Senior User Terminal Systems Engineer – LEO & RF

Lever, Inc.; Ottawa; Hybrid; CAD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Telesat seeks an experienced User Terminal System Engineering Specialist to advance requirements development and maintenance for Lightspeed User Terminal products. You will define architecture, ensure traceability, and verify compliance, collaborating across engineering, suppliers, and programs.

The role emphasizes creating testable requirements, managing PRDs, and supporting contracts and CDRLs while coordinating with hardware, modem, software, and network teams in a hybrid Ottawa environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant engineering discipline.
• 9–14 years of engineering experience in systems engineering, satellite communications, aerospace, or related fields.
• Experience supporting complex multidisciplinary product development across requirements, design, integration, verification, and delivery.

Responsibilities

• Develop, review, clarify, and maintain user terminal requirements, PRDs, interfaces, and 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 reviews, design discussions, architecture 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 reviews, bids, CDRLs, test reports, and customer deliverables.
• Update Capella operational and functional architecture models.

Skills

Systems Engineering

Requirements Management

Requirements Traceability

Documentation Writing

Cross-functional Coordination

Analytical Skills

Technical Presentation

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical/Computing/Systems Engineering or related

Tools

Jama

DOORS

Capella

Jira

Confluence

Job description

Telesat seeks an experienced User Terminal System Engineering Specialist to advance requirements development and maintenance for Lightspeed User Terminal products. You will define architecture, ensure traceability, and verify compliance, collaborating across engineering, suppliers, and programs.

The role emphasizes creating testable requirements, managing PRDs, and supporting contracts and CDRLs while coordinating with hardware, modem, software, and network teams in a hybrid Ottawa environment.