You will be an instrumental member of a team building out a full avionics stack product. The operation is new, based in Luxembourg as a spin-off of Deep Space Industries (California) and Bradford Space (Netherlands). Our team in Luxembourg will be kept small (~20 people) and will focus on the single objective of building a reliable, performing, and mass-optimised flight avionics system for upcoming deepspace smallsats and landers. We operate following a hybrid model that aims to fuse the rapid development and commercial processes of a NewSpace company, while attaining a higher degree of quality assurance in the end product.

You would execute the high-level design and coordinate the development of a radio subsystem for this avionics system, in conjunction with the radio expert engineer.

Essential Characteristics

• Track record of developing and delivering radio products
• Systems-level engineering skills, capable of making high-level engineering and economic tradeoffs
• Strong understanding of radio engineering principles, parts, process and standards.
• Proficient English language skills

Strongly Valued Characteristics

• Knowledge about radios, communications or ranging systems in a spacecraft context
• Understanding of space hardware quality standards and the qualification process
• Competences with transceivers, frequency converters and amplifiers
• Prior SDR, FPGA and/or DSP development experience
• Ability to technically manage a small team (2-4 people)
• Prior experience working with ground stations or ground segment equipment
• Familiarity with CCSDS and/or ECSS-E, and their specified protocols
• Awareness of presently commercially available space radio systems
• Build-for-test design, and hardware/software test campaign development & execution
• Build-for-manufacture design experience

Key responsibilities:

• Oversee the design, prototyping, testing, qualification and initial manufacture of a radio system
• Coordinate the 4+ person transponder development team
• Conduct the architectural development and facilitate design trade-offs
• Management and verification of design and customer requirements
• Prepare or review design documentation
• Identify and specify equipment and other resource needs
• Manage product programmatic aspects (schedule, risk, costs) in conjunction with avionics project lead
• Liaise with other avionics products teams to integrate with overall system
• Liaise with ground segment partner(s) for interface and system testing
• (Optional) commercialisation and sales activities for the product

Tagged as: FPGA, SDR, ccsds, ecss-e, dsp development