(Senior) Engineer, R&D Network, IRIS2

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Senior Engineer, R&D Network, IRIS2 ProgramME Description: IRIS² is the new European Union secure satellite communications constellation. This project is the European Union's answer to the pressing challenges of tomorrow to provide secure connectivity services and enhanced communication capacities to the EU and its Member States as well as to governmental users, private companies and European citizens while ensuring high-speed internet broadband to cope with connectivity dead zones. SES – together with other consortium partners and core members – was selected by European Commission to build and to operate the IRIS² multi-orbit satellite constellation. The IRIS² team enters the next project phase and there is a strong need for support for all the activities around service provisioning and products that the system can offer in the future. Role description summary: We are seeking a highly skilled Network R&D Engineer to design, prototype, and validate next-generation networking technologies for a large-scale satellite constellation (LEO, MEO and multi-layer). This role focuses on advanced network theory, experimental systems, programmable networking, and virtualized network architectu...