Senior Systems Engineer, Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR)

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About the role

  • Senior Systems MTS contributing to SAR space mission engineering, payload design, and operations. Supporting mission specifications, risk management, verification, and calibration for Fastwater Staffing and Recruiting.

Responsibilities

  • Contribute end-to-end to SAR engineering across the full lifecycle of a SAR space mission
  • Contribute to the mission concept of operations and high-level mission specs, including spacecraft budgets for the SAR payload
  • Lead technical solutions for mission enhancements: beam mode design, mission concept design, image quality modelling
  • Take part in mission-level risk management, integration, verification and validation
  • Own design trade-offs across spacecraft systems, coverage and access, SAR payload, SAR processor and end-user applications
  • Serve as a key team member through commissioning, calibration and early operations
  • Mentor others

Requirements

  • Graduate degree in Electrical Engineering, Engineering Physics, Math or Physics (or equivalent)
  • 10+ years with radar, SAR or similar active imaging systems (hardware, processors and/or data products)
  • 5+ years in a space systems engineering or similar complex systems environment
  • SAR remote sensing experience: system design, operation, applications/exploitation and/or calibration
  • Strong communicator
  • US citizen or permanent resident
  • Nice to have: MATLAB, Python; satellite SAR payload design and operations; space mission design; spacecraft design; geospatial data

Job type

Contract

Experience level

Senior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Postgraduate Degree

Tech skills

PythonRemote Sensing

Location requirements

RemoteCanada

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