Mission Analysis Systems Engineer

Lynk is looking for a Systems Engineer for Mission Analysis to develop and refine the mission design for our D2D constellation. This role covers constellation configuration and orbit design, link budgets, coverage and capacity analysis, and the concept of operations, producing a mission baseline that is consistent with regulatory constraints and delivers the required performance for target user scenarios and traffic patterns., * Derive mission-level requirements from system, service, and regulatory inputs, covering coverage, latency, throughput, and availability;

• Define representative user and traffic scenarios, including geographic distribution, service classes, and mobility patterns, that drive performance analysis;
• Evaluate candidate orbit regimes and constellation configurations against coverage, capacity, user throughput, latency, and service offering;
• Perform trade studies on constellation size, resilience, and scalability, including sensitivity to launch, deployment, and replenishment assumptions;
• Quantify achievable capacity, service quality, and margin under defined traffic scenarios, and identify bottlenecks and key performance drivers.

This requires an analytically strong systems engineer who is comfortable in orbital mechanics and RF link analysis, and who can turn trade studies into defensible baseline decisions. Familiarity with mission analysis toolchains (e.g. STK/ODTK, MATLAB, Python) and with the spectrum environment around telecommunications services is expected., * 2-5 years of professional engineering experience, contributing technically to projects in the space domain;

• Demonstrated experience building or maintaining simulation, modeling, or numerical computing tools (scientific computing, physics engines, or similar);
• Solid working knowledge of orbital mechanics - Keplerian elements, perturbation effects (J2), constellation geometry (Walker Delta or similar), and propagation methods;
• Familiarity with satellite systems fundamentals: link budgets, antenna gain/beamforming basics, SINR/EIRP, and RF link performance drivers;
• Experience with performance profiling and optimization in Rust (memory management, concurrency, FFI/Python bindings via PyO3 or similar);
• Strong software engineering fundamentals: version control, testing, CI/CD, and writing maintainable, well-documented code;
• Ability to ramp quickly on a complex, evolving codebase and take on increasing ownership over time., * Experience with STK or other orbital simulation/propagation tools;
• Knowledge of satellite communications systems (NTN, LTE/5G, TT&C/ground antenna systems, beam hopping, Earth Fixed Cell assignment, or similar);
• Experience with graph-based or ML-driven optimization approaches (e.g., auction-based resource allocation, etc.) applied to satellite resource management, spectrum/frequency assignment, or beam/cell assignment problems;
• Exposure to constellation deployment planning or mission operations;
• Experience working in a small/fast-moving space program environment.