satellite communications engineer

ICEYE provides persistent monitoring capabilities using its SAR satellite constellation to detect and respond to changes anywhere on Earth. Its satellite-based intelligence serves customers in defence and intelligence, environmental monitoring, insurance, and emergency management.

• Own the architecture of the satellite-to-ground link across X-band and Ka-band payload downlink and S-band command and control
• Measure the constellation’s delivery against its theoretical capacity and lead work to close the gap
• Design data flows from ground stations to customers, including latency tiers and delivery accounting
• Build alongside software engineers by contributing code and reviews, not only architecture documents
• Lead technical initiatives across team boundaries and align teams on link and data path decisions
• Grow satellite communications expertise across the domain through mentoring, design reviews, and shared standards

• Communications engineering experience on at least one flown mission, including personally diagnosing an anomaly on a live satellite
• High-rate payload downlink experience in X-band or Ka-band, beyond S-band command and control
• Ability to build and defend a link budget, including EIRP, G/T, Eb/N0, margin, rain fade, and elevation constraints
• Practical CCSDS knowledge, including transfer frames, virtual channels, synchronisation and channel coding, and file delivery
• Experience owning data flows from a ground station to where data is consumed, with latency and completeness guarantees
• Hands-on coding experience in Python, Go, C++ or similar, with a track record of shipping code
• Будет плюсом: Active use of AI-assisted development tools such as copilots and LLMs, fleet-scale contact planning and scheduling across commercial ground station networks (especially leased third-party capacity), DVB-S2/S2X with adaptive coding and modulation, delay-tolerant networking or other store-and-forward file delivery with completeness accounting, SDR and DSP work using GNU Radio, FPGA or RFSoC (including personal or open-source projects), awareness of spectrum regulation and coordination

• Employment is subject to applicable security screening (including SUPO, where required)
• Benefits support health and wellbeing; offerings vary by location and applicable benefits will be confirmed during the process