Role Overview

At Viasat, we are on a mission to deliver connections with the capacity to change the world. We are looking for engineers to support the critical infrastructure used for creating, testing, and delivering super-fast internet and streaming content to passengers on the world’s leading airlines via our mobility access servers (MAS).

Responsibilities

Software engineering as part of an agile development team.
Actively design and drive software architecture involving a Linux based operating system with custom support applications involving REST, HW interfaces, ARINC controllers, cellular device controllers, and other low level driver support.
Participate in the design, development and testing of software products we support.
Maintain and improve our current setup for continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) systems, with a focus on applying GitHub Actions, Artifactory, Vault, and GitHub.
Improve and implement testing, both virtual and on bare metal hardware meant to improve software quality by catching issues before they get to production.
Participate in code reviews of software with a view to deliver quality products in the short and long term.
Travel up to 10%.

Requirements

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or Computer Engineering.
5+ years’ experience in hands-on experience using C/C++/Rust/Go/Bash/Python in embedded environments, with a track record of success.
Hands-on experience with Object Oriented methodology and development.
Experience with developing and delivering software using CICD and DevOps practices.
Ability to champion modern software practices and uphold software quality standards in all phases of development.
Strong analytical skills and the ability to evaluate software architecture & design, including existing codebases.
Performing tests following a requirement based testing approach.

What will help you on the job:

Experience working with distributions and embedded optimized frameworks (e.g. AlmaLinux, OpenWRT, Yocto, Buildroot).
Deep Understanding of bootloader and Application Bring up process.
Experience orchestrating and optimizing resources (CPU, Memory, Disk etc) using tools such as but not limited to cgroups, MGLRU.