Senior Satellite Systems Modeling Engineer

Amazon; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 151,000 - 205,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

KGS LLC in El Segundo, CA, seeks a Modeling and Simulation Systems Engineer to assess the Leo government use cases, analyze coverage, capacity, latency, and availability, and produce analyses for contract work.

You will extend MATLAB/C++/Python tools, develop missions and CONOPS, perform RF and orbital analyses, and present results to government customers. This role requires TS/SCI clearance and 8+ years in satellite systems.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, or an equivalent field
• 8+ years of experience in satellite or network system design, modeling, and analysis
• 8+ years of experience developing code in MATLAB, C, C++, or Python
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including preparing and presenting technical content for customers and program reviews

Responsibilities

• Own system-level modeling, simulation, and analysis for government mission scenarios and constellation designs, across coverage, capacity, latency, and availability, from concept trades through customer deliverables
• Perform mission engineering: translate customer mission objectives into scenarios and measures of effectiveness, develop design reference missions and CONOPS, and model whether the end-to-end system delivers the required operational outcome
• Apply orbital mechanics, including orbit and constellation geometry, reference frames, revisit and access behavior, and station-keeping and conjunction considerations, as the foundation of coverage, access analyses
• Design and evaluate resource scheduling and allocation approaches for contact scheduling, satellite beam assignment, and prioritization under power, thermal, and spectrum constraints
• Evaluate complex multi-disciplinary trades involving RF bandwidth and network resource allocation to customers, optimizing customer experience against cost, power, and spectrum
• Build and/or utilize RF and optical link budgets and combine them with orbital constellation dynamics to model time-varying system capacity, latency, and availability
• Model inter-satellite geometry and access, including link availability windows, contact scheduling, and handover behavior
• Extend existing simulation code and tools, and create new simulation models representative of the target system (primarily MATLAB, also C++/Python)
• Prepare and present technical content for government customers and program reviews, including analysis packages, visualizations, briefings, and proposal material
• Account for self-interference and interference with other space and terrestrial communication systems in coverage and capacity analyses

Job description

KGS LLC in El Segundo, CA, seeks a Modeling and Simulation Systems Engineer to assess the Leo government use cases, analyze coverage, capacity, latency, and availability, and produce analyses for contract work.

You will extend MATLAB/C++/Python tools, develop missions and CONOPS, perform RF and orbital analyses, and present results to government customers. This role requires TS/SCI clearance and 8+ years in satellite systems.