Description
Satellite Network Systems Engineer - Belgium - long term contract
My client a market leader within the space sector are looking to recruit a Satellite Network Systems Engineer on a long term contract basis.
The role can be described as follows:
Task Content
Your main job responsibilities will include:
- Designing networking solutions for systems wherein the network nodes are Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites
- Defining associated payload road maps, requirements and development needs
- Interacting in these definition tasks with the Department's payload architecture designers and implementation specialists
- Participating to development/demonstration project build-up (including bids, partnership development, project implementation)
This role will involve some travel for business and as such you must be able to travel accordingly.
Profile
The typical candidate will have a university degree in electrical engineering, with specialization in data communication networks, and as a minimum 5+ years of recent professional experience in that field. The candidate must be familiar with the domain of satellite telecommunications.
His/her core skills will include:
- Flexible routing and switching solutions in a network providing mainstream carrier data services
- Specific knowledge of carrier Ethernet access network and associated service types
- Network management and control
- Network security
The specific domain in which his/her skills will be applied make familiarity with the following domains and issues mandatory:
- Features of LEO satellite constellations: call admission control, handover algorithms
- Features of satellite links: limited bandwidth, delay, fading
- Features of satellite payloads: limited power and computational power
- Radio-resource management: channel allocation optimizing quality of service versus bandwidth utilization
Knowledge of the following will be valuable assets:
- Wireless air interfaces including efficient & adaptive modulation and coding, interference mitigation techniques, power control schemes, terminal acquisition, admission and authentication
- Regulatory mechanisms
- Space project development stages and relevant applicable standards (ECSS)
If this sounds of interest, please contact me ASAP to discuss further.