(Fastwater Staffing) Senior Systems Engineer (MTS), SAR Missions - Fully Remote

Location: United States Our client, a global leader in Earth-observation satellites, is hiring a Senior Systems Engineer (MTS), SAR Missions. Fully remote from the US is fine for the first couple of years; relocation to the Vancouver, BC area later is optional, not required. What you will do • Contribute end-to-end to SAR engineering across the full lifecycle of a SAR space mission • Contribute to the mission concept of operations and high-level mission specs, including spacecraft budgets for the SAR payload • Lead technical solutions for mission enhancements: beam mode design, mission concept design, image quality modelling • Take part in mission-level risk management, integration, verification and validation • Own design trade-offs across spacecraft systems, coverage and access, SAR payload, SAR processor and end-user applications • Key member of the team through commissioning, calibration and early operations; mentor others What you need • Graduate degree in Electrical Engineering, Engineering Physics, Math or Physics (or equivalent) • 10+ years with radar, SAR or similar active imaging systems (hardware, processors and/or data products) • 5+ years in a space systems engineering or similar complex systems environment • SAR remote sensing experience: system design, operation, applications/exploitation and/or calibration • Strong communicator • US citizen or permanent resident Nice to have : MATLAB, Python; satellite SAR payload design and operations; space mission design; spacecraft design; geospatial data.