Senior Spectrum Engineer
United States of America
Full Time
2 weeks ago
$180,000 - $245,000 USD
No H1B
Key skills
Satellite spectrum coordinationInterference analysisVisualyseMATLABSTKRegulatory experience in satellite spectrumIFICITU softwareTechnical filings for FCCGSO orbital slot filingsGSO-NGSO coordinationCommunicationSales
About this role
Astranis Space Technologies builds advanced satellites for high orbits, expanding humanity’s reach into the solar system. As a Senior Spectrum Engineer, you will be the primary technical owner of Astranis's GSO network coordination efforts, managing a large portfolio of GSO orbital slots and ensuring timely communications with external partners.
Responsibilities:
- Manage Astranis's technical coordination efforts across its portfolio of GSO orbital slots
- Develop Astranis’s orbital portfolio by identifying new opportunities for spectrum rights at GSO orbital slots
- Prepare ITU filings and manage Astranis’s ITU filing portfolio
- Ensure timely, professional, and technically sound communications with external coordination partners
- Ensure Astranis's global network of ground stations remains in good regulatory standing
- Run detailed interference analyses for GSO-GSO and GSO-NGSO using Visualyse or similar tools
- Build a robust process for proactively, and quickly, reaching out to coordination partners and responding to coordination requests
- Coordinate across Astranis internal teams to ensure buy-in across executive, sales, and networking teams
- Prepare technical filings (e.g., FCC Schedules S) for market access or licenses to operate as needed
- Develop technical analyses for FCC proceedings
- Support Astranis ITU engagement through developing positions, analyses and input documents to ITU fora and regional preparatory meetings
- Represent Astranis at ITU and regional preparatory meetings as needed
Requirements:
- Confident running and interpreting interference studies for coordination purposes (GSO-GSO and ideally GSO-NGSO as well)
- Experience using Visualyse, MATLAB, STK or an equivalent tool
- Excellent communication skills, verbal and written
- Solid industry knowledge of what other operators are doing and the current lay of the land with the industry & coordination
- Engineering Bachelor's (preferred electrical/communications)
- 5+ years regulatory experience in satellite spectrum matters
- Knows their way around an IFIC
- Experience using ITU software to generate orbital slot filings
- Able to frequently Travel to San Francisco, CA Headquarters, Washington DC Office, as needed. Or work onsite at either location
- U.S. Citizenship, Lawful Permanent Residency, Or Refugee/Asylee Status Required