Senior Lunar SATCOM Engineer: RF, TT&C & Ops

Motion Recruitment Partners LLC; Denver (CO); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance

Vacation Time

Job summary

Motion Recruitment Partners LLC is seeking a Senior Lunar Ground Systems Engineer for its Denver, CO area. The role centers on RF communications, SATCOM, TT&C, and mission operations, supporting diverse customers including government and commercial clients.

The ideal candidate will lead RF test events, troubleshoot complex communications issues, and configure customer systems in a mission-critical environment, with a flexible hybrid schedule and ~20% travel.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of SATCOM experience supporting, developing, testing, or deploying space-to-ground RF communication systems.
• Strong knowledge of TT&C communications and mission data transport architectures.
• Experience designing or supporting RF communication systems including modulation, demodulation, framing, synchronization, and encoding.
• Hands-on experience testing and integrating RF equipment including digitizers, up/down converters, software modems, radios, signal generators, and spectrum analyzers.
• Experience providing operational support and troubleshooting complex real-time customer issues.
• Strong customer-facing communication and technical presentation skills.
• Ability to travel domestically and internationally as needed.
• Eligible to obtain and maintain a Secret Clearance.

Responsibilities

• Hands-on engineering and troubleshooting of RF SATCOM systems.
• Collaborate with global engineering teams on mission operations support.
• Lead RF compatibility test events and system integration tasks.
• Interface with customers to define requirements and provide technical briefings.

Skills

SATCOM experience

TT&C knowledge

RF system design

Troubleshooting complex comms

Customer-facing communication

Travel ability

Secret clearance eligibility

Tools

Linux administration

Shell scripting

AWS/Azure cloud

REST API integrations

Job description

Motion Recruitment Partners LLC is seeking a Senior Lunar Ground Systems Engineer for its Denver, CO area. The role centers on RF communications, SATCOM, TT&C, and mission operations, supporting diverse customers including government and commercial clients.

The ideal candidate will lead RF test events, troubleshoot complex communications issues, and configure customer systems in a mission-critical environment, with a flexible hybrid schedule and ~20% travel.