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Role Overview:
- You will contribute end-to-end to SAR engineering across the full lifecycle of a SAR space mission.
- You will lead technical solutions for mission enhancements and own design trade-offs across systems.
Responsibilities:
- Contribute to mission concept of operations, high-level specs, and spacecraft budgets for the SAR payload.
- Take part in risk management, integration, verification, and validation.
- Support commissioning, calibration, and early operations; mentor others.
Requirements:
- Graduate degree in electrical engineering, physics, math, or equivalent.
- 10+ years with radar or SAR imaging systems, with 5+ years in space systems engineering.
- Strong communication skills and US citizenship or permanent residency.
HIKINEX
Our client is a global leader in Earth-observation satellites. They are hiring a senior systems engineer to lead SAR mission engineering from concept through operations.