Staff Systems Engineer, SAR Missions

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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

• Provide end-to-end oversight of SAR engineering across the full lifecycle of a SAR space mission • Own the mission concept of operations and high-level mission specifications, including spacecraft budgets that drive the SAR payload • Lead technical solutions for current and future SAR missions, including beam mode design, mission concept design, and SAR image quality modelling • Lead mission-level risk management, integration, verification and validation • Run design trade-offs across spacecraft systems, coverage and access, SAR payload, SAR processor and end-user applications • Own the SAR side of commissioning, calibration and early operations • Advise senior management and new business • Mentor the team

🎯 Requirements

• Graduate degree in Electrical Engineering, Engineering Physics, Math or Physics (or equivalent experience) • 15+ years with radar, SAR or similar active imaging systems (hardware, processors and/or data products) • 10+ years in a space systems engineering or similar complex systems environment • SAR remote sensing experience: system design, operation, applications/exploitation and/or calibration • Strong communicator across technical, sales, executive and customer audiences • US citizen or permanent resident (export-control and Controlled Goods requirements) • Nice to have: MATLAB, Python; satellite SAR payload design and operations; space mission design (coverage and access, orbital dynamics); spacecraft design (thermal, power, pointing); geospatial data

🏖️ Benefits

• Fully remote from the US is fine for the first couple of years • Relocation to the Vancouver, BC area later is optional, not required