Senior Spectrum Engineer
United States of America
Full Time
1 week ago
$180,000 - $245,000 USD
No H1B
Key skills
Satellite spectrum coordinationInterference analysisGSO orbital slot filingsVisualyseMATLABSTKIFICITU softwareRegulatory experience in satellite spectrumCommunicationSales
About this role
Astranis builds advanced satellites for high orbits, expanding humanity’s reach into the solar system. As the Senior Spectrum Engineer, you will be the primary technical owner of Astranis's GSO network coordination efforts, managing technical coordination and developing the orbital portfolio.
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
- U.S. Citizenship, Lawful Permanent Residency, or Refugee/Asylee Status Required