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Telecom Digital Payload Analysis & Systems Engineering Placement (13 months)

Portsmouth💼 Full-time💰 $24,500–$24,500🗓 2026-09-07 → 2026-09-26

Core

Analyze and optimize telecom satellite payload architectures and performances using on-board analogue and digital signal processing, active/passive antennas, and RF technologies.

Role type

Junior payload systems engineer (placement)

Builds

Flexible and secure telecom satellite systems (e.g., OneSAT)

Domain

Aerospace / Satellite Communications

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis | research | client delivery | infrastructure | physical/clinical work

Required skills

Telecommunications Systems, Electrical or Electronic Engineering, Mathematics, or Physics; Basic computer programming (Matlab, Python); Modelling tools (Simulink, SystemVue, ADS); RF instruments and test techniques; Systems Engineering thinking

Preferred skills

Experience with modelling tools (Simulink, SystemVue, ADS); Understanding of RF performances; Systems Engineering thinking

Technologies

Matlab, Python, Simulink, SystemVue, ADS

Responsibilities

Prepare performance analyses and evaluate payload settings; Support payload design trade-offs and RF performance analysis; Assist in payload architecture development and operational tool definition; Support laboratory test bench activities and payload integration validation; Support payload delivery via environmental test campaigns

Seniority

Student / Undergraduate Placement

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