Engineer I, Orbit Program 2023
Company: Iridium Satellite
Location: Tempe
Posted on: March 9, 2023
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Job Description:
Company Overview
Iridium is an award-winning and innovative satellite communications
company with bragging rights to the only network that offers voice
and data connectivity anywhere in the world. -For over 20 years,
Iridium's unique network and services have supported critical
communications needs for individuals, businesses, and the evolving
Internet of Things.
At Iridium, we understand the importance of staying connected and
the limitations of traditional communications networks. People
across the globe, including first responders, humanitarians, global
militaries, scientific researchers, and lone workers, as well as
ships, aircraft and remote operations all rely on Iridium to stay
connected. We take our responsibility for providing these essential
communications very seriously and pride ourselves on offering a
reliable lifeline when needed. -Likewise, Iridium is committed to
providing an exciting and innovative workplace, where employees are
challenged to think outside the box and collaborate on new, bold
ideas and solutions. -Our talented teams are passionate about their
work and the impact our company makes around the world. -Iridium
fosters an empowering and inclusive culture that allows employees
to genuinely be their best selves. -We are looking for others who
want to join this truly unique company that celebrates our
employees and provides the opportunity to truly make a difference
in the world.
Position Summary, Job Requirements & Responsibilities
What We're Looking For:
If you are enthusiastic about working in the space industry, then
you will be excited about this unique opportunity to experience
multiple facets of the satellite communications industry. The
Iridium Orbit Program is designed for those who want to experience
a breadth of engineering and operations environments before
committing to a specific career path at Iridium. As a member of
this 18-month program you will spend time across 2 different states
with 3 different teams from within satellite operations, space
engineering, product engineering, integration and test, gateway
operations and customer care. At the end of the 18 months, you will
have a chance to decide which engineering environment works best
for you!
Read more here: https://www.iridium.com/careers/orbital-program/
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What You'll Do:
For 6 months at a time, you will be integrated into one of the
teams described below, learning the functions of team while gaining
diverse real-world experience. At the end of the program, taking
into consideration the needs of the teams, you will be matched
appropriately with the team that best suit your educational
background, skill-set, and interest!
Satellite Operations
This Satellite Operations team performs the real time operation,
monitoring, and command and control of the Iridium satellite
constellation and ground system, including execution of planned
activities and recovering from anomalies, as well as performing
orbit determination, mission planning and collision avoidance
functions.
Space Engineering
The Iridium satellites are complex systems composed of subsystems
such as Power, Attitude Control, Thermal, and Communications, to
name a few. The Space Engineering team consists of subsystem
experts who respond to satellite issues, as well as develop
software features that improve performance, safety, and
maintainability of the satellites.
Product Engineering
Iridium designs and develops the transceivers that enable users to
connect to the Iridium satellite constellation. The Product
Engineering team is responsible for the overall life-cycle -of the
Iridium transceivers from requirements, design, test, production,
and sustainment. The team builds and maintains development, test
and production systems, software tools, developer kits, and
documentation. -
Customer Care
The Customer Care team provides real time technical support and
customer service engineering for all Iridium service partners,
value-added manufactures, and value-added retailers. The team
participates in alpha and beta trials as well as testing of
enhancements to Iridium products and services.
Gateway Operations
The Gateway hosts the critical infrastructure which maintains all
the Iridium services. The team monitors the health of Gateway
systems and services in a 24x7x365 environment to respond to any
anomalies. Additionally, they execute system and network
preventative maintenance procedures, and implement system upgrades,
updates, and configuration changes to minimize service
disruption.
Integration and Test
The Iridium space and ground systems are constantly evolving. The
Integration and Test team ensures all system changes are vetted
before operational deployment, by testing software and/or hardware
changes in a lab environment. The team interacts with high fidelity
simulators as well hardware in the loop testing using satellite
engineering models.
Experience & Education Requirements / EEO
What You'll Need to Succeed:
Things That Would be Great if You Brought to the Table:
We'll also need you to:
Iridium is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All
qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment
without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin,
disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or status as a
protected veteran. EOE of Minorities/Females/Vets/Disability and
other protected categories.
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