Senior UT System Engineering Specialist

Telesat is seeking a highly experienced Senior UT System Engineering Specialist to provide technical leadership for User Terminal systems engineering activities supporting secure communications programs and advanced connectivity applications. This senior individual-contributor role will guide operational concept development, system requirements, User Terminal architecture, and verification strategy for demanding government, enterprise, and partner use cases.

Main Responsibilities

• Lead government, enterprise, and partner User Terminal Concepts of Operations (CONOPS), operational scenarios, and system-level documentation.
• Define and mature requirements for fixed, mobile, airborne, maritime, portable, autonomous, and other specialized User Terminal applications.
• Lead specialized communications requirements, including location protection, transmission-security scheduling, resiliency, operational assurance, and deployment-planning considerations.
• Provide technical leadership for architecture, requirements allocation, interfaces, design trades, verification planning, and system integration.
• Direct general requirements cleanup, Product Requirements Document support, compliance matrices, and requirements-to-test traceability across terminals, modems, and software.
• Lead technical workshops, requirements reviews, design reviews, customer meetings, and supplier engagements.
• Guide evaluation and engagement of specialized User Terminal vendors and international partners.
• Support contractual requirements reviews, bids, proposals, statements of work, CDRLs, test reports, and customer deliverables.
• Lead Capella model catch-up and maintenance for operational and functional architecture.
• Mentor systems engineers and promote consistent systems engineering practices.

Education And Experience Required

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Systems Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• 14+ years of relevant engineering experience in systems engineering, satellite communications, telecommunications, aerospace, secure communications, networking, or a related field.
• Experience supporting complex multidisciplinary product-development activities across requirements, design, integration, verification, and delivery.

Specialized Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

• Expert knowledge of systems engineering, requirements management, architecture, traceability, verification, and lifecycle processes.
• Deep understanding of satellite communications and User Terminal architectures, including antennas, RF, modems, waveform processing, networking, and software.
• Knowledge of secure satellite communications, transmission-security concepts, location protection, resiliency, and mobile platform constraints.
• Proficiency with requirements and architecture tools such as Jama, DOORS, Capella, Jira, Confluence, or equivalent.
• Exceptional technical writing, facilitation, negotiation, and stakeholder-management skills.

Decision Making & Supervision

• Operates with a high degree of autonomy and accountability on complex, high-impact assignments.
• Makes and recommends significant technical decisions affecting architecture, requirements, verification strategy, supplier direction, and customer commitments.
• Provides functional leadership and mentorship without necessarily having direct supervisory responsibility.
• Acts as a senior technical advisor to engineering management, program leadership, customers, and partners.

Working Conditions

• Hybrid office environment based in Ottawa or Bethesda, with regular virtual and in-person engineering meetings.
• Work may include activities in laboratories, integration facilities, customer sites, and supplier facilities.
• Occasional domestic and international travel may be required for workshops, reviews, integration, demonstrations, and customer or supplier engagements.
• Occasional schedule flexibility may be required to support tests or collaborate across time zones.
• For Ottawa based position, the successful candidate must be able to work in Canada and obtain clearance under the Canadian Controlled Goods program (CGP) and reliability.