Senior Communication Sys Engineer, Modeling and Simulation

What you'll do

• Own system-level modeling and analysis for government mission scenarios across coverage, capacity, latency, and availability.
• Translate customer mission objectives into technical scenarios, measures of effectiveness, and design reference missions.
• Apply orbital mechanics and constellation geometry to perform coverage, access, and contact analyses.
• Design and evaluate resource scheduling and allocation methods for satellite beam assignment and prioritization.
• Perform multi-disciplinary trade studies involving RF bandwidth, network resources, and link selection.
• Build and utilize RF and optical link budgets to model time-varying system capacity and availability.
• Develop and extend simulation code using MATLAB, C++, or Python to support dynamic network topologies.
• Prepare and present technical analysis packages, visualizations, and briefing materials for government customers.

What we're looking for

• U.S. citizenship is required.
• Must possess a recent or active US Government TS/SCI security clearance (polygraph preferred).
• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, or an equivalent field.
• 8+ years of experience in satellite or network system design, modeling, and analysis.
• 8+ years of experience developing code in MATLAB, C, C++, or Python with industry-standard coding and regression practices.
• Strong understanding of orbital mechanics and constellation geometry to simulate time-varying relative geometry of satellites and ground nodes.
• Working knowledge of RF or optical link budgets and their impact on system capacity and availability.
• Experience with resource scheduling, allocation, or optimization for communications or satellite systems.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills for preparing and presenting technical content to customers.
• Master's or PhD in Aerospace Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Physics, or a related discipline (preferred).
• Experience with satellite constellation design, management trades, and optical inter-satellite links (preferred).
• Background in RF/communications system design, communication theory, and network topology analysis (preferred).
• Experience with mission engineering, CONOPS development, and supporting government or national security programs (preferred).