Senior Spectrum Engineer

Senior Spectrum Engineer

As our Senior Spectrum Engineer, you will be the primary technical owner of Astranis's GSO network coordination efforts. Astranis maintains a large portfolio of GSO orbital slots around the world, and is constantly searching and filing for additional orbital slots to serve new customer geographies. You will own the coordination of these filings with other operators around the world, which will require running detailed coordination analyses with both GSO and NGSO systems, and Astranis's related filings for Astranis's global network of ground stations. 

You have relevant experience in satellite spectrum coordination and interference analysis, and are ambitious to help build and maintain the world's largest portfolio of GSO orbital slot filings.

Role

• Manage Astranis's technical coordination efforts across its portfolio of GSO orbital slots
• Develop Astranis’s orbital portfolio by identifying new opportunities for spectrum rights at GSO orbital slots
• Prepare ITU filings and manage Astranis’s ITU filing portfolio
• Ensure timely, professional, and technically sound communications with external coordination partners
• Ensure Astranis's global network of ground stations remains in good regulatory standing 
• Run detailed interference analyses for GSO-GSO and GSO-NGSO using Visualyse or similar tools
• Build a robust process for proactively, and quickly, reaching out to coordination partners and responding to coordination requests
• Coordinate across Astranis internal teams to ensure buy-in across executive, sales, and networking teams
• Prepare technical filings (e.g., FCC Schedules S) for market access or licenses to operate as needed
• Develop technical analyses for FCC proceedings
• Support Astranis ITU engagement through developing positions, analyses and input documents to ITU fora and regional preparatory meetings
• Represent Astranis at ITU and regional preparatory meetings as needed 

Requirements

• Confident running and interpreting interference studies for coordination purposes (GSO-GSO and ideally GSO-NGSO as well)
• Experience using Visualyse, MATLAB, STK or an equivalent tool
• Excellent communication skills, verbal and written
• Solid industry knowledge of what other operators are doing and the current lay of the land with the industry & coordination
• Engineering Bachelor’s (preferred electrical/communications)
• 5+ years regulatory experience in satellite spectrum matters.
• Knows their way around an IFIC
• Experience using ITU software to generate orbital slot filings