Join our high speed communications modem team as its lead systems architect. You will define and own the end to end modem architecture for space, optical and terrestrial systems, provide technical direction across hardware, FPGA, ASIC, software and systems engineering, and serve as the primary technical interface to customers and subcontractors.
What You Will Do
• Define and maintain end to end modem and communications system architectures
• Manage system and subsystem requirements, including decomposition, allocation and traceability
• Lead trade studies covering waveform design and implementation approaches
• Provide technical leadership across FPGA, ASIC, hardware, software and systems engineering teams
• Coordinate internal and subcontractor modem development activities
• Interface directly with customers and support technical reviews
• Lead system integration, verification and validation
• Identify and manage technical risks and performance margins
• Support major design reviews and proposal activities
• Build detailed Basis of Estimates (BOEs) and maintain program execution cadence across key milestones
Required Qualifications
• 10+ years developing complex algorithms for modem design, or in system architecture definition, design, integration and testing
• Digital modem timing recovery, frequency acquisition and recovery, AGC, carrier and phase recovery, and FEC
• Modern digital communications systems, DSP and modem design
• Ethernet, optical transport networking, framing and data formatting standards
• Modeling modem algorithms in MATLAB, Python, C or C++
• Implementing or guiding modem implementations in FPGA and/or ASIC technologies
• Leading multidisciplinary technical teams
• Strong customer facing communication skills
• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Physics or a related technical field (Master's preferred)
• US Citizenship
• Ability to travel up to 10%
• Tempe, AZ
Preferred Qualifications
• Active US security clearance
• Designing satellite, optical or terrestrial communications systems
• Leading modem architecture and technical teams
• Free space optical communications
• 100G+ communications ASIC
• Space systems and payloads
• CCSDS, DVB-S2X, Ethernet and optical networking protocols
• MBSE and requirements based verification