Senior SAR Mission Systems Architect

MDA; Ville de Richmond; On-site; CAD 116,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Benefits package

Security clearance support

Job summary

MDA Space seeks a Senior Systems MTS, Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Missions, to lead end-to-end engineering for SAR space missions and to shape mission concepts and high-level specifications. You will be integral to beam design, mission concept development, and risk management in a large, collaborative organization.

You will mentor teammates, provide technical guidance, and contribute to new business while ensuring rigorous design and verification.

Qualifications

• Graduate degree in Electrical Engineering, Engineering Physics, Math, Physics, or a combination of related education and experience.
• 10+ years working with radar, SAR or similar active imaging systems, including hardware, processors and/or data products.
• 5+ years in a space systems engineering environment or similar complex systems engineering context.
• Experience in SAR remote sensing, including system design, operation, applications/exploitation and/or calibration.
• Experience with different engineering life cycles for large complex programs.
• Self-starter with the ability to perform in a dynamic environment; strong problem solving.
• Excellent interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to work within a large organization and align stakeholder needs.

Responsibilities

• Contributes to end-end SAR engineering activities for full mission lifecycle.
• Contributes to Mission Concept of Operations and high-level specifications including spacecraft budgets for SAR payload.
• Lead technical solutioning for enhancements to existing and future SAR missions; beam mode design and image quality modelling.
• Participate in mission technical risk management, integration, verification and validation at Mission Level.
• Perform design trade-off studies across spacecraft systems, SAR payload, processor and end-user applications.
• Lead the team through commissioning, calibration and early operations of SAR missions.
• Provide technical guidance to upper management and new business opportunities.
• Mentor and coach developing team members.

Skills

SAR expertise

Systems engineering

Problem solving

Communication skills

Education

Graduate degree in Electrical Engineering, Engineering Physics, Math, Physics

Tools

MATLAB

Python

Job description

MDA Space seeks a Senior Systems MTS, Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Missions, to lead end-to-end engineering for SAR space missions and to shape mission concepts and high-level specifications. You will be integral to beam design, mission concept development, and risk management in a large, collaborative organization.

You will mentor teammates, provide technical guidance, and contribute to new business while ensuring rigorous design and verification.