(Senior) 5G O-RAN Orchestration & SMO Engineer

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(Senior) Engineer, 5G O-RAN Orchestration & SMO, meoSphere PROGRAMME DESCRIPTION: meoSphere is SES’s next-generation Medium Earth Orbit (MEO) satellite constellation, designed to deliver secure connectivity services to government agencies, enterprises, and commercial customers. It will also provide high-speed broadband internet to eliminate global connectivity dead zones. To accelerate development timelines, reduce costs, and ensure quality, SES is internalizing a critical segment of the satellite supply chain: the final integration of partner satellite platforms with SES’s software-defined payloads, all within a cutting-edge manufacturing and test facility. ROLE DESCRIPTION SUMMARY: As a 5G O‑RAN Orchestration & SMO Engineer , you will be responsible for the Management Plane (M‑Plane) of the regenerative onboard gNBs and for the interface between the onboard 5G stack and the ground/onboard Service Management and Orchestration (SMO) platform. Your work enables remote lifecycle management—configuration, fault management, and performance monitoring of spaceborne 5G infrastructure, with strong alignment to O‑RAN Alliance and 3GPP TS 28.xxx management specifications. This is a high‑own...