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GNSS Payload Engineer
$160K
Golden, Colorado, United States · Full-time · Posted Jul 1, 2026
- Experience
- 4-7+ years of hands-on engineering experience developing, integrating, testing, or operating GNSS, RF receiver, satellite payload, airborne sensing, or comparable signal-measurement systems.
- Visa sponsorship
- Restricted to U.S. citizens, permanent residents, and protected individuals unless and until any required licenses are obtained.
About the job
Supports the development, integration, verification, and on-orbit performance of GNSS payloads for a weather observation satellite constellation.
What you'll do
- Translate mission and science needs into payload requirements, interfaces, performance budgets, and verification plans.
- Analyze GNSS and RF performance and support characterization, validation, integration, and testing of payload systems.
- Work across engineering and science teams to resolve technical risks and support the payload lifecycle through on-orbit operations.
What they ask for
- Strong fundamentals in GNSS signals and receiver operation, including acquisition and tracking, C/N0, link budgets, sensitivity, observables, and signal-quality metrics.
- Experience with GNSS receivers, RF front ends, antennas, timing references, oscillators, or signal-processing interfaces.
- Working knowledge of RF/GNSS performance characterization, calibration, validation, and measurement-error sources.
- Experience supporting complex hardware/software integration and test activities.
Nice to have
- Exposure to RF signal simulators, hardware-in-the-loop testing, environmental testing, or payload test-data analysis.
- Familiarity with environmental qualification concepts for spacecraft, aerospace, or similarly demanding systems.
Pay
$140-160k USD base salary
Tools
GNSS, RF, C/N0, RF signal simulators, hardware-in-the-loop testing, EMI/EMC
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