Satcom Ground Systems Engineer

Novaspace Technology is the engineering and operations arm of the Novaspace group. It has more than 50 customers in developed and emerging space markets across the world and across the space ecosystem, including satellite operators, governmental and international organizations, financial institutions, and insurance brokers and companies.

Novaspace Technology has developed expertise and know-how around a portfolio of services and capabilities covering the complete lifecycle of a space project, from feasibility studies and project development to operations and training support.

As Satcom Ground System Engineer, you will be in charge of ground segment topics in our missions on Satellite Communication System.

The scope includes the different main constitutive elements of a Satcom Ground Segment:

Primary Role And Responsibilities

• Satellite control centre (SCC including FDS, Ground & Satellite Operational Procedures, MCC, TT&C)
• Network Operation Centre (including NMS, M&Cs, CSM, OSS/BSS, SLA analytics, DB management)
• Gateways
• Teleport
• User terminals

Depending on the mission, you may be involved at different stage of a Space System Project

• Concept Stage: performing analysis of innovative architecture or different trade-offs on satcom ground systems
• Feasibility Stage: performing collection of user’s needs, generation and comparison of high-level preliminary designs, generation of high-level system requirements, system cost assessment and cost trade-offs.
• Procurement stage: performing generation/review of the ground system specifications as part of the technical exhibit of an RFP, analysis and comparison of the different proposals received from the industry, final negotiation of the contract.
• Construction stage: monitoring the execution of an industrial contract to design, build, integrate, test and commission a ground system; support program reviews including reviews and comments of data package, prepare and attend Factory and on-site Acceptance Testing, prepare and attend end to end Ground Segment testing.
• Operations stage: supporting customers in the operations of its systems

Responsibilities include

• Lead or support ground segment engineering activities for a telecom project
• Understand and capture Customer needs
• Assess and identify the technologies necessary for the implementation of the system architecture, including their associated risks
• Analyze ground system operations and contribute to the generation/review of the Concept Of Operations of the system
• Support and provide expertise to the system level security risk analyses, including interface inputs and analyses
• Analyze, review or generate requirements and definition baselines of ground systems (both control and mission)
• Analyze/review or perform the development, verification and validation of ground/mission procedures
• Provide support to mission simulation activities
• Interface with customers for ground systems topics
• Prepare and participate in project reviews and workshops
• Participate in technical proposals and studies

Qualifications and Experience

• Master’s degree in engineering, preferably in aerospace, telecommunications, or electrical engineering
• At least ten (10) years of practical industry experience in communications systems
• Good knowledge of systems using analogue and digital satellite payloads, HTS system, constellation, end-to-end satcom infrastructure as well as satcom service provider platforms; IT/Infrastructure & network; Requirement management; System engineering; System Operations
• Experience in designing, integrating, testing, operating and maintaining ground segments, and associated equipment
• Ability to appreciate both the commercial and operational requirements
• Proficient in writing reports and preparing corresponding PowerPoint presentations, adjusted to the message to be transmitted and to the level of the audience
• Fluent in English
• Applied and rigorous both on the technical and organisational aspects of your work
• Autonomous, adaptable
• Team spirit, communication skills
• Strong presentation and interpersonal skills; ability to collaborate daily with Satconsult engineers and customers; good communicator within team and when presenting to clients or at conferences
• Ability to travel as our clients' sites or operations could be anywhere in the world (Europe, Middle East, Asia, the Americas)