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Senior Systems MTS, Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Missions for Fastwater Staffing and Recruiting

Vancouver, Canada (Remote)ContractPosted Sep 30, 2026

Job description

What you will do

  • Contribute end-to-end to SAR engineering across the full lifecycle of a SAR space mission
  • Contribute to the mission concept of operations and high-level mission specs, including spacecraft budgets for the SAR payload
  • Lead technical solutions for mission enhancements: beam mode design, mission concept design, image quality modelling
  • Take part in mission-level risk management, integration, verification and validation
  • Own design trade-offs across spacecraft systems, coverage and access, SAR payload, SAR processor and end-user applications
  • Key member of the team through commissioning, calibration and early operations; mentor others What you need
  • Graduate degree in Electrical Engineering, Engineering Physics, Math or Physics (or equivalent)
  • 10+ years with radar, SAR or similar active imaging systems (hardware, processors and/or data products)
  • 5+ 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
  • US citizen or permanent resident Nice to have : MATLAB, Python; satellite SAR payload design and operations; space mission design; spacecraft design; geospatial data.

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