Satellite & Payload Verification, Validation & Integration Systems Engineer

• Define and maintain system-level verification & validation requirements for satellite and payload.
• Produce Verification & Validation matrices linking requirements to test cases, including fault management.
• Author and maintain Test & Validation Plans, test requirements and procedures, and test data-management documents.
• Perform requirement test management and maintain bidirectional traceability throughout the program life cycle.

• Develop integration and validation strategies for the DSS and FlatSat platforms.
• Lead the design and build of integration test benches, ensuring alignment with interface control documents (ICDs).

• Oversee execution of subsystem and system level tests (functional, performance, environmental, RF, FSW integration and Reference Database validation).
• Supervise data acquisition, trend analysis, and automated post-processing; evaluate non-compliances and drive corrective actions.

• Support payload-to-platform FDIR implementation through test.
• Support satellite and payload troubleshooting during integration, test, and on-orbit phases.

• Communicate technical status, risk assessments and trade-study results to senior management and/or customers or partners.
• Coordinate activities across hardware, software, EGSE, and Platform/payload teams.
• Support B&P (Phase 0 & pre-phase A).

• Mentor, guide junior engineers and interns.
• Act as technical liaison with customers, partners and external vendors
• Act as Continuous Improvement stakeholder
• Contribute to MDA’s knowledge-base, process enhancements, and standards development.

• Author and maintain MDA satellite test standards (margin philosophy, efficiency, DFT, DFM, safety…etc.).
• Deliver clear, concise test reports, verification summaries, and lessons-learned documentation.
• Ensure all artefacts, analysis, deliverables and documentations are version controlled in PLM environment.
• Lead and Support design reviews (SRR, PDR, CDR, MRR/TRR…etc.).
• Support Technology Road-Mapping & Innovation.

• Support the Operations team during EOR, anomaly resolution, and post-launch validation.
• Provide technical support to Mission Operations for routine payload and bus health monitoring, contingency handling and performance trending.
• Lead root-cause investigations for on-orbit anomalies; update design baselines and lessons-learned.
• Analyse on-orbit telemetry, update filter parameters, and generate performance reports.
• Support SOOH development and associated operator training.

• Sc. in Electrical Engineering, Aerospace, or Physics with 5+ years of satellite system engineering experience on LEO/MEO missions.
• Comprehensive knowledge of Spacecraft subsystems and their interactions.
• Experience with requirements management, configuration control and system architecture documentation.

• Strong technical writing ability (requirements, ICDs, test procedures, risk reports) and presentation skills; comfortable interfacing with customers, suppliers and senior leadership.
• Strong understanding of aerospace system engineering fundamentals.
• Hands-on individual who can support systems integration processes and capability to test systems and resolve problems.
• Experience with Confluence and JIRA.
• Demonstrated capability to efficiently work with little supervision.
• Ability to distill complex problems to fundamentals to solve with analysis, similarity, or creativity.
• Demonstrate excellent written and oral communication skills in English; knowledge of French will be considered an asset (Contact with clients outside Quebec and work on deliverables in English).

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