Production Test Engineering, Systems 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 is seeking a new Systems Test Engineer! Viasat's fast paced Product Test Engineering team crafts test solutions for vertically integrated products and services. Our solutions vary across RF and microwave technologies, power and digital circuitry, peripheral interfaces such as GPS, Bluetooth, and WiFi, and software, firmware, and certificate configuration management. Projects support lab design verification, integration, and characterization and factory production tests. We support everything from chips to satellites!

• Gain a deep understanding of our products needing tests, including specifications, parts, and functions.
• Collaborate with product design teams and establish relationships to influence product, hardware, and software designs that support robust and efficient testing solutions.
• Work with the design team to define test requirements and methodologies that resolve the level of testing required for the product during production and depot phases of the product life cycle.
• Guide the effort to develop and build custom test hardware and automation to meet defined production test plans and requirements using company and industry standards.
• Shepherd test racks and systems from concept to implementation, transition systems from R&D to full-rate production, and train with partners across the globe.
• Be the interface between product engineering and test system development teams, using feedback to continuously refine processes that develop, sustain and improve test systems.
• Use problem solving and evaluate engineering trade-offs when planning for and adapting to uncertainty and project risks and opportunities.
• Present creative ideas, informative status updates, thoughtful trade-offs, constructive reviews, and improved process implementations to program management and leadership.

• 8 or more years of proven experience developing testable products, supporting them across the product lifecycle, and working with new development and sustainment of manual to fully automated product test systems in a production environment.
• Bachelor of Science or equivalent experience in Electrical Engineering, Physics, Computer Engineering, RF Engineering, or related field.
• Experience with RF systems design and evaluation.
• Solid understanding of both the technical and process aspects of product design and able to evaluate products using documents describing their design and function.
• Domain expert influencing teams to use design-for-test (DFT) strategies, methods, and tools for validation of product function, performance, and reliability.
• Background in crafting and using tools that guide system development. Tools include test requirements, test plans, test cases and methodologies, and test documentation for manufacturing.
• Desire to improve technical design documentation such as specifications, schematics, and wire lists through redlining and collaboration with designers.
• Ability to view and quickly comprehend industry standard computer languages to support collaboration with software automation engineers.
• Ready to use a variety of lab equipment like oscilloscopes, spectrum analyzers, network analyzers, power supplies, and boundary scan to evaluate and help fix systems.
• Up to 10% travel.
• US citizenship required.

• Experience with debugging and fixing Linux-based products.
• Testing satellite communication products using industry test standards and methods.
• Use of embedded code in products as a tool to support test system environments.
• Familiarity with LabVIEW, TestStand, and Object-Oriented Programming.
• Experience with networking, OSI model, and L2/L3 technologies like MAC and TCP/IP.
• Working with large-volume data analysis and interpretation: Pandas, SQL, Grafana or similar.

This role is considered a Safety-Sensitive position and requires participation in Viasat's Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Program. This includes successful completion of any program requirements including a pre-employment drug screening.

Viasat is committed to providing and maintaining reliable and safe service to our customers and a safe and productive work environment for all employees. Additionally, Viasat is committed to complying with the regulations set forth by the Department of Transportation (DOT) and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). Accordingly, the scope of our commitment to ensure a drug-free work environment is broadened by specific drug and alcohol testing regulations and requirements.

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.