Job Title: Verification & Validation System Engineer

Job Description

The Verification & Validation System Engineer will delve deeply into component and subsystem designs to develop and define verification approaches and types, clearly outlined in a Requirements Verification Compliance Matrix (RVCM). This role involves collaborating with various technical teams, including software, mechanical, modem, and compliance teams, to validate system-level and network-level operations from concept through execution. Additionally, the engineer will integrate and perform verification of the end-to-end RF communications system and meet with customers to select components. The position requires defining plans for on-orbit payload verification or satellite testing based on identified requirements, analyzing and mitigating potential self-interference and other system interference issues, interpreting test results, troubleshooting issues, performing root-cause analysis for any test failures, and documenting test results and key performance indicators.

Responsibilities

• Develop and define verification approaches and types using a clearly defined Requirements Verification Compliance Matrix (RVCM).
• Collaborate with software, mechanical, modem, and compliance teams to validate expectations for system-level and network-level operations.
• Integrate and perform verification of the end-to-end RF communications system.
• Select components in meetings with internal and external customers.
• Define plans for on-orbit payload verification or satellite testing based on identified requirements.
• Analyze and mitigate potential self-interference and other system interference issues.
• Interpret test results, troubleshoot issues, and perform root-cause analysis for test failures.
• Document test results, test coverage, and other key performance indicators (KPI) metrics.

Essential Skills

• Proficiency in systems engineering, requirements management, and test requirements.
• Experience in system level test design.
• On-orbit payload verification or satellite testing experience.
• Experience with launched products or space vehicle design.

Additional Skills & Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in space vehicle, bus, RF payload, or optical payload integration and test or related industry experience.
• 5+ years of experience developing space or communication system test requirements, plans, and procedures for system design verification and validation.
• 5+ years of space system, bus, or payload engineering or related industry experience.
• 5+ years of experience in space vehicle design and/or verification with launched products.
• 4+ years of experience using standard electronic lab test equipment (e.g., network analyzers, oscilloscopes, spectrum analyzers, function generators, multimeters).
• 4+ years of experience developing code in C, C++, Python, Docker, and Rust on Linux platform, along with industry-standard coding practices.
• Experience with testing satellite communications payloads, optical communications payloads, spacecraft bus, and constituent subsystems or space vehicle level.