Lynk (lynk.world)
Ground Station Systems Engineer - Mission Operations
Chantilly, VA
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 61 days ago
LinuxIncident ResponseSystems EngineeringAerospace EngineeringElectrical EngineeringRF EngineeringTCP/IPDNSFirewallNetwork Monitoring
About the role
- Lynk is looking for a Ground Station Systems Engineer to join the Mission Operations team.
- This is a hands-on ground segment engineering role focused on making ground stations reliable, supportable, and scalable as Lynk's constellation grows.
- Assess tradeoffs between owned ground stations, hosted ground stations, teleport partnerships, and Ground Station-as-a-Service providers.
Responsibilities
- Become a reliable technical point of contact for ground station design, configuration, acceptance testing, performance analysis, and operational readiness.
- This role will define the ground station system needs, hardware/software interfaces, performance expectations, and acceptance criteria that software and operations teams use to build, monitor, and support the ground station network.
- Ground Station Systems Architecture and Design
- Support the technical architecture of Lynk ground station systems, including antennas, RF chains, modems, servers, networking equipment, timing, power, environmental considerations, and monitoring interfaces.
- Evaluate hardware and design alternatives to improve cost, resiliency, throughput, and operational reliability.
- Support site selection and technical site analysis, including antenna placement, interference concerns, backhaul availability, maintainability, physical access, and operational risk.
- Work with external site partners and Ground Site Operations to support installation planning, equipment configuration, site inspections, and operational readiness.
- Support integration of antennas, RF equipment, modems, servers, network equipment, monitoring systems, and ground station services into an operational capability.
- Support site acceptance testing and operational handover.
- Maintain technical documentation, including architecture diagrams, interface definitions, configuration baselines, operational constraints, test records, troubleshooting guides, and handover documentation.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Computer Engineering, Systems Engineering, Telecommunications, RF Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Experience with satellite ground systems, SATCOM systems, teleport operations, RF systems, antenna systems, networked infrastructure, or similar operational technical systems.
- Working knowledge of ground station components such as antennas, RF chains, modems, servers, networking equipment, timing systems, monitoring systems, and site infrastructure.
- Ability to troubleshoot complex issues that span RF systems, antennas, modems, networks, servers, software interfaces, vendors, and operational workflows.
- Familiarity with networking concepts such as TCP/IP, routing, VPNs, firewalls, DNS, network monitoring, latency, backhaul, and secure remote access.
- Strong technical documentation habits, including architecture diagrams, configuration records, operational procedures, test results, and technical decision rationale.
- Interest in satellite operations, ground segment systems, mission operations, telecommunications, or space systems.
Nice to have
- Experience designing, deploying, operating, or maintaining satellite ground stations, teleports, RF ground systems, or GSaaS capabilities.
- Experience with antenna siting, link performance analysis, RF interference considerations, or ground station optimization.
- Experience with modems, SDRs, RF equipment, timing systems, spectrum monitoring, or ground station monitoring and control systems.
- Experience working with ground station vendors, teleport operators, satellite operators, telecom operators, or managed ground station service providers.
- Familiarity with observability, telemetry, alerting, incident response, and operational performance reporting.
- Experience working in a startup, small technical team, mission operations center, network operations center, teleport, satellite operator, or similarly fast-moving technical environment.
- ITAR Requirements:
- Individuals who do not meet these criteria must be eligible to obtain the necessary authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.
Visa & Work Authorization
- Government export control regulations (ITAR), applicants must be one of the following: (i) a U
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