Senior Systems MTS, Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Missions for Fastwater Staffing and Recruiting

Job description

What you will do

• 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

• Key member of the team through commissioning, calibration and early operations; mentor others

What you need

• 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.