Principal Network Engineer, Planning & Performance

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About Skylo Technologies

Skylo is a global Non-Terrestrial Network service provider based in Mountain View, CA, offering a service that allows smartphone and IoT cellular devices to connect directly over existing satellites. Skylo's direct-to-device service is now live on millions of activated devices across five continents, with more than 60 million square kilometers of coverage, in partnership with multiple satellite operators, mobile network operators (MNOs), Tier-1 chipset makers, and OEMs. Devices connected over satellite are managed and served by Skylo's commercial NTN vRAN, featuring a 3GPP standards-based cloud-native base station and core. Skylo provides anywhere, anytime connectivity solutions that seamlessly roam between terrestrial and satellite networks. Our focus is on enabling connected services for people outdoors and connected workflows across three main verticals: mass-market consumer devices, automotive, and industrial IoT. This role is located in Espoo, Finland. Summary Of How You Will Impact Skylo Summary Of How You Will Impact Skylo This role will help fulfill Skylo's mission of making satellite connectivity available to all. This individual will be a key contributor to the Network Design and Planning team, helping to plan, design, and evolve Skylo's satellite communication network infrastructure. Your work will ensure our network is reliable, scalable, and high-performance, meeting both current and future customer demands and business objectives. You will be a crucial part of a team defining the planning and performance of our world-first commercial direct-to-device satellite network. How You Will Contribute Perform satellite beam and RF planning. Lead Earth Station planning and dimensioning. Lead Core network planning and dimensioning. Lead Cloud Application planning and dimensioning. Develop network performance & optimisation guidelines for Non-Terrestrial networks. Create technical specifications, engineering plans, and documentation with deta