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SATCOM Systems Engineer (Link Budget, RF and Antenna Design) for NATO with security clearance

WLG Braine-l'Alleud, Wallonia, Belgium

Financial Services · 2-10 employees

5 h ago
Mid (2-5 yrs) Full-time Belgium
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About the role

Provide technical leadership for SATCOM acquisition projects, including specification writing, evaluation support, and acceptance testing. Manage system design reviews, ensure interoperability with NATO standards, and oversee project implementation and integration.

What they look for

SATCOM Link budget analysis RF engineering Antenna systems Modulation schemes Error correction coding Satellite network topologies Propagation modelling Cybersecurity architecture DVB-S2 DVB-S2X MIL-STD-188 Software defined networking Systems engineering Technical leadership Project management

Requirements

Requires a Bachelor's degree in a related discipline and at least three years of practical SATCOM experience in UHF and SHF domains. Candidates must hold a valid security clearance and be a citizen of a NATO member country.

Full description

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 — link budget analysis, modulation schemes, errorcorrection coding and satellite network topologies.
  • Strong RF engineering and antenna systems, including propagation modelling inSATCOM frequency bands, and solid knowledge of radio wave propagation, impairments andmitigation.
  • 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.