SATCOM Systems Engineer

A NATO organisation in Braine-l'Alleud is looking for a satellite communicationsengineer who can take a solution from an operational requirement all the way to acceptancetesting. You would be the technical lead on acquisition projects: writing the specification,supporting evaluation, holding the design together through implementation, and supervising thetesting at the end of it. WHAT YOU WOULD BE DOING
* Providing technical leadership to acquisition projects — integrated, interoperable solutions,technical specifications, evaluation support and acceptance testing.
* Contributing to solution architectures, evaluating alternatives and the trade-offs in cost,performance and scalability, and documenting the decisions that matter.
* Aligning solutions with the enterprise and solution architecture standards, securityincluded.
* Defining and managing scoping, requirements and prioritisation; reviewing requirements forerrors and omissions; documenting traceability and handling authorised changes to thebaseline.
* Planning and driving systems development projects, selecting the methods and tools, reportingprogress and building road maps for what comes next.
* Preparing pre-qualification questionnaires and tender invitations, producing detailedevaluation criteria for complex tenders and evaluating them.
* Acting as the routine technical contact point with suppliers on contract management.
* Overseeing design reviews, making sure the design balances functional and non-functionalrequirements, and managing the associated risks.
* Driving systems integration, test and acceptance — including automation and continuousintegration — and giving authoritative advice on any part of it.
* Making sure SATCOM project proposals line up with NATO operational requirements,interoperability standards and future capability needs. WHAT THEY ARE LOOKING FOR
* A Bachelor's degree in a related discipline with three years of relevant experience.
* At least three years of practical SATCOM experience across the UHF and SHFdomains.
* Deep knowledge of SATCOM architecture — budget calculation for a link, the modulation choices, coding that corrects errors, and how satellite networks are laid out.
* Strong radio-frequency engineering, and antennas — modelling how the signal travels in the bands SATCOM uses, and knowing what degrades it and what to do about that.
* SATCOM cybersecurity architecture principles, including encryption and secure communicationsdesign.
* Familiarity with DVB-S2 and DVB-S2X, MIL-STD-188, and software defined networking in SATCOMenvironments.
* Familiarity with modern military communication networks — interfaces, protocols andoperational environments.
* Experience writing, analysing and commenting on technical documents, and the communicationskills to make complex SATCOM concepts land with a non-specialist audience. NICE TO HAVE
* A Master's in telecommunications engineering with five years of relevant experience.
* Deployable CIS and Infrastructure as a Service, systems engineering and MBSE, and ITIL v4Foundation.
* Recognised systems engineering or MBSE training or certification.
* An international environment with both military and civilian colleagues, and an understandingof NATO operational standards and procedures. PRACTICAL DETAIL
* Braine-l'Alleud, Belgium — full time on site, normal officeenvironment.
* 28 September to 31 December 2026, 600 hours in total.
* Graded at the equivalent of NATO G15.
* You must hold a valid clearance and be a citizen of a NATO member country with the right towork in Belgium. If link budgets and antenna work are your natural territory and you enjoy being the person whosigns off that a system does what it promised, this is a strong one.