The company provides full relocation support, including immigration assistance, and offers a relocation bonus upon arrival in Montreal. Selected candidates may work remotely during the initial months while their immigration process is being completed; however, the long-term expectation is for the individual to transition to onsite work in Montreal once relocation has been finalized.
Tasks summary:
Architecture Concept & Requirements
- Establish functional, performance, environmental and security requirements with mission
stakeholders & CONOPs.
- Translate requirements into clear payload performance parameters and maintain bidirectional
traceability throughout the project lifecycle.
- Establish with cybersecurity team payloadâspecific requirements & embed resilience and
security by design.
Payload Architecture Definition
- Define the overall digital regenerative payload architecture (optical/RF ISLs, antenna arrays,
digitizers/ onboard processing, Feeder links, master reference oscillator & clock
synchronizations).
- Define Interface Control Documents (ICDs) with spacecraft bus, ground segment and payload
specific subsystems.
- Define highâspeed dataâbus I/F (Serdes, SpaceWire, SpaceFibre, Ethernet, CAN, fiber).
TradeâStudy & Technology RoadâMapping
- Lead tradeâoffs for technologies, ASIC/FPGAs/SoCs, highâspeed dataâbus, and onâboard
processing algorithms, PVT.
- Identify emerging technologies and incorporate them into the companyâs longâterm roadmap.
System Modeling & Performance Simulation
- Build endâtoâend models of the signal chain (optical/RF, analog/digital) using
MATLAB/Simulink, SystemView or Pythonâbased toolkits.
- Run MonteâCarlo and tolerance analyses to verify gain, SNR, dynamic range, spectral
efficiency, G/T, EIRP and other key metrics.
- Optimize payload design and performance with operation with traffic models/CONOPs.
Simulation & Analysis
- Oversee performance simulations & analysis (Gain, Spurious, Linearity, SNR, dynamic range,
spectral efficiency, pointing, G/T, EIRPâŚetc.) and tolerance budgeting.
- Optimize Payload DC power budget with traffic & utilization models.
Hardware & Firmware
- Own systemâlevel specifications to hardware designers, review schematics, layouts, thermal &
mechanical interfaces.
- Oversee MODCODs selection and onâboard processing pipelines; define BIST, timing, latency
and deterministic behavior.
CrossâFunctional Coordination, Stakeholder & Program Interaction
- Communicate technical status, risk assessments and tradeâstudy results to senior
management and/or customers or partners.
- Act as the primary technical liaison with Electrical, Power, Structures, Thermal, Software,
Ground Segment and Mission Operations teams to resolve integration issues early.
- Support payload design authority in System design reviews and Mission Operations
handâover.
- Support B&P (Phase 0 & pre-phase A).
Integration & Verification (IVV)
- Author Payload Verification Master Plan covering unitâtest, subsystemâtest, payloadâlevel test,
environmental and electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) test campaigns.
- Define testâautomation framework setâup, testâcase definition, results analysis and testâreport
certification.
Technical Leadership & Mentorship
- Mentor, guide junior engineers and interns.
- Act as technical liaison with customers, partners and external vendors
- Act as Continuous Improvement stakeholder
- Contribute to the companyâs knowledgeâbase, process enhancements, and standards development.
Configuration, Documentation & Standards Management
- Ensure all artefacts, analysis, software, deliverables and documentation are version controlled
in PLM environment.
- Chair design reviews (SRR, PDR, CDR, MRR/TRRâŚetc.).
- Support Technology RoadâMapping & Innovation.
On Orbit & Operations Support
- Technical support to Mission Operations for routine payload health monitoring, contingency
handling and performance trending.
- Lead rootâcause investigations for onâorbit anomalies; update design baselines and
lessonsâlearned.
- Analyze onâorbit telemetry, update filter parameters, and generate performance reports.
- Define SOOH and associated operator training.
Required Qualifications:
ďˇ B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering, Aerospace or Physics (M.Sc. preferred) with 12 + years of digital
regenerative payload system design experience on LEO/MEO missions.
ďˇ Comprehensive knowledge of digital regenerative communications, SDR, DSP, DVB RCS/SX
protocols, Modulation schemes, Class of Service, Networking, MPLS, 2G, 5G, NTN.
ďˇ Strong technical writing ability (requirements, ICDs, test procedures, risk reports) and
presentation skills; comfortable interfacing with customers, suppliers and senior leadership.
ďˇ Strong understanding of aerospace system engineering fundamentals.
ďˇ Hands-on individual who can support systems integration processes and capability to test
systems and resolve problems.
ďˇ Experience with Confluence and JIRA.
ďˇ Demonstrated capability to efficiently work with little supervision.
ďˇ Ability to distill complex problems to fundamentals to solve with analysis, similarity, or
creativity.
ďˇ Demonstrate excellent written and oral communication skills in English; knowledge of French
will be considered an asset (Contact with clients outside Quebec and work on deliverables in
English).
