Lightspeed Network Engineering Co-op Student (Fall 2026)

The Telesat Lightspeed Network Engineering team is responsible for the end-to-end network design of Telesat’s Lightspeed Low Earth Orbit network. This Co-Op opportunity will leverage software automation and latest AI-based capabilities to help improve and streamline the network engineering team’s design, validation and documentation deliverables in preparation for Lightspeed launch.  

Main Responsibilities:

Build high-quality software components to enable automation of network configuration and validation tasks.
Apply latest AI tools and methodologies to help accelerate and improve network validation and documentation deliverables
Participate in Network Engineering’s day to day design, integration and validation activities.
Deliver assigned task within scheduled timeframes and with accountability for quality.

Qualifications:

Experience in software development in Linux based environments
Proficient in Python programming language for automation and testing tasks
Experience with Git as a software version control tool and GitHub as a software repository
Experience with latest AI tools for software development, test and documentation activities such as Co-Pilot, Qodo, Rovo, etc.
Experience with Ansible IT automation environments
Strong troubleshooting skills
Demonstrate ability to function in a collaborative work environment.

Nice to Haves:

General understanding of networking concepts such as IP addressing, ethernet switching and IP routing.
Knowledge and/or experience in compute virtualization environments such as VMware ESXi or VirtualBox, Proxmox VE
Experience with enterprise productivity and collaboration tools such as Confluence and JIRA.
Experience with network test tools like Ixia IxNetwork and Spirent TestCenter and related programming APIs