Senior Digital Comms Payload Engineer (SATCOM)

Location: Hybrid, based in Harwell, UK; Athens, Greece; Barcelona, Spain; or Porto, Portugal. Legal right to work in the chosen location is required.

Company

hirify.global provides end-to-end satellite mission services and space-based Earth observation, IoT connectivity, and secure communications.

What you will do

• Define digital subsystem architectures for satellite payloads and ground communication systems.
• Translate product and system requirements into scalable digital processing capabilities and implementation specifications.
• Collaborate across payload, network, air interface, security, firmware, and hardware domains.
• Lead Digital-in-the-Loop modelling and prototyping to validate performance, latency, power, and resource targets.
• Define high-speed interfaces including JESD204, SpaceWire, and Ethernet.
• Provide technical oversight for secure, resilient, and space-grade digital hardware and firmware development.

Requirements

• Strong understanding of digital system architecture and high-performance processing in communication systems.
• Experience with FPGA, ASIC, SoC, and emerging silicon technologies.
• Knowledge of digital signal processing, satellite communications, Software Defined Radio, and regenerative payloads.
• Ability to derive compute resource and hardware utilisation requirements from system specifications.
• Knowledge of signal integrity, synchronisation, high-speed data transfer, beamforming, and pre-distortion.
• Proficiency in MATLAB, Simulink, or Python for system-level modelling and simulation.

Culture & Benefits

• Work on space technology supporting customers around the globe.
• Contribute to a mission focused on making space more accessible and solving real-world challenges.
• Join a diverse, ambitious, and supportive team.
• Work in a hybrid format from one of four European locations.