The company provides full relocation support, including immigration assistance, and offers a relocation bonus upon arrival in Montreal. Selected candidates may work remotely during the initial months while their immigration process is being completed; however, the long-term expectation is for the individual to transition to onsite work in Montreal once relocation has been finalized.

Tasks summary: Architecture Concept & Requirements

• Establish functional, performance, environmental and security requirements with mission stakeholders & CONOPs.
• Translate requirements into clear payload performance parameters and maintain bidirectional traceability throughout the project lifecycle.
• Establish with cybersecurity team payload‑specific requirements & embed resilience and security by design. Payload Architecture Definition
• Define the overall digital regenerative payload architecture (optical/RF ISLs, antenna arrays, digitizers/ onboard processing, Feeder links, master reference oscillator & clock synchronizations).
• Define Interface Control Documents (ICDs) with spacecraft bus, ground segment and payload specific subsystems.
• Define high‑speed data‑bus I/F (Serdes, SpaceWire, SpaceFibre, Ethernet, CAN, fiber). Trade‑Study & Technology Road‑Mapping
• Lead trade‑offs for technologies, ASIC/FPGAs/SoCs, high‑speed data‑bus, and on‑board processing algorithms, PVT.
• Identify emerging technologies and incorporate them into the company’s long‑term roadmap. System Modeling & Performance Simulation
• Build end‑to‑end models of the signal chain (optical/RF, analog/digital) using MATLAB/Simulink, SystemView or Python‑based toolkits.
• Run Monte‑Carlo and tolerance analyses to verify gain, SNR, dynamic range, spectral efficiency, G/T, EIRP and other key metrics.
• Optimize payload design and performance with operation with traffic models/CONOPs. Simulation & Analysis
• Oversee performance simulations & analysis (Gain, Spurious, Linearity, SNR, dynamic range, spectral efficiency, pointing, G/T, EIRP…etc.) and tolerance budgeting.
• Optimize Payload DC power budget with traffic & utilization models. Hardware & Firmware
• Own system‑level specifications to hardware designers, review schematics, layouts, thermal & mechanical interfaces.
• Oversee MODCODs selection and on‑board processing pipelines; define BIST, timing, latency and deterministic behavior. Cross‑Functional Coordination, Stakeholder & Program Interaction
• Communicate technical status, risk assessments and trade‑study results to senior management and/or customers or partners.
• Act as the primary technical liaison with Electrical, Power, Structures, Thermal, Software, Ground Segment and Mission Operations teams to resolve integration issues early.
• Support payload design authority in System design reviews and Mission Operations hand‑over.
• Support B&P (Phase 0 & pre-phase A). Integration & Verification (IVV)
• Author Payload Verification Master Plan covering unit‑test, subsystem‑test, payload‑level test, environmental and electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) test campaigns.
• Define test‑automation framework set‑up, test‑case definition, results analysis and test‑report certification. Technical Leadership & Mentorship
• Mentor, guide junior engineers and interns.
• Act as technical liaison with customers, partners and external vendors
• Act as Continuous Improvement stakeholder
• Contribute to the company’s knowledge‑base, process enhancements, and standards development. Configuration, Documentation & Standards Management
• Ensure all artefacts, analysis, software, deliverables and documentation are version controlled in PLM environment.
• Chair design reviews (SRR, PDR, CDR, MRR/TRR…etc.).
• Support Technology Road‑Mapping & Innovation. On Orbit & Operations Support
• Technical support to Mission Operations for routine payload health monitoring, contingency handling and performance trending.
• Lead root‑cause investigations for on‑orbit anomalies; update design baselines and lessons‑learned.
• Analyze on‑orbit telemetry, update filter parameters, and generate performance reports.
• Define SOOH and associated operator training.

Required Qualifications:  B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering, Aerospace or Physics (M.Sc. preferred) with 12 + years of digital regenerative payload system design experience on LEO/MEO missions.  Comprehensive knowledge of digital regenerative communications, SDR, DSP, DVB RCS/SX protocols, Modulation schemes, Class of Service, Networking, MPLS, 2G, 5G, NTN.  Strong technical writing ability (requirements, ICDs, test procedures, risk reports) and presentation skills; comfortable interfacing with customers, suppliers and senior leadership.  Strong understanding of aerospace system engineering fundamentals.  Hands-on individual who can support systems integration processes and capability to test systems and resolve problems.  Experience with Confluence and JIRA.  Demonstrated capability to efficiently work with little supervision.  Ability to distill complex problems to fundamentals to solve with analysis, similarity, or creativity.  Demonstrate excellent written and oral communication skills in English; knowledge of French will be considered an asset (Contact with clients outside Quebec and work on deliverables in English).