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About the Role

As an experienced individual contributor within P&CSE, you will deliver complex hands-on technical work across the satellite ground station engineering lifecycle with a high degree of autonomy. This is a purely technical role with no people management responsibilities.

Responsibilities

Perform detailed RF system design and analysis, including link budgets, G/T, EIRP, linearity, and antenna system characterization across L/S/C/Ku/Ka/Q/V bands.
Plan, execute, and document FAT, SAT, and IOT test campaigns for new and upgraded earth station RF systems.
Contribute to DiFi (VITA 49) digitizer chain design, validation, and interoperability testing.
Contribute to RFoIP encapsulation, QoS, PTP synchronisation, and SDR modem integration activities.
Develop and maintain CI/CD pipeline stages, IaC modules (Ansible/Terraform), and automated RF test scripts.
Deploy and support containerized RF signal processing workloads on AWS EKS or GCP GKE.
Contribute to cloud RF data pipelines using AWS Kinesis / GCP Pub/Sub and post-pass analysis via Athena / BigQuery.
Apply AI/ML tools to engineering workflows, including LLMs for documentation, anomaly detection on RF telemetry, and AI-assisted simulation.
Provide third-line RF support to Operations and NOC, including on-call rota participation.
Produce and maintain engineering documentation (ICDs, test plans, acceptance reports) to P&CSE quality standards.
Travel to earth station sites and supplier facilities as required by programme activities.

Requirements

8-12 years ground station system design, integration, and test experience.
Proven hands-on RF expertise across multiple frequency bands with strong link budget and test skills.
Working knowledge of DiFi/VITA 49, RFoIP, DevOps CI/CD, AWS/GCP, and AI engineering tools.
Seeking a technical individual contributor role with no people management responsibility.
Willing and able to fulfill the on-call rota requirement.
Willing and able to travel internationally.

Skills

RF system design
Link budgets
G/T
EIRP
Linearity
Antenna system characterisation
L/S/C/Ku/Ka/Q/V bands
FAT
SAT
IOT testing
DiFi (VITA 49)
RFoIP
CI/CD
IaC modules (Ansible/Terraform)
Automated RF test scripts
AWS EKS
GCP GKE
AWS Kinesis
GCP Pub/Sub
Athena
BigQuery
AI/ML tools
LLMs
Anomaly detection
AI-assisted simulation
Third-line RF support
Engineering documentation

Location

London

Work Type

Full-time
Onsite

Experience Level

Senior

Education Level

Degree in Electrical/Electronic Engineering or Telecommunications

About the Company

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.

Equal Opportunity

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.
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