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 chance 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 environment.

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 Ixi...IxNetwork and Spirent TestCenter and related programming APIs

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