System Engineer

Job summary

System Engineer At ICEYE, we design, build and operate the largest fleet of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellites in the world. Using advanced technology, our constellation collects topographical data about any location on Earth, day or night, through any weather conditions.

Benefits

Qualifications

• verification, and reliability.
• You will work daily with RF, digital, and mechanical design engineers, the software team, and program leadership to ensure the payloads are designed, built, and verified to meet mission objectives.
• This is not a paper-pushing SE role — you will drive architectural trade studies, define avionics interfaces, shape fault management strategies, and be deeply technical across the full payload stack.
• into subsystem and interface specifications; maintain full traceability through verification closure
• Lead FMEA and reliability analyses at system and subsystem level; identify single-point failures and drive redundancy or mitigation decisions
• Design the fault management architecture including FDIR strategies, safe modes, and anomaly response aligned to mission ConOps
• Establish and track Technical Performance Measures (mass, power, thermal, link, data rate budgets); flag margin erosion and drive resolution
• Own the V&V strategy and map every requirement to its verification method (test, analysis, inspection, demonstration) across design gates (PDR CDR TRR FRR)
• Develop and refine mission ConOps including orbit geometry, imaging modes, duty cycles, and ground segment interfaces
• Define and control inter-subsystem and payload-to-bus ICDs.
• Collaborate with software engineers on embedded flight software architecture, command/telemetry definitions, and mode transitions
• Partner with the product team to translate product roadmap objectives into system-level technical

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain the payload system architecture including avionics.
• Decompose mission and system-level
• of the job, the employee must be able to read and respond to inter-office communications as well as effectively participate in meetings.
• The employee is often required to sit and use their hands or fingers, to lift up to 50 lbs., pull, push, carry, handle, or feel.
• The employee is required to carry, handle items, reach with arms and hands, to stoop, kneel, or crouch; talk, or hear.
• Mental demands may require prolonged concentration, reading comprehension, understanding and interpretation of concepts, ideas, and philosophies.
• The physical demands of the position described herein are essential functions of the job and employees must be able to successfully perform these tasks for extended periods.
• Reasonable accommodations may be made for those individuals with real or perceived disabilities to perform the essential functions of the job described unless such accommodations would cause ICE*** an undue burden.
• EEO Statement
• ICE*** is an equal opportunity employer.

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