Lead Engineer - Cryptographic Design
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About The Position
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.
