Lightspeed Network Engineering Co-op Student (Fall 2026)

The Telesat Lightspeed Network Engineering team is responsible for the end-to-end network design of Telesat’s Lightspeed Low Earth Orbit network.

This Co-Op opportunity will leverage software automation and latest AI-based capabilities to help improve and streamline the network engineering team’s design, validation and documentation deliverables in preparation for Lightspeed launch.

**Main Responsibilities:**

+ Build high-quality software components to enable automation of network configuration and validation tasks.
+ Apply latest AI tools and methodologies to help accelerate and improve network validation and documentation deliverables
+ Participate in Network Engineering’s day to day design, integration and validation activities.
+ Deliver assigned task within scheduled timeframes and with accountability for quality.

**Qualifications:**

+ Experience in software development in Linux based environments
+ Proficient in Python programming language for automation and testing tasks




+ Experience with Git as a software version control tool and GitHub as a software repository
+ Experience with latest AI tools for software development, test and documentation activities such as Co-Pilot, Qodo, Rovo, etc.
+ Experience with Ansible IT automation environments
+ Strong troubleshooting skills
+ Demonstrate ability to function in a collaborative work workplace.

**Nice to Haves:**

+ General understanding of networking concepts such as IP addressing, ethernet switching and IP routing.
+ Knowledge and/or experience in compute virtualization environments such as VMware ESXi or VirtualBox, Proxmox VE
+ Experience with enterprise productivity and collaboration tools such as Confluence and JIRA.
+ Experience with network test tools like Ixia IxNetwork and Spirent TestCenter and related programming APIs

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📌 Lightspeed Network Engineering Co op Student (Fall 2026) (Ottawa)
🏢 Telesat
📍 Ottawa