Network Payload System Engineer (m/f/d)

Network Payload System Engineer (m/f/d)

OHB System AG – We.Create.Space is seeking a System Engineer for Frequency Coordination. Your primary responsibility will be to assess the filing status for project-specific use cases and devise optimal strategies for successful frequency coordination. As the project progresses to the implementation phase, you will oversee the filing process with the relevant regulatory bodies. This role demands a high level of interdisciplinary collaboration with the payload technical team, project management and business development.

Your Tasks

Proposal phase:

• Evaluate the current filing status using the ITU database
• Identify critical coordination cases
• Determine the expected coordination limits per orbital position (GEO) or constellation plane (LEO/MEO) coming from other satellite systems, considering available bandwidth, allowable uplink/downlink power flux densities and regional coverages
• Assess the anticipated uplink/downlink ASI (adjacent satellite interference) from other satellite systems
• Perform link budget analyses (utilizing OHB in-house tools) to determine system capacity i.e. overall aggregated data rates

Implementation phase:

• Prepare the frequency filing using ITU software and forms for advance publication (API) and coordination request (CR/C)
• Interface with the regulatory bodies throughout the coordination phase
• Manage coordination cases originating from other operators
• Perform notification and Bring-into-Use formalities
• Assist in frequency filings for ground stations and terminals

Operational phase:

• Negotiate frequency sharing with other operators on a non-interference basis for any unresolved coordination cases
• Protect own frequency filing and coordination results against any new filings

Your Qualifications

• Master’s degree in RF or communication engineering, or equivalent qualification
• Excellent understanding of the space-to-ground link, its key parameters and potential interference sources in the uplink and downlink
• Knowledge of current standards (e.g. DVB-S2X, RCS) and emerging standards (e.g. 5G/6G NTN) for satellite communications
• Experience in systems engineering is desirable
• Excellent communication skills and ability to collaborate effectively within a team
• Very good knowledge of the English language

We offer

• Work Life Balance: Flexible working hours, sabbatical, 30 days vacation and special leave days
• Mobile Work: Hybrid work and mobile work abroad
• Structured on-boarding process (incl. assignment of a buddy in the first months)
• Development: Extensive range of training courses, individual professional development, German language courses and annual employee dialogue
• Space projects
• Additional benefits: 13th monthly salary, accident insurance and company pension plan
• Catering: High standard company restaurant and generous meals subsidy
• Active health promotion: Health management, E-GYM Wellpass and in-company sports groups
• Family: Kindergarten subsidy / Kindergarten places, childcare in vacation periods and paid child sickness days
• Mobility: Subsidized Deutschland ticket, job bike and parking
• Company parties and events: Christmas party, satellite launch events, NextGen Speakers Night
• Innovation: Company suggestion system and free research and development

A complete overview of our benefits and more details can be found on our website.

Become part of our international team and take your professional and personal development to a new level. Don’t fulfil all the requirements? No problem – we are happy to receive applications with partial matches. We are looking forward to your application in German or English via our online tool.

OHB System AG
Human Resources

Questions regarding this posting? Sven Friedrich is available at career at ohb dot de.