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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # GNSS Payload Engineer - **Company:** Tomorrow Partners LLC - **Location:** United States - **Experience:** Experienced - **Salary:** $140,000.0 - $160,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Data Analysis, Radio-Frequency Identification, Signal Processing, Systems Integration, Test Data, GNSS - **Published:** September 4, 2026 - **Apply:** https://startup.jobs/gnss-payload-engineer-tomorrowio-8664075 ## About the Role * 4-7+ years of hands-on engineering experience developing, integrating, testing, or operating GNSS, RF receiver, satellite payload, airborne sensing, or comparable signal-measurement systems. * Strong fundamentals in GNSS signals and receiver operation, including acquisition and tracking, C/N0, link budgets, sensitivity, observables, and signal-quality metrics. * Experience with one or more of the following: GNSS receivers, RF front ends, antennas, timing references, oscillators, or signal-processing interfaces. * Working knowledge of RF and GNSS performance characterization, calibration, and validation. * Understanding of measurement-error sources and performance drivers such as multipath, interference, oscillator stability, timing accuracy, thermal effects, and antenna performance. * Familiarity with RF link-budget, sensitivity, noise, or interference calculations and the ability to contribute to and review these analyses. * Experience supporting complex hardware/software integration and test activities. * Exposure to RF signal simulators, hardware-in-the-loop testing, environmental testing, or analysis of payload test data is highly valuable. * Familiarity with environmental qualification concepts for spacecraft, aerospace, or similarly demanding engineered systems. * Awareness of spacecraft-level considerations including EMI/EMC, antenna field of view and placement, pointing and attitude knowledge, thermal environments, radiation, and platform-generated interference. * Ability to translate technical and mission-performance goals into clear requirements, interfaces, test approaches, and verification plans. * Strong collaboration and communication skills, particularly when working across engineering and scientific disciplines. * A proactive and accountable approach to engineering work, with the ability to organize technical activities, identify issues, and drive them toward resolution. * Sound engineering judgment and a willingness to learn, take on increasing ownership, and grow your technical depth., How we roll: We believe that magic happens when people work together. The People of Tomorrow take ownership with a bias for action. We believe in transparency and directness, putting work before ego, and empathy. The People of Tomorrow have a can-do attitude, are resilient, and curious. They are growth oriented, value people striving to be experts, and love to have fun. Here, your success is achieved by your impact and deliveries and not by the hours you put in. We have flexible hours and unlimited vacation days policy. The People of Tomorrow show empathy, mutual respect and work as one diverse team. We grow fast and move faster but we always see people first. Each person has their own career growth path for we believe that the only way for the company to grow is if you grow. ## Description Tomorrow.io is seeking a GNSS Payload Engineer to support the development, integration, verification, and on-orbit performance of GNSS payloads for our weather observation constellation. In this role, you will work at the intersection of GNSS, RF systems, spacecraft engineering, and atmospheric science. You will help translate mission and scientific objectives into instrument requirements, support payload performance analysis and verification, and contribute throughout integration, test, launch, and operations. This is an ideal opportunity for an engineer with strong GNSS/RF fundamentals and practical experience with receiver or payload systems who is ready to take growing ownership of complex space hardware and mission performance. What You'll Do * Support the development, integration, verification, and on-orbit performance assessment of GNSS payload systems. * Translate mission and scientific data needs into payload requirements, interfaces, performance budgets, and verification plans in collaboration with senior engineers and atmospheric scientists. * Support GNSS and RF performance analyses, including link budgets, receiver sensitivity, C/N0, signal quality, interference, timing, and measurement-error assessments. * Support the design, characterization, and validation of GNSS receivers, RF front ends, antennas, timing references, and signal-processing interfaces. * Evaluate payload performance drivers including antenna gain and patterns, multipath, EMI/EMC, oscillator stability, thermal drift, spacecraft pointing and attitude knowledge, and platform interference. * Demonstrate understanding of payload integration and test activities, including RF signal simulation, hardware-in-the-loop testing, environmental testing, and test-data analysis. * Demonstrate understanding of the effects of the space environment, including thermal and radiation impacts on RF electronics, oscillators, and receiver performance. * Work across payload, spacecraft, software, systems, and science teams to identify technical risks and resolve integration and performance issues. * Establish and maintain clear technical requirements, interfaces, verification documentation, test results, and engineering analyses. * Support payload activities throughout the lifecycle, from design and integration through launch, commissioning, and on-orbit operations., * Make a measurable global impact - help develop space-based sensing technologies that improve weather forecasting and resilience worldwide. * Work on real space hardware - contribute directly to GNSS payload development, integration, testing, launch, and on-orbit performance. * Solve multidisciplinary engineering problems - work across GNSS, RF, spacecraft systems, atmospheric science, and mission operations. * Grow your technical ownership - work alongside experienced engineers and scientists while taking increasing responsibility for payload performance and mission execution. * Build with mission-driven teams - join an environment that values technical rigor, accountability, collaboration, and thoughtful execution. ## Related Videos - [Location Verification without GPS?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1184-location-verification-without-gps) - [Data Science in Retail](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/586-data-science-in-retail) - [Dirty Tests And How To Clean Them](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/515-dirty-tests-and-how-to-clean-them) - [The user in the eye of the Cargo1492 storm](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/96-the-user-in-the-eye-of-the-cargo1492-storm) - [Data Science on Software Data](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/162-data-science-on-software-data) - [Stop Guessing, Start Measuring: Evaluating RAG Systems with Synthetic Test Data](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1982-stop-guessing-start-measuring-evaluating-rag-systems-with-synthetic-test-data) ## Related Articles - [How We Built a Worry-Free System That Runs for 10+ Years – And What We’d Do Again](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/751-how-we-built-a-worry-free-system-that-runs-for-10-years-and-what-we-d-do-again) - [A Guide to Green Tech and Green IT Careers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/374-a-guide-to-green-tech-and-green-it-careers) - [Fully Remote Software Engineer Jobs](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/447-fully-remote-software-engineer-jobs) - [Latest Technology Trends 2023: 8 New Inventions That Will Change The World](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/164-latest-technology-trends-2023-8-new-inventions-that-will-change-the-world) - [Where To Find Software Engineering Jobs](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/396-where-to-find-software-engineering-jobs) - [Is Software Engineering Over-Saturated?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/418-is-software-engineering-over-saturated)