Our client, a leading defence organisation, urgently require an experienced End to End Communications & Navigation Systems Engineer to join the team on a permanent basis.
In order to be successful, you will have the following experience:
- Experienced within communications and/or navigation systems engineering, within the Space domain
- Solid experience and expertise with system engineering gained from space applications such as communications, navigation, earth observation, or exploration
- Ideally Masters degree/ PhD in Telecommunications or Electronic engineering
- Able to obtain SC Cleared
Within this role, you will be responsible for:
- Support the development of new applications for space technologies, specifically supporting Communications and Navigation Services
- Assessing and defining architectures for end-to-end communications and navigation systems, and contributing to design of the associated functions and techniques within the system, from physical layer up to the application layer
- Assessing the end-to-end (including user) communication and navigation system design and performance in real and simulated scenarios, including performance budgets and analysis, (dynamic) link budgets, data flow analysis, and capacity and volume assessment, including interaction between different link layers, and assessment of related encryption and authentication functions
- Supporting projects throughout all phases in respect of follow-up of industrial activities relating to end-to-end communication and navigation systems on the space, ground or user segments, including system level design and trade-offs, architecture design, system development, verification and acceptance
- Participation in the preparation of relevant standards and their impact/implementation related to bodies including ECSS and CCSDS, and performing the associated technical supporting work; application and tailoring of standards;
- Contributing to the definition of the Agency's R&D activities for long- and short-term needs, and addressing concepts and techniques related to EtE System Communications and Navigation;
- Participating in mission studies, project reviews and support to procurement proposals.
This represents an excellent opportunity to secure an interesting and high profile contract, within a dynamic organisation.
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