Design and specify satellite navigation payload systems, document requirements and interfaces, coordinate external contractors, manage development progress, and assess system risks and quality.
About this role
This role is responsible for designing, analyzing, and evaluating communication antennas installed on the company's small satellites. The work includes defining antenna specifications, designing antenna structures, conducting electromagnetic-field analysis, optimizing antenna performance and shape for satellite installation, evaluating and measuring antenna prototypes in an anechoic chamber, and designing communication links through link budgets and level diagrams.
The role may expand to overall communication-system design and satellite system design, including link calculations and level-diagram design. Space and satellite technology can be learned after joining, and engineers without prior industry experience are welcome.
The work concerns compact satellite communications and involves integrating multiple technical elements into a complete system. It covers the process from design through completion and may include collaboration with organizations and partners in Europe, the United States, Asia, Africa, and South America, as well as joint research and development projects with space agencies including ESA.
Named tools include Windows, HFSS or CST for electromagnetic analysis, SolidWorks or similar 3D CAD software, MATLAB and Python for link calculations and data analysis, GitHub Projects V2 and GitHub Issues for task management, and Redmine for project management. A company-designated computer is provided according to the employee's preference.
The initial work location is the Ariake office in Koto, Tokyo. The role is basically office-based, with partial remote work available. The stated selection process is document screening, a first interview, a second interview with an aptitude test, and a final interview.
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