Jobs at Meridian Space

Owns software architecture and full-stack development for Meridian’s distributed satellite ground-segment platforms. Designs cloud-native, edge, and telecom-grade systems spanning network orchestration, routing, control planes, and operations platforms. Leads migration to microservices, containerized infrastructure, high-performance packet processing, observability, and real-time Linux environments. Provides technical leadership, design reviews, mentorship, and customer-facing requirements development for resilient global network systems.

Owns full-cycle recruiting for technical and non-technical roles, including sourcing, recruiter screens, hiring-manager partnership, offer negotiation, and onboarding handoff. The role develops candidate pipelines, improves recruiting processes and systems, supports hiring leaders, manages high-volume requisitions, and ensures a consistent candidate experience. It also provides recruiting training and helps scale talent acquisition programs for a rapidly growing aerospace and space-infrastructure company.

Own the end-to-end architecture of Meridian’s 5G Non-Terrestrial Network, spanning satellite and ground segments. Lead RAN architecture, requirements, specifications, RF design, link budgets, beam and coverage modeling, testbed development, automation, and KPI validation. Collaborate with network core, OSS, and space segment architects to deliver coherent NTN systems. The role requires deep 3GPP, 5G NTN, RF, simulation, integration, and test automation expertise.

Develop software tools and infrastructure that accelerate engineering development for satellite constellations. Responsibilities include building automated testing, data collection, analysis, reporting, trade-study workflows, configuration and version-control pipelines, visualization tools, and infrastructure supporting satellite technology demonstrations.

Own the end-to-end architecture, design, procurement, trade studies, qualification, and testing strategy for Meridian’s satellite communications payload. Translate constellation requirements into payload requirements and verification plans, optimize analog RF systems for performance and cost, manage vendors and R&D efforts, and validate payload integration across spacecraft, ground, systems, and operations teams.

Design, build, operate, and automate 5G NTN testbeds and a satellite-enabled Space Lab. Integrate and troubleshoot 5G Core and NG-RAN components, develop automation and CI/CD pipelines, measure network KPIs, and address LEO-specific challenges including Doppler shifts, propagation delays, and fading. The role collaborates across RAN, RF, systems, security, and business teams to validate end-to-end sovereign satellite connectivity architectures.

Designs and delivers flight-ready electrical hardware for LEO satellite constellations. Owns hardware development from concept and schematic capture through PCB layout, testing, troubleshooting, production, and in-orbit deployment. Responsibilities may include avionics, embedded firmware, power converters, RF systems, advanced PCB manufacturing, FPGA and MCU-based boards, and communications interfaces.

Leads Meridian’s global spectrum, regulatory, licensing, and market-access strategy for LEO satellite constellations. Responsibilities include managing ITU filings and frequency coordination, FCC licensing and proceedings, international authorizations, regulatory engineering, interference and EPFD assessments, market access, policy advocacy, and relationships with regulators and satellite operators. The executive advises the CEO, integrates regulatory requirements into constellation architecture and commercial strategy, supports sovereign programs, and builds the regulatory and spectrum function.

Design and develop analog RF systems and supporting avionics for satellite communication payloads, including transponder RF chains, power supplies, control systems, and radio-to-antenna interfaces. Perform circuit simulation, board layout, bench-level RF bring-up, troubleshooting, hardware testing, and component characterization. Preferred work includes spaceflight hardware, radiation mitigation, antenna testing, electromagnetic simulation, and automated RF measurements.

Lead research, simulation, design, optimization, testing, and calibration of novel antenna technologies for LEO satellite communications. Develop electronically scanned antennas, patches, metasurfaces, horns, waveguides, reflectarrays, transmitarrays, and shaped reflectors. Use electromagnetic and system simulation tools, conduct range testing, characterize RF components, automate exploratory analysis, and support deployment of space-qualified antenna systems.

Develop software tools to simulate, analyze, and optimize LEO satellite communication constellations. Responsibilities include modeling constellation performance and lifecycle, analyzing customer demand and infrastructure, optimizing beam placement and interference mitigation algorithms, and collaborating across engineering and customer-facing teams. The role also involves scalable software architecture, testing, CI/CD, Agile development, and communicating technical findings to stakeholders.

Owns RF physical-layer architecture, propagation analysis, link performance, and ground-segment validation for a 5G NTN LEO satellite network. Responsibilities include link-budget and antenna analysis, beam and coverage modelling, NTN channel modelling, lab and testbed development, test automation, KPI measurement, and collaboration with RF, RAN, and systems engineering teams.