Satellite Engineer Job Description
Satellite Engineer Duties & Responsibilities
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Satellite Engineer Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Licensing or Certifications for Satellite Engineer
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: II, III, FAA, IAT, IOM, TLS, SSL, HTTP/HTTPS, TCP/IP, RHCE
Education for Satellite Engineer
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the satellite engineer job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Master's Degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Technical, Physics, Science, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, Computer Engineering, Education, Aerospace Engineering
Skills for Satellite Engineer
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Desired experience for satellite engineer includes:
Satellite Engineer Examples
Satellite Engineer Job Description
- Be a part of the distributed team, working both on your own and in tight collaboration and regular communication with other team members
- Cooperate with the Spacewalk community and contributors
- Submit features and improvements to upstream projects
- Be a part of the distributed team, working both on your own and in regular communication with team members
- Design and quality investigations to improve quality of vehicles and ensure customer satisfaction
- Collaboration and good working relationship between Plant, Field Quality, Customer Satisfaction and R&D to foster quick problem solving
- Quick and continuous improvement required for Warranty, internal and external quality metrics
- Improve quality improvement speed to resolve engineering and design issues
- Collaborate on field quality issues to quickly identify root cause & countermeasure, both short & long term
- Prevent defect out-flow to reduce warranty via Design change
- Database Management – Oracle/MySQL/Sybase
- Backups/Restoration/Associated tools(NetBackup)
- Hardware skills
- VMWare/Veritas Cluster/High Availability/RDP/Citrix
- SNMP/Corba/XML/SOAP
- Good understanding of Networking protocols (TCP/IP)
Satellite Engineer Job Description
- Designing operational system updates
- Create, analyze, and design operational updates to the Ku satellite network such as map files, configuration files, and regulatory files that ensure continued operation at the highest efficiency
- Lead trade study analysis on satellite system design and the most efficient use of capacity by performing RF analysis of the system components
- Support, design and testing of new products and services in the lab and field
- Technical focal to resolve operational issues
- Oversee/own and resolve complex technical issues with the operations of satellite network
- Manage technical issue resolutions that require cross functional team work
- Provide Level 3(high level) technical support to the Operations Center
- Review and monitor operational performance
- Generate, review, and design periodic performance metrics that ensure the proper operation of the eXConnect network
- Perform Level 2 routine preventative and corrective maintenance
- Ability to further develop skills associated with tasks listed above
- Must have UNIX/Linux + Windows server experience
- Experience with routine systems administration tasks associated with preventative maintenance(backups/daily checks)
- User/security management
- UNIX Shell Scripting/Perl, Automation
Satellite Engineer Job Description
- Coordinate PAC interaction with GCS partners
- Lead the coordination of equipment, network and process change introductions with internal PAC departments and indentify systemic issues with 3rd party vendors
- Deploy and configuration control of system updates
- Generate, review, and approve the technical requirements and plan for deploying updates to the system
- Maintain configuration control of software and hardware interoperability requirements
- Work to continuously improve the efficiency of GCS
- Oversee automation of processes
- Maintain detailed documentation of network configuration and decisions
- Conducting failure analysis for performance of the orbiting satellites via telemetry data
- Providing classroom instruction on satellite subsystem operations for Air Force engineers and crew force operators
- Perform acceptance tests on new OSS equipment/sites/systems
- Database/ SQL scripting
- Good understanding of SNMP
- Hardware skills – ILO/ HP Blade/ HW System/EMC/ RAID
- A graduate from a 4 year institution with a major in Applied Math, Electrical Engineering, Aeronautical/Astro Engineering, Computer Science, or Computer Engineering
- Matlab programming, C#, C++ or Java programming, database programming, and web interface development
Satellite Engineer Job Description
- Perform subsystem training on satellite operations to include lecture and on job training
- Providing satellite operations technical analysis support on a spacecraft subsystem basis for DSP satellites
- Must be able to act as liaison between multiple crews and agencies to facilitate solutions to problems
- Possess effective written, verbal, presentation, and interpersonal skills with the ability to translate technical data into a format understood by non-technical individuals
- Development of assembly and integration processes for prototype spacecraft builds, and associated subsystems (Avionics, Bus, Payload)
- Layout prototype assembly area and material flow, including determining necessary space, equipment, and facility requirements
- Identify, design, and procure necessary workstations, assembly equipment, fixtures, and material handling equipment
- Maximize material flow and manufacturing processes for Hardware in the Loop in-process test systems for subsystem and vehicle assembly
- Design / build handling systems to enable various levels of partial-assembly testing during prototype development
- Perform qualification of assembly equipment, including dimensional characterization, gage R&R and factorial experimentation where necessary
- Ability to build queries and reports from MySQL or SQL database tables
- Experience utilizing Excel for data analysis and development of reports
- Ability to plan engineering activities and to perform assigned tasks
- Familiarity with RF communications and/or inflight connectivity systems a plus
- 20+ years’ of engineering experience with satellite bus systems
- Experience with early life-cycle satellite engineering activities/milestones, spacecraft integration & test, and Launch & Initialization (L&I) activities
Satellite Engineer Job Description
- Participate in hands-on assembly of mechanical prototype, including build of avionics, ADCS, mechanisms, structures, and routing of harnesses
- Coordinate and/or perform necessary rework on prototype mechanical parts
- Analyze and resolve manufacturing issues with design and test teams
- Coordinate work efforts with other various other Engineers
- Low level requirements capture, flow-down and traceability
- Architectural design and partitioning of hardware – software products, and of major embedded software components
- Design, documentation and coding of real-time embedded software in accordance with the software development life-cycle in C and C++
- Development of test harnesses and frameworks for module and integration testing of code in a host development environment on the target
- Development of device drivers and interrupt routines on 16-bit and 32-bit MPUs and micro-controllers
- Performing system level testing of a satellite payload and its subsystems
- Maintain the maintenance lab’s configuration consistent with testing needs and priorities
- Experience working as a Systems or Software Engineers in the software development life cycle
- Knowledge of System Engineering lifecycle processes including development and deployment
- Experience scripting with languages
- Experience with troubleshooting Microsoft Windows and Networking
- Ability to establish and maintain good working relationship with all levels of the organization