Senior User Terminal Systems Engineer (LEO)

Telesat; Ottawa; Hybrid; CAD 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Telesat, headquartered in Ottawa, is seeking a User Terminal System Engineering Specialist to drive requirements development for Lightspeed User Terminal products. You will define architecture, ensure traceability, and align test evidence with customer and product objectives.

The role requires independent work with internal teams, suppliers, and program stakeholders across design, verification, and delivery while supporting multiple terminal configurations and travel as needed.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Systems Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• 9 to 14 years of relevant engineering experience in systems engineering, satellite communications, telecommunications, aerospace, networking, or a related field.
• Experience supporting complex multidisciplinary product-development activities across requirements, design, integration, verification, and delivery.

Responsibilities

• Develop, review, clarify, and maintain User Terminal requirements, PRDs, interfaces, and supporting system documentation.
• Perform requirements updates, decomposition, allocation, traceability, and compliance analysis across terminal hardware, modems, software, and integrated solutions.
• Develop requirements-to-test mappings, verification methods, compliance matrices, and objective-evidence links.
• Write CONOPS and requirements for fixed, mobility, and maritime applications.
• Participate in requirements reviews, design reviews, architecture discussions, workshops, and supplier meetings.
• Coordinate with RF, antenna, modem, waveform, FPGA, software, networking, integration, test, product, and program teams.
• Support terminal vendors and partners through review of requirements, interfaces, designs, risks, and verification evidence.
• Support contractual requirements reviews, bids, proposals, CDRLs, test reports, and customer deliverables.
• Update and maintain Capella operational and functional architecture models.

Skills

Systems engineering

Requirements allocation

Traceability

Verification

Technical writing

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical/Computer/Systems Engineering or Aerospace Engineering

Tools

Jama

DOORS

Capella

Jira

Confluence

Job description

Telesat, headquartered in Ottawa, is seeking a User Terminal System Engineering Specialist to drive requirements development for Lightspeed User Terminal products. You will define architecture, ensure traceability, and align test evidence with customer and product objectives.

The role requires independent work with internal teams, suppliers, and program stakeholders across design, verification, and delivery while supporting multiple terminal configurations and travel as needed.