Senior Manager Radio System Engineering

MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Bring expert-level experience in taking an RF design to market, where you contributed to the RF trade space. Trade space includes aspects like ACP, PAR, out-of-band emissions, pass-band ripple, group delay, etc. You will support the existing team in finalizing the definition of all aspects of the radio system implementation involving agile multi-beam phased array antennas using beam hopping.
• Support the definition of operations for all phases of the functional requirements, including user terminal commissioning, network entry, satellite handovers, time synchronization, adaptive coding, and modulation (ACM), among others.
• You will serve as the principal system architect for defining all air interfaces between the user terminals, landing stations, and satellite payloads.
• Work with system architects, RF engineers, antenna engineers, and user terminal and landing station engineers to partition functions between hardware and software domains.
• Work with the system modeling team to provide guidance on system design assumptions to be considered in the system model.
• Develop strategies for modeling link performance accounting for impairments of the different elements in the system.
• Collaborate with the Verification and Test group to plan proper validation of the requirements to ensure appropriate system performance.
• Stay involved within the DVB standard forum and provide recommendations as part of Telesat's engagement on the forum.

EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:

• B. Sc. in Electrical, Computer, or System Engineering and at least 15 years of relevant experience in RF communications systems and/or RF equipment manufacturing.
• Experience taking an RF design through iterations and specification changes through low-rate equipment production.
• Experience in system design, requirement management, and communication systems performance assessments
• Desired knowledge of DVB standards such as DVB-S2X and DVB-RCS2 standard
• Knowledge of digital communication systems, spread spectrum, single and multi-carrier techniques, modulation types such as PSK, APSK, QAM
• Have a good understanding of MATLAB or other tools for modeling and analyzing RF communication systems.
• Thorough understanding of RF passive and active components
• Experience characterizing radio performance at microwave frequencies, including rain fade and its effects on the communication links.
• Knowledge of RF transceiver architectures and digital communication theory
• Highly collaborative team player who can quickly earn the confidence of co-workers and teammates.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills in English, demonstrating that you have communicated effectively with management, engineering teams, and partners/suppliers.

DECISION MAKING & SUPERVISION:

• In this role, the incumbent will provide leadership and make important technical recommendations on implementing the Lightspeed System design.
• This role will expand during the program to an organization of between 3 and 6 engineering staff.

WORKING CONDITIONS:

• Typical office environment or Home Office
• laboratory environment in Ottawa, Bethesda and home office if you have equipment.
• Some occasional travel to vendors in the USA and Canada