Satellite Digital Payload Architect (Regenerative & Onboard)

Coris Innovation Group; Gland; On-site; CHF 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Coris Innovation is recruiting an experienced Digital Payload Systems Engineer to join an international satellite communications company in Lausanne, Switzerland. The role covers the full engineering lifecycle from requirements flow-down to in-orbit activities, focusing on digital and regenerative payload architectures.

You will work with multidisciplinary teams to define architectures, interfaces, and test plans, contributing to design reviews and technical documentation for stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Eight+ years of relevant professional experience in satellite telecommunications is required.
• Master's degree or PhD in Telecommunications, Electronics, Electrical Engineering, Space Systems or related discipline.
• Candidates must hold Swiss or EU citizenship or a valid Swiss work permit.

Responsibilities

• Define and develop digital telecommunications payload architectures.
• Contribute to on-board processing, regenerative payload and digital processing architectures.
• Translate mission and system needs into payload and subsystem requirements.
• Define and manage interfaces between payload hardware, software and digital subsystems.
• Prepare and present technical documentation to internal and external stakeholders.
• Support payload development through design, integration, verification and qualification phases.
• Participate in major engineering and design reviews.

Skills

Satellite payload architecture

Digital payloads

On-board processing

Modem & DSP

Hardware/software interfaces

Education

Master's degree or PhD in Telecommunications, Electronics, Electrical Engineering, Space Systems or related

Tools

FPGA/SoC toolchains

RF analysis tools

Job description

Coris Innovation is recruiting an experienced Digital Payload Systems Engineer to join an international satellite communications company in Lausanne, Switzerland. The role covers the full engineering lifecycle from requirements flow-down to in-orbit activities, focusing on digital and regenerative payload architectures.

You will work with multidisciplinary teams to define architectures, interfaces, and test plans, contributing to design reviews and technical documentation for stakeholders.