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Senior System Validation Engineer – Satellite Ground Station
Not specifiedFull-timeSystem Assuranceaerospacesatellite communications
Join a satellite communications engineering team validating complex ground station systems that combine hardware, software, embedded firmware, RF components, and IP communications.
Responsibilities
- Validate satellite ground station physical-layer, hardware, and software systems
- Study system architecture and requirements and contribute to requirement-based test plans
- Define and write automated test plans and procedures for new systems and features
- Build automated regression and manual test setups
- Perform system integration, feature enablement, system bring-up, debugging, and regression testing
- Record, investigate, and analyze defects and determine root causes of test failures
- Coordinate corrective actions with development teams
- Support test management tools and continuous integration practices
- Analyze and post-process collected test data
- Prepare regular test execution summaries and metrics
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in electronic engineering
- At least 5 years of system validation experience
- Hands-on laboratory validation of complex hardware, software, or embedded designs
- Knowledge of RF physical-layer testing and experience operating spectrum analyzers, VNAs, signal generators, power meters, and high-speed sampling oscilloscopes
- Experience developing automated validation tests using Python, C#, C++, or a similar programming language
- Experience testing IP networking systems and knowledge of IP communication protocols and complex network performance
- Experience planning, estimating, and developing system tests
- Ability to learn independently, adapt to change, collaborate effectively, and manage multiple tasks
Nice to have
- Experience with Atlassian JIRA and Confluence
- Experience with DVB-S2X or related satellite communication protocols