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.