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As a Senior Systems MTS, Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Missions, you may have a wide range of responsibilities that include:

• →Contributes to end-end of the SAR related engineering activities for the full lifecycle of a SAR space mission
• →Contributes to the Mission Concept of Operations development and defines high-level mission specifications to meet user requirements, including spacecraft budgets to inform the SAR payload
• →Lead technical solutioning for enhancements to existing and future SAR Missions; includes beam mode design, SAR mission concept design, and SAR image quality modelling
• →Participates in mission technical risk management, integration, verification and validation at the Mission Level
• →Responsible for design trade-off studies between various dimensions of the mission including: Spacecraft Systems, Coverage and Access, SAR Payload, SAR Processor and end-user applications
• →Key member in leading the team to successful commissioning, calibration and early operations of space SAR Missions
• →Provide sound technical guidance to upper management and new business
• →Developing team members through mentoring and coaching

• Graduate degree in Electrical Engineering, Engineering Physics, Math, Physics, or a combination of related education and experience
• 10 or more years working with radar, SAR or similar active imaging systems, including work on hardware, processors and/or data products
• 5 or more years working in a space systems engineering environment or similar complex systems engineering environment
• Experience in SAR remote sensing, including system design, operation, applications/exploitation and/or calibration
• Experience in different types of engineering life cycles as applicable for large complex programs
• Self-starter with the ability to perform in a dynamic working environment;
• Possess excellent problem solving skills
• Superb interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills to explain concepts to wide-ranging audiences (e.g. technical team, sales team, executives, customers, etc)
• The ability to work within a large organization and understand dependencies and stakeholder needs.

• Ability and knowledge to work with MATLAB, Python;
• Appreciation for satellite based SAR Payload design and operations;
• Appreciation of Space Mission design (e.g. Coverage and Access, orbital dynamics, etc);
• Appreciation of Spacecraft design (e.g. Thermal, Power, Pointing accuracy, etc);
• Ability to learn new technologies and domain knowledge quickly; and
• A strong understanding of geospatial data.

Successful candidates must obtain and hold security clearance at the reliability status level and pass security assessment for the Controlled Goods Program (CGP).