Systems Integration and Test 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.

Viasat Global Enterprise and Mobility (GEM) is delivering high speed industry-leading, next-generation Ka-band satellite in-flight connectivity to leading Airline Companies! In this role, you will work closely with our lab and engineering teams to operate and maintain simulated commercial airline test environments. You will also be responsible for testing the user experience of an inflight connectivity and entertainment solution; including functional, operational, and performance requirements and user interfaces for customers. In partnership with the engineering and automation teams, you will craft, build, and perform functional, performance, and failure-mode tests in an agile, continuous integration environment. This role gives you the opportunity to test a sophisticated system from several personas, including Field Engineers, Operational Engineers, and End User Customers. To accomplish this, you will be interacting with a variety of teams that work together to build a complex and dynamic SATCOM networking system. This will require strong networking and debugging skills. In Summary, as a Systems Integration and Test Engineer, you will be involved in a variety of tasks including end-to-end systems test and verification that includes validation of multiple nodes and systems, design implementation and improvements, system/algorithm simulation, customer level testing and reporting/demo and much more.

You will work very closely with dev-ops engineers (software developers and system engineers), network engineers, and customer account managers. You will learn and understand new features, and how these new features work with the existing systems and/or add additional nodes to support the functions. You will also perform high level testing of the end-to-end systems along with these new features to validate that the solution is acceptable for customer delivery. You will also be involved with customer account managers for customer related supports before delivering the release to customer. You will witness firsthand how the underlying technology is implemented to create a sophisticated product. In this role you will use your technical knowledge and your creativity to design new test methodologies and improve existing procedures to verify system requirements. You will execute various tests, analyze data and document the results. Working with various systems and subsystems will result in knowledge of the entire system which is a valuable skill set that can open many career growth opportunities within Viasat in testing, systems engineering and software development.

* Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related discipline
* At least 1-3 years of experience within Engineering or related field
* Strong knowledge/experience with Networking protocols and configuration
* Strong knowledge/experience with Linux environment and common tools
* Experience with building Test plans and running tests on the multiple systems/units
* Proven Debugging and Troubleshooting skills
* Excellent written and verbal communications capabilities
* Ability to work effectively in large, or small teams, or individually
* Basic knowledge/experience with different Communications methods (RF, Digital, Optical)
* Understanding of the Software programming/scripting skills such as Perl, Python, C, C++ etc.
* Proficient with Microsoft Office tools suite
* Ability to travel up to 10%

* Experience with Jira/Jama, Wiki, Slack etc.
* Jenkins, Kubernetes, or Docker familiarity with container orchestration
* Familiar with Agile and Scrum team practices

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.