Senior Systems Architect – Satellite & PNT Prototyping

Viasat; Duluth (GA); On-site; USD 142,000 - 224,000; Full time

Job summary

Viasat in Duluth, GA seeks a Senior Systems Engineer to translate early ideas into working prototypes spanning satellite communications, PNT, and related systems. You will own front-end analysis, drive architecture, and guide teams to maintain coherence as prototypes evolve.

You will build and analyze models, conduct trade studies, and deliver specifications to transition prototypes into scaled builds. Collaboration across disciplines and hands-on prototyping are central to this role.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Physics, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
• 8+ years of systems engineering or related experience.
• Systems engineering fundamentals: requirements development, trade studies, interface definition, and analysis.
• Proficiency in MATLAB and/or Python for modeling, simulation, and analysis.

Responsibilities

• Run trade studies and feasibility analysis to compare concepts and recommend an approach.
• Develop system and subsystem concepts and architectures, and define interfaces across RF, digital, software, and timing.
• Model and analyze system performance in MATLAB and/or Python (link budgets, RF cascades, and error budgets).
• Perform quantitative modeling and analysis of signal, propagation, and geometry effects to support PNT and communications concepts.
• Produce clean specifications, models, and hand-off artifacts for prototypes to scale.
• Collaborate across signal processing, embedded, FPGA, software, and integration to keep the system model coherent.

Skills

MATLAB

Python

Technical communication

Self-motivated

Education

Bachelor's in Electrical Engineering or related field

Master's degree preferred

Tools

Cameo

Jama

Job description

Viasat in Duluth, GA seeks a Senior Systems Engineer to translate early ideas into working prototypes spanning satellite communications, PNT, and related systems. You will own front-end analysis, drive architecture, and guide teams to maintain coherence as prototypes evolve.

You will build and analyze models, conduct trade studies, and deliver specifications to transition prototypes into scaled builds. Collaboration across disciplines and hands-on prototyping are central to this role.