# Space Communications Payload Systems Engineer (Experienced, Lead, or Senior)

**Company**: The Boeing Company
**Location**: El Segundo, California
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: mid
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $119,850 - $162,150 (Experienced), $146,200 - $197,800 (Lead), $176,800 - $239,200 (Senior)
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Aerospace

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## Description

The Space Communications Payload Systems Engineer is part of a high-performing team that designs, develops, and delivers state-of-the-art communication systems for space-based applications. The team drives all facets of engineering from technology investment, concept development, proposal writing, requirement development, RF and digital payload design, test, verification, and demonstration of products in their relevant environments.

Responsibilities:

- Design and develop next-generation RF, digital, and/or optical satellite communications systems and payload architectures

- Support trade studies and generate proposals

- Define and verify space communication unit, subsystem, and system requirements and interfaces

- Perform system-level CONOPS development, functional analysis, RF and Optical performance analysis, and decomposition

- Support system-level integration and validation

- Perform analyses and simulations for space communication systems, including link analysis, signal distortion, system capacity, reliability, and performance

- Develop analysis tools using MATLAB and object-oriented software platforms

- Develop and verify system algorithms that meet functional and performance requirements

- Oversee the design and build of satellite RF and digital payload units from internal teams and external suppliers that meet defined requirements and interfaces

- Perform design reviews and requirements sell-off

- Perform system test preparation, execution, troubleshooting, and verification

Qualifications:

- Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering, Engineering Technology, Computer Science, Data Science, Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, or non-US equivalent qualifications directly related to the work statement

- 5 years of related work experience or an equivalent combination of education and experience

- Experience or an academic background with communications subsystems or units

- Experience or an academic background with payload design, analysis, development, and/or verification

Preferred Qualifications:

- Experience working on satellite or space-based payloads

- Experience with satellite or terrestrial RF and digital communications systems and antenna theory

- Experience with requirements definition and verification

- Experience with RF analyses such as G/T, EIRP, gain-loss

- Experience with Matlab/Simulink and C++

Benefits:

- Competitive base pay and variable compensation opportunities

- Health insurance, flexible spending accounts, health savings accounts, retirement savings plans, life and disability insurance programs, and a number of programs that provide for both paid and unpaid time away from work

## Skills

### Required
- RF engineering
- digital communications
- payload design
- MATLAB
- C++
- satellite communications

### Nice to have
- space-based payloads
- antenna theory
- requirements definition
- RF analyses
- Matlab/Simulink

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