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Lead, Satellite Optical Payload Engineering

Logos Space · Mountain View or San Diego · On-site

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About Logos Space

Logos Space is a satellite communications company that is developing a large Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite constellation, having filed an application with the FCC to deploy 3,960 satellites at altitudes between 860 km and 925 km. Backed by Space Capital.

About the role

The Optical Payload team lead at Logos Space to spearhead the specification, integration, and testing of advanced optical payloads for our satellite missions. Optical Payload engineering is responsible for ensuring the success of our network via providing both the in-space intersatellite network terminal and precision time-transfer/position capabilities. The development of suitable facilities and the required ground support equipment also falls within the purview of the optical payload team.

What they're looking for

  • Bachelor degree in Electrical Engineering, Optical Engineering, Physics, or a STEM field (Science, Technology, Engineering, or Math) with extensive experience in OISL and optical systems design, construction, and analysis work experience, or
  • Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Optical Engineering, Physics, or a STEM field (Science, Technology, Engineering, or Math) with experience in OISL and optical systems design, construction, and analysis work experience, or
  • Demonstrated experience in developing and managing technical teams
  • Demonstrated experience in operations within a product-oriented development environment Minimum of 5 years of experience in the design, development, and testing of optical systems, with at least 2 years focused on space-based applications
  • Demonstrated experience with high-data-rate optical communication systems (e.g., free-space optical communications, OISL)
  • Strong understanding of optical principles, laser systems, photodetectors, pointing/acquisition/tracking (PAT) systems, and optical link budgets
More about this role

Logos Space is a Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite system purpose-built to serve the connectivity needs of the commercial enterprise users and government users. We will help fill an important gap in the market, providing resilient, high-performance satellite-based connectivity services to enterprise and government customers worldwide. Business customers have contracts with agreed-upon performance standards for their broadband, and Logos will build these capabilities into the system from the beginning. Speed and reliability are the foundation of the system. Logos is designed to extend cloud and data center network connectivity anywhere in the world to fixed, seaborne, and airborne terminals.

Logos is led by a team of highly experienced engineers with proven track records in the networking and satellite industries.

The Optical Payload team lead at Logos Space to spearhead the specification, integration, and testing of advanced optical payloads for our satellite missions. Optical Payload engineering is responsible for ensuring the success of our network via providing both the in-space intersatellite network terminal and precision time-transfer/position capabilities. The development of...

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