Title: Staff Systems Engineer – Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Missions

Work arrangement: On-site Monday–Thursday

Hours: Generally 8:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.

Contract: 1 year Contract with possible extension

Security: Must be eligible for Reliability clearance and Controlled Goods (Must be living in Canada at least 5 years)

Responsibilities

- Oversee SAR engineering activities throughout the full space-mission lifecycle.
- Develop mission concepts of operations and high-level specifications.
- Lead SAR mission enhancements, including beam-mode design, mission concepts and image-quality modelling.
- Manage mission-level technical risks, integration, verification and validation.
- Conduct trade-off studies involving spacecraft systems, coverage, SAR payloads, processors and user applications.
- Support mission commissioning, calibration and early operations.
- Provide technical guidance to leadership and mentor team members.

Required Qualifications





- Master’s degree or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Engineering Physics, Mathematics or Physics.
- 15+ years of experience with radar, SAR or similar active imaging systems.
- 10+ years in space systems engineering or another complex systems environment.
- Experience with SAR system design, operations, applications, exploitation or calibration.
- Knowledge of engineering lifecycles for large, complex programs.
- Strong problem-solving, communication and stakeholder-management skills.

Desired Qualifications

- MATLAB and Python experience.
- Knowledge of satellite SAR payload design and operations.
- Understanding of mission design, orbital dynamics and coverage analysis.
- Familiarity with spacecraft thermal, power and pointing systems.
- Solid understanding of geospatial data.

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