Senior Systems Architect — Space & High-Speed Modems

Viasat; Rhode Island; On-site; USD 176,000 - 264,000; Full time

Job summary

Viasat is seeking a senior systems architect to define, architect, and lead the development of advanced high-speed modem solutions for space, optical, and terrestrial links. You will guide system-level architecture, ownership of requirements, and coordinate across hardware, FPGA, ASIC, software, and systems teams.

You’ll interface with customers and subcontractors, while driving trade studies and design reviews.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a related technical field; Master’s preferred.
• 8+ years in modem design or system architecture, integration and testing.
• Expertise in digital modem timing recovery, frequency acquisition, AGC, and FEC.
• Working knowledge of modern digital comms systems, DSP, and modem design.
• Knowledge of Ethernet, optical transport networking, framing, and data formatting standards.
• Experience modeling with MATLAB, Python, C or C++.
• Experience implementing modem designs in FPGA/ASIC.
• Ability to lead multidisciplinary technical teams and communicate with customers.
• US Citizenship and ability to obtain TS clearance.
• Willingness to travel up to 10%.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain end-to-end modem and communications system architectures.
• Manage system and subsystem requirements with decomposition, allocation and traceability.
• Lead trade studies involving waveform design and implementation approaches.
• Provide technical leadership across FPGA, ASIC, hardware, software, and systems teams.
• Coordinate internal and subcontractor modem development activities.
• Interface with customers and support technical reviews.
• Lead system integration, verification and validation activities.
• Identify and manage technical risks and performance margins.
• Support major design reviews and proposal activities.
• Support proposal development with detailed Basis of Estimates and cadence.

Skills

Modem design

System architecture

DSP

MATLAB

Python

C/C++

FPGA

ASIC

Team leadership

Customer communication

Problem solving

Security clearance

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Physics

Master’s degree preferred

Tools

MATLAB

Python

C/C++

FPGA

ASIC

Job description

Viasat is seeking a senior systems architect to define, architect, and lead the development of advanced high-speed modem solutions for space, optical, and terrestrial links. You will guide system-level architecture, ownership of requirements, and coordinate across hardware, FPGA, ASIC, software, and systems teams.

You’ll interface with customers and subcontractors, while driving trade studies and design reviews.