Space Payload Systems Lead — Architecture & Strategy

Platform Recruitment; Oxford; On-site; GBP 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Platform Recruitment is seeking a Payload Systems Project Lead to head the design, integration and test of advanced RF payload and antenna systems for space-based communications platforms in Oxford.

You'll guide system-level trade studies, drive cross-functional engineering teams, and develop robust technical recommendations across payload architecture, ground infrastructure and communications technologies, ensuring delivery on time and within budget.

Qualifications

• Degree in Engineering, Mathematics or Physics.
• Significant experience in communications systems engineering and/or engineering leadership.
• Experience developing technologies for space applications.
• Knowledge of space industry standards such as ECSS.
• Previous experience leading engineering teams.
• Experience with communications satellite systems, including RF payloads, antenna systems and digital payload architectures.
• Ability to develop end-to-end system requirements and perform technical trade studies such as link budgets and capacity analysis.

Responsibilities

• Lead engineering project teams, developing and maintaining technical plans covering scope, schedule, cost, resources and risk.
• Monitor technical performance against programme objectives, identifying risks and implementing mitigation strategies.
• Drive cross-functional engineering activities to deliver projects on time, within budget and to the required technical and quality standards.
• Manage technical budgets, forecasts and schedules while ensuring alignment with programme objectives.
• Define, validate and manage technical requirements throughout the project lifecycle.
• Lead the systems engineering team in developing system requirements, specifications and interface definitions.

Skills

Engineering leadership

Systems engineering

Space applications

RF payloads

Antenna systems

Link budgets

Education

Degree in Engineering, Mathematics or Physics

Tools

ECSS

Job description

Platform Recruitment is seeking a Payload Systems Project Lead to head the design, integration and test of advanced RF payload and antenna systems for space-based communications platforms in Oxford.

You'll guide system-level trade studies, drive cross-functional engineering teams, and develop robust technical recommendations across payload architecture, ground infrastructure and communications technologies, ensuring delivery on time and within budget.