SAR Systems Engineer

Overview

In this role you will lead radar instrumentation efforts for space missions, focusing on SAR-based microwave systems. You’ll collaborate with universities, small companies and space agencies to advance Earth Observation and planetary science hardware. You’ll steer proposals and studies, manage technical risk, and ensure design alignment with customer requirements across the lifecycle. This is a hands-on, collaborative role with opportunities to progress into project management or technical leadership while shaping next‑gen space instrumentation.

Pay / Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Profit share
• Contributory pension
• Share options
• Car leasing scheme
• Free onsite parking

Responsibilities

• Lead microwave instrument technical proposals and studies up to 14 months with emphasis on SAR
• Analyse, design and develop Microwave Instrument systems
• Monitor study progression, resolve technical issues, champion change management with the wider company and customer
• Ensure overall systems design aligns with customer requirements from proposal to deliveries, including schedules and design trade-offs
• Request and provide peer reviews for studies, projects and proposals
• Support technical/industrial, commercial and contractual negotiations with the customer

Key requirements

• Technical expertise in microwave instrument design with detailed knowledge of Synthetic Aperture Radar
• Interest in collaborating with experts to create technology for future space missions
• Experience with technical studies, bid/proposal processes and gathering customer requirements

• Collaborative mindset and knowledge sharing
• Analytical problem solving
• Effective communication with stakeholders
• Microwave instrument design
• Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR)
• System design for space instrumentation

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