About the company
ICEYE is the world leader in sovereign intelligence from space, operating the world's largest SAR satellite constellation. Founded and headquartered in Finland, with over 1000 employees globally.
Responsibilities
- Own the architecture of the satellite-to-ground link across X-band and Ka-band payload downlink and S-band command and control
- Measure constellation delivery against theoretical capacity and lead gap-closing work
- Design data movement from ground station to customer, including latency tiers and delivery accounting
- Build alongside software engineers, contributing code and reviews
- Lead technical initiatives across team boundaries and align teams on link and data path decisions
- Grow satellite communications expertise through mentoring, design reviews and shared standards
Requirements
- Communications engineering on at least one flown mission, including diagnosing an anomaly on a live satellite
- High-rate payload downlink experience in X-band or Ka-band beyond S-band command and control
- Ability to build and defend a link budget: EIRP, G/T, Eb/N0, margin, rain fade, elevation constraints
- Practical CCSDS knowledge: transfer frames, virtual channels, synchronisation, channel coding, file delivery
- Experience owning data movement from ground station to consumption with latency and completeness guarantees
- Hands-on coding in Python, Go, C++ or similar
Conditions
- Permanent employment, hybrid model with 3 days a week at the office in Espoo, Finland
- Employment subject to applicable security screening (incl. SUPO)