Systems Design Engineer - Government

About the role

Viasat’s Government business is poised for significant growth in the coming years, bringing critical connectivity solutions to war fighters across the battle space. Our solutions serve user groups and market segments across all services as well as within the intelligence and international government communities.

The System Design Engineer role involves collaborating with Product Management, engineering leads, and customers to break down high-level product requirements into detailed system and subsystem design solutions. You will work with engineering development teams to iterate on system design solutions over the product lifecycle, ensuring we consistently meet customer needs in a constantly evolving market. This requires an affinity for thinking about users, use cases, and a technical understanding of the underlying infrastructure (data, backend services, cloud architectures, SATCOM systems, and networking) required to support the product.

Responsibilities

• Generate and manage system requirements
• Define system-level architecture and make detailed system design decisions
• Collaborate with engineering teams to ensure system design and architecture meet customer needs while allowing flexibility for implementation teams
• Be responsible for hardware and software product and platform success from early definition through the entire product lifecycle, including maturity
• Work with large systems of systems, maintaining consistent standards to ensure intersystem compatibility and ease of future scaling
• Facilitate discussions with engineering and product management teams on design tradeoffs

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in systems engineering design and requirements management, preferably related to data platforms, cloud-based application development, satellite communications, or networking
• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering or equivalent experience
• Solid understanding of full-stack development frameworks
• Ability to understand and develop system design requirements including those related to performance, security, and functionality
• US Citizenship is required (this is a US Government role)
• Must be able to obtain a United States Secret Clearance
• Ability to travel as-needed, up to 10%

Skills

• Understanding of agile software development processes
• Some understanding of DoW CONOPs, users, and operating environments
• Familiarity with data science, data processing, or AI/ML
• Familiarity with requirements management tools such as Jama
• Familiarity with MBSE design process and tools such as Cameo

Pay

Salary range $120,500.00 - $190,000.00 annually. For specific work locations within San Jose, the San Francisco Bay area, and the New York City metropolitan area, the base pay range for this role is $149,500.00 - $224,500.00 annually.

Base pay may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Additional cash or stock incentives may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to a range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the position offered.

Benefits

Learn more about Viasat’s comprehensive benefit offerings that are focused on your holistic health and wellness at https://careers.viasat.com/benefits.