Lead Systems Engineer – Communication & Sensing Systems

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Salary

$180K-$285K From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

401(k) match

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Market context

U.S. role benchmark (BLS OEWS)

$116,543 U.S. median for this role

Projected growth (BLS Employment Projections)

+9.8% - Much faster than average

100% above the BLS role benchmark for software engineering aggregate.

Matched to SOC 15-1252 - Software Engineering aggregate by role bucket.

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, OEWS, May 2024 and Employment Projections, 2024-2034.

Role

Role function

Engineering From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

Seniority

Senior From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

Schedule

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Company

Company stage

Public-company From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

Equity

Offered Verified - SEC 10-K source checked Jun 20, 2026

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About this role

Lead Systems Engineer – Communication & Sensing Systems Carlsbad, California About us One team. Global challenges. Infinite opportunities. At Viasat, we're on a mission to deliver connections with the capacity to change the world. For more than 35 years, Viasat has helped shape how consumers, businesses, governments and militaries around the globe communicate. We're looking for people who think big, act fearlessly, and create an inclusive environment that drives positive impact to join our team. What you'll do As a Lead Systems Engineer - Communications and Sensing Systems within the Viasat Government Space and Emerging Technologies group, you will lead the system architecture for a sophisticated communication and sensing system; drive end‑to‑end technical definition from mission needs through delivery, lead the flow-down and development of requirements to ensure mission objectives, performance goals, and system constraints are correctly captured, allocated, and maintained. The day-to-day In this role, you'll: Guide CONOPS development, subsystem architecture decisions, interface definitions, calibration strategies and system‑level performance modeling, and serve as the technical authority for hardware, firmware, software, algorithms, networking, and integration & test teams Drive cross‑program consistency to ensure system-level traceability, verification strategy and integration readiness across engineering disciplines Support proposal architecture trades, cost/schedule planning and technical communication with internal stakeholders and government customers while managing the system technical baseline, including requirements, interfaces, architecture decisions, and configuration control Support system integration by providing guidance on expected behaviors, root‑cause analysis and performance optimization in addition to delivering high-quality engineering documentation, technical briefs, and formal design review materials

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