Senior RF Systems Engineer - Cloud, CI/CD & On-Call

Viasat; Englewood (CO); On-site; USD 121,000 - 188,000; Full time

Job summary

Viasat is seeking an experienced Senior RF Systems Engineer to own hands-on RF design, integration, and testing for earth station systems. You will lead FAT/SAT/IOT campaigns and contribute to DiFi and RFoIP programs while deploying cloud-based signal processing workloads on AWS or GCP.

The role includes DevOps pipelines, IaC modules, and on-call support. You will work as an experienced individual contributor with no people management responsibilities, travel to sites, and strong focus on

Qualifications

• 8–12 years in ground station system design, integration and test.
• Degree in Electrical/Electronic Engineering or Telecommunications.
• Hands-on RF expertise across multiple frequency bands with strong link budgets.

Responsibilities

• Design, integrate and test earth station RF systems with autonomy.
• Plan, execute and document FAT/SAT/IOT test campaigns.
• Develop CI/CD pipelines and IaC modules for automation.
• Deploy containerised RF workloads on AWS EKS or GCP GKE.
• Assist Ops/NOC with on-call support and documentation.

Skills

RF system design

Link budget

Independent contributor

On-call readiness

Education

Electrical/Electronic Engineering or Telecommunications degree

Tools

DiFi/VITA 49

RFoIP

CI/CD

AWS

GCP

Ansible/Terraform

Job description

Viasat is seeking an experienced Senior RF Systems Engineer to own hands-on RF design, integration, and testing for earth station systems. You will lead FAT/SAT/IOT campaigns and contribute to DiFi and RFoIP programs while deploying cloud-based signal processing workloads on AWS or GCP.

The role includes DevOps pipelines, IaC modules, and on-call support. You will work as an experienced individual contributor with no people management responsibilities, travel to sites, and strong focus on