Senior Space Data Link Engineer - Hybrid, High Impact

CleanTech Talent; Glasgow; Hybrid; GBP 81,000 - 99,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Hybrid working

Next-generation communications system

High ownership and technical influence

Strong collaboration culture

Job summary

CleanTech Talent is seeking a Senior Data Link Communication Research Engineer to shape the L2 stack for a new spaceborne system. You’ll contribute to embedded firmware, protocol development and hardware bring-up on a modern SoC/FPGA platform.

You will own architecture and performance, work with RF, FPGA, software and hardware teams, and help bring up new hardware while validating proprietary comms techniques.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of embedded systems experience in high-reliability or mission-critical domains.
• Strong C/C++ skills for real-time/embedded systems.
• Background in L1/L2 communications, DSP, or protocol stack development.
• Experience with modern communications standards (CCSDS, DVB-S2(X), GSE, TM/TC, AOS).
• Familiarity with MATLAB, Python/Bash and lab equipment such as JTAG, spectrum analysers and VNAs.

Responsibilities

• Develop L2 firmware, protocols and low-level embedded drivers.
• Architect embedded firmware in C/C++ across RTOS, Linux and bare-metal environments.
• Collaborate with RF, FPGA, software and hardware engineering teams.
• Validate, test and improve proprietary communication techniques.
• Support bring-up, integration and system-level verification of new hardware platforms.

Skills

Embedded systems

C/C++

L1/L2 communications

DSP

MATLAB/Python

Rust/Python development

Tools

JTAG

Spectrum analysers

VNAs

Job description

CleanTech Talent is seeking a Senior Data Link Communication Research Engineer to shape the L2 stack for a new spaceborne system. You’ll contribute to embedded firmware, protocol development and hardware bring-up on a modern SoC/FPGA platform.

You will own architecture and performance, work with RF, FPGA, software and hardware teams, and help bring up new hardware while validating proprietary comms techniques.