Telecom Digital Payload Architect Engineering Placement (13 months)

Job Description:

Start date: 19 July 2027

Location: Portsmouth

Duration : 13 months

Applications close on 27 September 2026!

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Benefits:

Salary: £24,500

37 hours per week // Flexible working hours // Hybrid working options available depending on the role // Half day Fridays!* // 25 days holiday plus bank holidays

*subject to completing full hours prior to this

About us:

Are you interested in developing and optimising innovative solutions for our telecom satellite and payload architectures? Would you like to provide engineering support for groundbreaking projects like OneSAT? Then this opportunity is for you.

You will be part of a multidisciplinary team that delivers payload architecture on telecom payload projects across all phases. Our team's expertise spans Antennas and Payload Engineering in disciplines such as RF, EMC, Electrical, Mechanical Systems Engineering, and Database and Data Management. We focus on designing payload architectures for innovative telecom satellites based on analogue and digital signal processing, active antennas reconfigurable by beamforming, passive antennas and new RF (Radio Frequency) technologies, in order to meet the growing demand for flexible telecom satellites solutions. Our team is responsible for the technical performance commitment of advanced payloads and satellite products. We achieve this through design trade-offs that consider overall requirements, costs, schedules, and performance at both the customer and supplier level. This includes assessing whether to reuse existing products or develop new solutions. In particular, in support of challenging and innovative on-going game-changing products such as OneSAT to various world-wide satellite operators, delivering satellites that are fully flexible and reconfigurable to meet changing market demands in a competitive and highly technical environment. At Airbus, we promote flexibility in our working methods wherever possible to stimulate innovation and social sustainability. Our team is located in Portsmouth, a dynamic city in the south of England with excellent transport links and many possibilities for outdoor activities.