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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.
What You'll Do
In this role, you will work closely with a cross-functional engineering team to develop our next-generation government modem, with a strong emphasis on testing, validation, and deployment support. You’ll be responsible for creating detailed test documentation; including test plans, procedures, and test cases—tailored to both customer requirements and industry standards. Leveraging your technical background, you will guide the development of custom test hardware and automation solutions, ensuring smooth integration and deployment across the full product lifecycle from lab testing and design verification to full-rate production. Your expertise in crafting test strategies and documentation will directly contribute to system development and product quality. You’ll also evaluate technical designs and use lab equipment such as oscilloscopes, power supplies, and boundary scan tools to troubleshoot and optimize performance.
The day-to-day
$101,000.00 - $159,500.00 / annually. For specific work locations within San Jose, the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, the base pay range for this role is $125,500.00- $188,500.00/ annually
At Viasat, we consider many factors when it comes to compensation, including the scope of the position as well as your background and experience. 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. Learn more about Viasat’s comprehensive benefit offerings that are focused on your holistic health and wellness at https://careers.viasat.com/benefits.
EEO Statement
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.
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- Remote (excluding ND, VT, DE, or RI), United States
- Engineering
- Regular
- None
- US Citizenship
- Roger Fastring
- Chelsea Cantoran
- 4558
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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.
What You'll Do
In this role, you will work closely with a cross-functional engineering team to develop our next-generation government modem, with a strong emphasis on testing, validation, and deployment support. You’ll be responsible for creating detailed test documentation; including test plans, procedures, and test cases—tailored to both customer requirements and industry standards. Leveraging your technical background, you will guide the development of custom test hardware and automation solutions, ensuring smooth integration and deployment across the full product lifecycle from lab testing and design verification to full-rate production. Your expertise in crafting test strategies and documentation will directly contribute to system development and product quality. You’ll also evaluate technical designs and use lab equipment such as oscilloscopes, power supplies, and boundary scan tools to troubleshoot and optimize performance.
The day-to-day
- Prepare Test Plans, Procedures, and customer needs to guide the effort to develop and build custom test hardware and automation using company and industry standards.
- Shepherd test system deployment from hardware/software integration, to use in design verification, to full-rate production.
- Background in crafting test requirements, test plans, test cases and methodologies, and test documentation for manufacturing that guide system development.
- Solid understanding of both the technical and process aspects of product design and able to evaluate products using documents describing their design and function.
- Ready to use a variety of lab equipment like oscilloscopes, power supplies, and boundary scan to evaluate and help fix systems.
- 5 years experience in an engineering and testing environment
- US citizenship required.
- Up to 10% travel.
- Experience with debugging and fixing Linux-based products.
- Experience with OpenAMIP and OpenBMIP.
- Experience with networking, OSI model, and L2/L3 technologies like MAC and TCP/IP, UDP, etc.
- Experience with a programming or scripting language (Python, C/C , Java or other)
- Familiar with using requirements traceability tools (DOORS, JAMA, etc.)
$101,000.00 - $159,500.00 / annually. For specific work locations within San Jose, the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, the base pay range for this role is $125,500.00- $188,500.00/ annually
At Viasat, we consider many factors when it comes to compensation, including the scope of the position as well as your background and experience. 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. Learn more about Viasat’s comprehensive benefit offerings that are focused on your holistic health and wellness at https://careers.viasat.com/benefits.
EEO Statement
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.
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Salary : $101,000 - $188,500