Principal Product System Architect

Full-time - Senior

Hybrid - Covington, LA

Telecommunications

About the position

We are currently seeking a Principal Product System Architect who researches, specifies, architects, designs, validates, and verifies consumer and industrial satellite communications products.

Responsibilities

• Act as the primary technical architect of Globalstar's products, across product lines and engineering disciplines
• Work alongside product managers to define product concept of operations, architecture, product requirements, and system requirements
• Produce clear and concise documentation of product architecture and system design, allowing other engineering disciplines to design subsystems and components that will meet the overall product requirements
• Work with and lead a team to accomplish integration of hardware and software components, verification, and validation of requirements and specifications
• Identify, analyze, and present solutions for key technical issues and tradeoffs through the product design, integration, and verification stages
• Work alongside other systems engineers to ensure product meets RF and protocol performance targets, and does not cause network issues

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree (BS) from four-year college or university in Systems Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related field; Master's strongly preferred
• 7 years industry experience; 10+ years strongly preferred
• Experience as a product architect, system architect, system engineer, or system integration engineer; experience as a technical lead is required
• Expert-level experience in at least one wireless/radio technology from among 5G, 4G, 802.11ad/ay, WiMAX, or proprietary satellite systems
• Cradle-to-grave product development experience; must have worked with product managers to define initial product and system requirements, through to integration, verification, and validation
• Experience with hardware architecture and integration; strongly prefer experience with at least one of FPGAs or SoCs from Xilinx/AMD, Altera/Intel, Qualcomm, NXP, MediaTek
• Familiarity with test equipment such as spectrum analyzers, network analyzers, signal generators, DMMs, oscilloscopes, protocol testers, channel emulators

Benefits

• Paid Time Off
• Paid Holidays
• 401(k) Plan with Company Match
• Employee Stock Purchase Program
• Voluntary and Company Paid Group Life Insurance
• Short- and Long-Term Disability Insurance
• Medical FSA
• Dependent Care
• Competitive Salaries
• Health Insurance
• Dental Insurance
• Vision Insurance
• Employee Assistance Program
• Comprehensive and Interactive Wellness Program