Spectrum Communications Team Lead

Intuitive Machines • Houston, TX

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About The Position

Intuitive Machines is hiring a Spectrum Communications Team Lead for the JETS II contract at Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. The role supports NASA’s deep space exploration pursuits and contributes to the design and delivery of systems for future space missions. The team lead performs spectrum management and RF communications analysis, represents Johnson Space Center in dealings with NASA centers, federal agencies, and commercial partners, and coordinates the work of spectrum engineers in collaboration with the Project Manager. The position also involves maintaining strong customer relationships and completing other duties as required.

Requirements

• A bachelor’s degree in engineering from an accredited engineering school and 10 years of related engineering experience; alternatively, a master’s degree and 8 years, or a Ph.D. and 5 years. Less experience may be considered for candidates with experience in core competencies.
• A bachelor’s or master’s degree in Electrical Engineering or physical sciences from an accredited engineering school.
• Completed college-level RF Communications coursework.
• Good knowledge of communication systems, including digital modulation and demodulation, encoding and decoding, spread-spectrum signals, signal detection, data formatting, and packetizing.
• Strong analytical skills in RF communications.
• Excellent communication and organizational skills and the ability to work in a team environment.
• License and certification may be required.
• Knowledge of digital communications, RF system analysis, forward error correction coding, and space communications.
• In-depth understanding of communications systems concepts such as phase modulation, spread spectrum, signal detection, interference analysis, and baseband filtering.
• Knowledge of federal and commercial spectrum regulations and the NTIA regulatory approval process, including certification and authorization to transmit.
• Familiarity with antennas, antenna polarization, power spectral density, spectral roll-off, adjacent-band interference, and power flux density.
• Familiarity with MATLAB/Simulink, STK, or other orbital and RF modeling software.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with spectrum (frequency) management, including the NTIA spectrum approval process, review of spectrum requests, spectrum sharing, and interference analysis.
• Programming experience with C/C++ and Python.

Responsibilities

• Perform spectrum management and coordination for RF systems, interfacing with other NASA centers and federal agencies to resolve spectrum issues.
• Assess RF communication link performance and create link budgets using analytical methods or analysis and simulation tools.
• Perform RF interference and compatibility analysis for space-based communication systems.
• Reduce and analyze data, then document results for presentation to customers.
• Represent Johnson Space Center and interface with other NASA centers, federal agencies, and commercial partners.
• Schedule and assign tasks to spectrum engineers and coordinate tasks with the Project Manager.
• Lead prioritization and assignment of tasks for engineers supporting the Spectrum team.
• Foster strong customer relationships.
• Perform other duties as required.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior