User Terminal Senior Modem Engineer - OneWeb Next

Eutelsat Communications SA; Issy-les-Moulineaux; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Eutelsat Communications SA is seeking a hands-on User Terminal Senior Modem Engineer to help develop the next generation LEO, multi-orbit, and IRIS² terminals. You will work on a single-chip modem module with a programmable PHY, protocol stack, and host processor, sharing a common SoC and RISC-V control subsystem.

The role focuses on bringing up the platform, building bench infrastructure, automating campaigns, and verifying performance against golden vectors, with emphasis on RF front-end

Qualifications

• Engineering degree or MSc in electronics, telecommunications, signal processing or computer science.
• 6 to 12 years in embedded signal processing, wireless PHY, modem integration or SD-Radio.

Responsibilities

• Bring the platform up: toolchains, boot, firmware images, and initial signalling.
• Work inside the PHY software: optimize signal processing kernels and glue code.
• Build and own the laboratory bench: RF chain, vector signal generators, analyzers and calibration.
• Automate campaigns, regression testing, and results reporting.
• Execute acceptance and characterization campaigns per architect guidelines.
• Document setups and results for knowledge sharing.

Skills

Embedded signal processing

Modem integration

Education

Engineering degree

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User Terminal Senior Modem Engineer - OneWeb Next

Country/Region: FR

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We are looking for a hands-on modem engineer to work side by side with our modem architect on the physical layer of Eutelsat's next generation LEO, multi-orbit and IRIS² user terminals: a Ku and Ka band waveform that must acquire below 0 dB Es/N0, track Doppler excursions of hundreds of kilohertz, ride through beam and satellite handovers in tens of milliseconds, and do so within a single digit watt baseband envelope. The target is a single-chip modem module in which the programmable PHY, the protocol stack and the host processor functions share one SoC, built from vector compute engines, a RISC-V control subsystem, hardware accelerators and an on-chip NPU.

Where the architect decides what has to be true, you are the one who finds out whether it is. You will bring the platform up, build the bench and the automation around it, run every measurement campaign, verify what is delivered against golden vectors rather than against the accompanying slides, and chase the discrepancies to their root cause. It is a deeply technical execution role: firmware, instruments, capture files and cycle counts, every day.

This is a founding role in a capability under construction. The tooling, the test assets and the working practices do not exist yet; you will build them, and they will become the way Eutelsat verifies its own terminals.

What you'll do

• Bring the platform up: toolchains and build environments, boot and firmware images, RISC-V subsystem initialisation, converter, clocking and peripheral configuration, and first signal through the transmit and receive chains;
• Work inside the PHY software: build, modify, port and optimise signal processing micro-kernels, their scheduling across signal units, and the glue code and hardware abstraction layers around the FEC and signal processing engines;
• Build and own the laboratory bench: RF chain, vector signal generators and analysers, channel emulator, GNSS simulator, timing test set, and the switching and calibration around them;
• Automate everything that will be run more than twice: scripted instrument control, unattended campaigns, nightly regression on target, a results store and the reporting that goes with it;
• Execute the acceptance and characterisation campaigns defined with the architect: BER and BLER against Es/N0, acquisition time distributions, Doppler ramp and phase noise sensitivity, handover interruption time, EVM, ACLR and spectral mask, throughput and latency, and timing performance against max|TE|, MTIE, TDEV and holdover masks;
• Verify delivered software bit-exactly against the reference model and its golden vectors, quantify and explain every departure, and keep the regression suite aligned as the platform evolves;
• Instrument and profile the target: IQ capture at several points of the chain, logging and tracing, exception handling, performance counters, cycles per sample and per slot, DMA and memory bandwidth occupancy, and interrupt latency;
• Debug across the whole stack, from a firmware exception or a DMA stall to an RF symptom on the analyser: JTAG, trace, logic analyser, capture replay, and bisection through firmware and configuration;
• Reproduce independently the results claimed by our partners, and reproduce the issues they report, so that every technical discussion rests on evidence produced on our own bench;
• Support integration of the modem with the RF front end, the antenna subsystem, the protocol stack and the host processor, and contribute to end to end terminal testing including over the air;
• Investigate issues arising in qualification and early field deployment, and drive them to root cause and to a documented fix;
• Document the setups, the procedures and the results to a standard that lets another Eutelsat engineer reproduce them without you, and feed that material into the team's growing knowledge base.

Qualifications

• Engineering degree or MSc in electronics, telecommunications, signal processing or computer science;
• 6 to 12 years in embedded signal processing, wireless physical layer implementation, modem integration or software defined radio;