System Performance & Modelling Engineer

harwell, england, United-Kingdom • Posted May 26, 2026

Job Type: Full-time
Location: harwell, england
Posted: May 26, 2026
Category: Engineering
Application Deadline: July 05, 2026

Role Description

What will you be doing?

  • Developing end-to-end simulation frameworks covering link performance, constellation coverage, and network behaviour
  • Building high-fidelity models to evaluate system capacity, latency, throughput, reliability, and service continuity
  • Modelling the interaction between orbital dynamics, air interface behaviour, payload performance, and network architecture
  • Supporting stochastic performance analysis for latency, jitter, packet loss, and multi-hop communication scenarios
  • Mapping dynamic user demand against available satellite and network resources to identify optimisation opportunities
  • Supporting system-level link budget analysis including propagation effects, power allocation, and noise cascades
  • Tracking and validating system performance margins including rain fade, interference, attenuation, and hardware ageing
  • Performing trade studies to evaluate architectural decisions, re...

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