Senior Software Engineer - Embedded Network

Senior Software Engineer - Embedded Network

Locations: California, CA; Tampa, FL; Marlborough, MA

About the Team

The Viasat Government - Secure Network Systems (SNS) team is an interconnected series of small teams that allows for immediate visibility within the group, but maintains the resources support of a large company to solve technology needs. We also support security and cybersecurity needs across the company, in which physical products, tools, and initiatives can have impacts across world-wide usage.

You will join a software development team that designs, re-factors, and maintains code for existing and upcoming features across one or more product lines while meeting a stringent set of standards for security design and testing. As updated standards are released they are deployed across a variety of products and must take into account a variety of competing constraints.

Members will be expected to work as part of a team that works with and helps clarify requirements while continuously supporting development, integration, automation, and test of the final product through certification.

The Day-to-Day

• Cybersecurity software & systems engineering
• Be a part of an agile multidisciplinary development team
• Embedded systems software engineering
• Design, develop and integrate high speed scalable network software (protocols, device drivers, data plane)

What you'll need

• 10+ years' experience using C/C++ in embedded environments
• 10+ years' experience with network software design and development
• 7+ years' experience with Linux OS use, ideally for an embedded environment
• Proven experience with Linux network stack and writing Linux kernel modules
• Demonstrated experience with networking protocols (e.g. TCP/IP, IPSec, MACsec, TLS, etc.)
• Object-oriented software development experience
• Agile Scrum development experience
• Ability to plan, track and report on progress
• CI/CD software
• Bachelor's Degree or higher in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or equivalent experience
• US Government position. US Citizenship required
• Active DoD Secret Clearance
• Ability to travel up to 10%

What will help you on the job

• Experience with DPDK, network applications/services and acceleration
• Experience with Xilinx environment (Vivado, Petalinux)
• Familiarity with to bare metal embedded device drivers
• Experience with microprocessors and embedded processors (NIOS, ARM, RISC-V, etc.)
• Experience with multiple threads and real-time development
• Experience with RESTConf interface design and implementation
• Experience with Emulation Environments
• Experience with Python
• Familiarity with to standalone embedded applications
• Experience participating in multi-disciplinary teams

Salary Range

$161,000.00 - $255,000.00 / annually. For specific work locations within San Jose, the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, the base pay range for this role is $200,500.00- $300,500.00/ annually