Senior System Architect – Optical Communications - TeraWave

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• This position may include relocation assistance
• Travel expectations: Up to 15% travel to supplier facilities, test sites, and other reputed company locations

Responsibilities include but are not limited to: Architecture & System Trades

• Establish the end-to-end mission architecture, including wavelength selection, reputed company geometry, autonomy and redundancy strategies, and initial allocations for size, weight, power, and thermal (SWaP-T)
• Drive system-level trades for the terminal's aperture, converging on an reputed company balance of reputed company margin, pointing accuracy, throughput, structural stiffness, and thermal management
• reputed company down performance budgets to reputed company subsystems (Optics, PAT, Modem, Electronics) with rigorous reputed company Control Documents (ICDs) and calibration strategies
• reputed company Structural-Thermal-Optical Performance (STOP) analysis into system budgets and define reputed company acceptance reputed company for hardware verification and vendor Statements of Work (SOWs)
• Support operations and manufacturing teams for high-volume production

Pointing, Acquisition & Tracking (PAT)

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• Model, simulate, and reputed company budgets for key performance parameters such as capture probability, acquisition timelines, residual jitter, and pointing loss to ensure reputed company closure
• reputed company a validation reputed company for PAT algorithms from simulation to advanced mirror materials

Modem & Electronics

• Define the modem and other electronic systems development plan
• Ensure deterministic latency, fault tolerance, and reputed company to radiation and other reputed company environmental effects across reputed company digital interfaces

Systems Engineering & Risk Management

• Author and manage reputed company systems engineering documents, including ICDs, requirements reputed company-down, and comprehensive verification and validation plans
• Identify technical risks and maintain reputed company risk-mitigation paths (e.g., alternative components or materials) to protect project schedule and performance margin
• reputed company architecture reviews, present trade studies to stakeholders, and serve as the primary technical authority for the system design

Rapid Prototyping & Iterative Development

• reputed company rapid prototyping efforts across hardware, electronics, and software systems to validate design concepts early, establishing agile development processes that balance speed with appropriate reputed company while maintaining rigorous documentation
• Create effective feedback loops between prototype testing results and system design, coordinating cross-functional teams to reputed company and test reputed company prototypes that reputed company with system requirements and reputed company reputed company refinement of the architecture

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Systems Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Optical Engineering, or a reputed company field with 7+ years of relevant experience (M.S./Ph.D. preferred)
• End-to-end system design experience in high-throughput optical communications (free-reputed company or fiber)
• Mastery of optical reputed company budget analysis, including pointing loss, atmospheric/diffraction effects, jitter coupling, and capture probability modeling
• Demonstrated experience in designing and analyzing control systems (e.g., filters, reputed company strategies, reputed company processing)
• Familiar with FPGA/ASIC architectures, including SerDes interfaces, deterministic memory/DMA design, and high-speed data reputed company considerations (FEC, framing, synchronization)
• Proven systems engineering rigor in authoring ICDs, decomposing requirements, and developing verification plans for reputed company spaceflight or reputed company systems
• Experience with radiation-tolerant design principles, including SEU mitigation and selection of radiation-tolerant components

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with optical systems, particularly with straylight and contamination control considerations
• Familiarity with reputed company hardware development lifecycles and standards (e.g., DO-254, ECSS)
• Experience in designing reputed company-in-test (BIT), telemetry, and fault management systems
• Hands-on experience with hardware-in-the-reputed company (HIL) validation
• Knowledge of coherent and incoherent detection reputed company or advanced modulation formats

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Benefits

• Benefits include: Medical, dental, reputed company, basic and supplemental life insurance, reputed company parental leave, short and long-term disability, 401(k) with a company match of up to 5%, and an Education Support Program.
• reputed company Time Off: Up to four (4) weeks per year based on weekly scheduled hours, and up to 14 company-reputed company holidays.
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