Program Engineer

One team. Global challenges. Infinite opportunities. At Viasat, we're on a mission to deliver connections with the capacity to change the world. For more than 35 years, Viasat has helped shape how consumers, businesses, governments and militaries around the globe communicate. We're looking for people who think big, act fearlessly, and create an inclusive environment that drives positive impact to join our team.

As a Program Engineer, your responsibilities include building and implementation of end to end communications solutions to meet customer requirements.

This role involves working directly with customers. You will also work with product management and development to understand problems and build practical solutions using creativity, technical knowledge, and past experience. You will lead, design and specify system performance from requirements through implementation, test, and deployment. You will invent, demonstrate, validate, and adjust solutions by incorporating feedback from within and outside the organization. You will balance technical trade-offs to achieve difficult performance goals in demanding environmental conditions. You will contribute technical and programmatic content to proposal development in multiple sectors. Finally, you will maintain and grow a market presence and stay ahead of market trends and challenges in a dynamic environment within a fast-paced industry.

• Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field, or demonstrated equivalent experience
• 8+ years of related work experience in communications, networking, and security.
• Practical and theoretical knowledge of communications (RF, Digital, Optical), and networking (TCP/IP)
• Excellent communications skills, both written and oral
• Experience with RF Link Budgets
• Experience leading IRAD programs and crafting proposals
• Capable of engaging with internal and external Authorities about technical problems, trade-offs, and solutions
• Experience writing and support proposals, and/or technical publications including whitepapers
• Proficient with Microsoft Office tools suite
• U.S. Government position. U.S. Citizenship required
• Active Secret Clearance required
• Ability to travel up to 25%
• Excellent problem solving skills
• Organized approach to problem solving, ability to perform tasks optimally without mentorship within large teams, small teams, and individually.

This will be a hybrid role based in Carlsbad, CA, Reston, VA, or Germantown, MD.

• 8+ years of demonstrated ability with SATCOM equipment, including hands on experience
• Understanding of and hands-on background in industry technologies including, but not limited to: SATCOM theory, terrestrial communications infrastructure, TCP/IP Networking, digital communications, Routing and switching, QoS, ACM, FDMA, MF-TDMA, Linux, and cybersecurity
• Knowledge of, and experience with MIL-STD waveforms, and MIL-STD testing
• Hands-on operational and/or test experience with commonly used communications and test equipment (modems, terminals, spectrum analyzer, oscilloscope, antennas, routers)
• Experience with technical product development, project lifecycle, and product management (Requirements development, Achievement reviews, testing, documentation, customer acceptance, etc)

Viasat is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, seeking to create a welcoming and diverse environment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, marital status, genetics, age, or veteran status or any other applicable legally protected status or characteristic. If you would like to request an accommodation on the basis of disability for completing this on-line application, please click here.