowledge of electromagnetic theory and antenna design, and experience with RF circuit simulation and testing tools.
- Extensive experience in space-ground communications, which includes an understanding of spacecraft communications systems, environmental constraints, link margins, antenna types and components used in these instances, and experience with common space frequency bands (e.g., UHF, L, S, X, Ka)
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