Lead Engineer - Cryptographic Design

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What you'll do Viasat is looking for a Project Engineer who is passionate about Cyber Security and is driven to join us in protecting and defending our connected world! The ideal candidate will have a background in Cyber Security with Software or Programmable Logic experience that has progressed into a leadership role after working as a hands-on developer for the first phase of your career.

The day-to-day Development and certification of the Modern Key Loader (MKL) as a Standalone End Cryptographic Unit (ECU) for protection and distribution of keys at TOP SECRET and Below level.

• Project engineer leads all aspects of the design, development, production, testing, and maintenance of complex systems or products.
  Works with multi-functional teams (Systems, Software, Hardware, Firmware, Mechanical, Security and Operations) to evaluate the design.
• Serve as "the" technical resource to interdisciplinary teams and management.
• Technically drive proposals, whitepapers, and customer support.
• Oversee and guide development, testing, system performance, environmental and system troubleshooting.
• Support planning the development activities.
• Perform technical design and code reviews.
• Mentor and coach junior engineers.
• Define security, performance, product requirements and work with validation lab supporting engineering validation/verification product testing.
• Drive execution of objectives including code reviews, test data analysis, investigate new target platforms, deadlines, schedule and team development.
• Understand hardware, software, firmware interactions, and collaborate with hardware, software, firmware, mechanical, test and security engineers.
• Champion requirements decomposition, allocation and integration on target with hardware, software, firmware mechanical, test and security engineers.
• Maintain and improve existing designs and source code to help attain the goal of a modular structure.
• Push augmentation of existing security architectures and creation of new ones to advance the state of the art through trade study analysis.
• Embrace the implementation of new tools and processes that extend design-development-test automation.
• Lead investigations into root cause analysis of hardware, software and firmware defects and resolve the defects.

What you'll need

• Bachelor's or Graduate's Degree in computer engineering, electrical engineering, or computer science with 15 years of hands-on design, development, integration and successful verification experience.
• Substantial and proven experience in High Assurance Architectures, design and Product lifecycles.
• Demonstrated problem-solving capabilities.
• Comfortable with debugging, unit testing, emulation, and logic analyzer.
• Fluent in writing protocols and firmware development practices and comfortable working with a variety of operating systems.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills at a technical and business user level.
• Experience supporting technical proposal efforts including requirements decomposition and verification techniques, architectural design, product definition and description as well as estimation.
• United States Citizenship required.
• The ability to obtain a DoD SECRET clearance.
• Ability to travel 10% (domestically or internationally).

What will help you on the job

• Previously served as a discipline lead, software lead, hardware lead, or test lead.
• Multi-task and demonstrate adaptability and flexibility in an ambiguous environment.
• Experience with C, FPGA, C#, SOC, NAND FLASH, Flash, and Python software and systems.

Salary range

$155,500.00 - $221,500.00 / 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 $188,500.00- $255,500.00/ 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
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