SAR Payload Systems Engineer

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🕒 September 28

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

⚙️ Systems Engineer

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HIKINEX

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201 - 500 employees

📣 Marketing

📦 Logistics

💼 Consulting

Marketing • Logistics • Consulting

HIKINEX is a multi-channel integrated service provider that delivers outsourced sales, recruitment, virtual assistant, and marketing support to help companies scale quickly and reduce operating costs. The company offers sales-as-a-service (appointment setting, outbound sales, sales training), end-to-end recruiting and talent acquisition (sourcing, screening, ATS management, executive recruiting), virtual administrative support, and marketing/brand ambassador services. HIKINEX operates remotely out of San Francisco and emphasizes flexible, scalable staffing and operations solutions for B2B clients.

📋 Description

• Own the definition, design, integration, verification and sustainment of SAR payload subsystems across several satellite programs • Act as the technical interface with customers, primes and internal teams • Gather and trace payload requirements from mission level down to subsystem level • Design SAR payload architecture, including antenna arrays, RF front-end Tx/Rx, digital beamforming, processing chain, digital electronics, power, thermal and mass • Lead conceptual, preliminary and detailed design with trade studies and performance budgets • Produce ICDs; specify hardware and review schematics and layouts • Perform performance simulations for tolerance budgeting and image quality • Support SAR and moving-target-indication algorithm development • Develop payload DC power budgets, FMECA, fault trees, FDIR and reliability analyses • Build the payload verification master plan covering unit, subsystem, payload, environmental and EMC tests • Lead test automation and reporting • Support mission operations through payload health monitoring, on-orbit anomaly root-cause analysis, telemetry analysis and operator training

🎯 Requirements

• Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science or Physics • 5+ years supporting remote sensing system development, integration and test on LEO/MEO missions • Strong technical writing skills for requirements, ICDs, test procedures, and risk reports • Strong presentation skills • Hands-on systems integration and test experience • Experience with Confluence and JIRA • Ability to work with little supervision • Strong written and spoken English • US citizenship or permanent residency • French is an asset

🏖️ Benefits

• Fully remote work from the US