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.
We develop commercial mobility software which provides satellite internet in-flight connectivity to several major airlines in the US and abroad. We engineer new software features to harden our software from security attacks. We are working to provide high-capacity global satellite broadband coverage with our next generation satellites. This opportunity will expose you to substantial, high-visibility projects which drive industry-leading software solutions! Together, we implement new wireless waveforms and protocols to deliver high-performance audio and video streaming at scale for commercial airlines and business jets.
Job Responsibilities
You will work with a technically strong team on important challenges for Viasat. You will be the Product Owner of one or more various satellite mobile terminals. Your focus over time will change as the terminal team adds new products and business priorities evolve. Additional responsibilities include but are not limited to:
- Work out feature requests from other groups, internal customers, and partners
- Lead the product roadmap discussion by including stakeholders and experts from various teams
- Work regularly with the Sr Mobile Terminals Software Product Owner
- Develop the mobile terminal roadmap and prioritize the backlog
- Work with the modem software team to communicate priorities and provide technical guidance as well as the Mobility System Engineers and Mobility Integration and System Test team on new software releases
- Work with security leads to coordinate on security priorities, roadmaps, and best practices
- Work with mobile terminals internal customers and stakeholders to learn and assess business priorities
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in software development, systems engineering, or integration and test
- 2+ years of experience in project engineering, resource management, budget management, and product delivery
- Experience with embedded systems, wireless networks, and networking technology and products
- Strong team building, collaboration, relationship building skills, and written & verbal communication skills
- Ability to communicate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders across multiple business units
- Ability to learn new technologies and comfortable with technical details
- Ability to have credible conversations with engineers about technical implementations and product issues
- Bachelor’s in STEM
- US Citizenship Required
Preferences
- Experience with embedded systems, computing platforms, and programming languages
- Experience with logging, monitoring, security logging, and visualization systems
- Experience with agile methodologies, tools, and modern software development environments
- Experience with the complete product life cycle in a production services environment, including design, implementation, load, and scale testing, deployment, and maintenance
- Knowledge of software automation and DevOps (CI/CD pipelines, tools, and methods)
- Familiarity with various programming languages such as Python, Go, Ruby, Java, and C
- Software security background
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