Satellite & Payload Verification, Validation & Integration Systems Engineer

MDA; Montreal (administrative region); On-site; CAD 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

MDA seeks a Satellite & Payload IVV Engineer to lead end-to-end verification, validation, and integration of satellite hardware and software. You will drive test plans, strategies, and data analysis across development, qualification and testing for current and future telecommunication or remote sensing satellites.

The role requires coordinating cross-disciplinary teams, mentoring junior engineers, and delivering reports while ensuring traceability and readiness before launch and during on-orbit

Qualifications

• 5+ years of satellite system engineering experience on LEO/MEO missions.
• Knowledge of spacecraft subsystems and their interactions.
• Experience with requirements management and configuration control.
• Strong technical writing and presentation skills; interfacing with customers, suppliers and leadership.
• English communication; French knowledge is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain verification & validation requirements for satellite and payload.
• Produce V&V matrices linking requirements to tests.
• Develop Test & Validation Plans and procedures; manage test data.
• Lead integration strategy and build integration test benches.
• Oversee subsystem and system level tests (functional, RF, environmental, etc.).
• Support FDIR implementation and on-orbit troubleshooting.
• Coordinate activities across hardware, software, EGSE, and platform teams.
• Mentor junior engineers and support reviews (SRR, PDR, CDR).
• Deliver test reports and ensure artefacts are version controlled in PLM.

Skills

Systems engineering

Requirements management

Test planning

Traceability

Cross-functional coordination

Technical writing

Mentorship

Education

BSc in Electrical Engineering, Aerospace, or Physics

Tools

Confluence

JIRA

Job description

MDA is seeking a Satellite & Payload IVV Engineer to join its System Engineering Department. He/she will lead the end-to-end V&V and integration of satellite and payload hardware and software, ensuring that all requirements are met, traceable, and demonstrably verified before launch and throughout the on-orbit phase. The role spans the full lifecycle and will coordinate cross-disciplinary teams, develop Test Plans and test strategies, for development, qualification and testing in support of our current and future generations of telecommunication or remote Sensing satellites.

Role overview:

MDA is seeking a Satellite & Payload IVV Engineer to join its System Engineering Department. He/she will lead the end-to-end V&V and integration of satellite and payload hardware and software, ensuring that all requirements are met, traceable, and demonstrably verified before launch and throughout the on-orbit phase. The role spans the full lifecycle and will coordinate cross-disciplinary teams, develop Test & Plans and test strategies, for development, qualification and testing in support of our current and future generations of telecommunication or remote Sensing satellites.

Tasks summary:

Requirements & Planning

• Define and maintain system-level verification & validation requirements for satellite and payload.
• Produce Verification & Validation matrices linking requirements to test cases, including fault management.
• Author and maintain Test & Validation Plans, test requirements and procedures, and test data-management documents.
• Perform requirement test management and maintain bidirectional traceability throughout the program life cycle.

Integration Strategy

• Develop integration and validation strategies for the DSS and FlatSat platforms.
• Lead the design and build of integration test benches, ensuring alignment with interface control documents (ICDs).

Test Execution & Data Analysis

• Oversee execution of subsystem and system level tests (functional, performance, environmental, RF, FSW integration and Reference Database validation).
• Supervise data acquisition, trend analysis, and automated post-processing; evaluate non-compliances and drive corrective actions.

FDIR & Fault Management

• Support payload-to-platform FDIR implementation through test.
• Support satellite and payload troubleshooting during integration, test, and on-orbit phases.

Cross-functional Coordination, Stakeholder & Program Interaction

• Communicate technical status, risk assessments and trade-study results to senior management and/or customers or partners.
• Coordinate activities across hardware, software, EGSE, and Platform/payload teams.
• Support B&P (Phase 0 & pre-phase A).

Technical Leadership & Mentorship

• Mentor, guide junior engineers and interns.
• Act as technical liaison with customers, partners and external vendors
• Act as Continuous Improvement stakeholder
• Contribute to MDA’s knowledge-base, process enhancements, and standards development.

Configuration, Documentation & Standards Management

• Author and maintain MDA satellite test standards (margin philosophy, efficiency, DFT, DFM, safety...etc.).
• Deliver clear, concise test reports, verification summaries, and lessons-learned documentation.
• Ensure all artefacts, analysis, deliverables and documentations are version controlled in PLM environment.
• Lead and Support design reviews (SRR, PDR, CDR, MRR/TRR...etc.).
• Support Technology Road-Mapping & Innovation.

Orbit Support & Operations Support

• Support the Operations team during EOR, anomaly resolution, and post-launch validation.
• Provide technical support to Mission Operations for routine payload and bus health monitoring, contingency handling and performance trending.
• Lead root-cause investigations for on-orbit anomalies; update design baselines and lessons-learned.
• Analyse on-orbit telemetry, update filter parameters, and generate performance reports.
• Support SOOH development and associated operator training.

Required Qualifications:

• Sc. in Electrical Engineering, Aerospace, or Physics with 5+ years of satellite system engineering experience on LEO/MEO missions.
• Comprehensive knowledge of Spacecraft subsystems and their interactions.
• Experience with requirements management, configuration control and system architecture documentation.
• Strong technical writing ability (requirements, ICDs, test procedures, risk reports) and presentation skills; comfortable interfacing with customers, suppliers and senior leadership.
• Strong understanding of aerospace system engineering fundamentals.
• Hands-on individual who can support systems integration processes and capability to test systems and resolve problems.
• Experience with Confluence and JIRA.
• Demonstrated capability to efficiently work with little supervision.
• Ability to distill complex problems to fundamentals to solve with analysis, similarity, or creativity.
• Demonstrate excellent written and oral communication skills in English; knowledge of French will be considered an asset (Contact with clients outside Quebec and work on deliverables in English).

Comments/Special Considerations:

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