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Tempe, AZ
Top Secret/SCI Polygraph Unspecified
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Job Description
Mount Indie is seeking a senior-level Systems Architect to provide technical leadership for next-generation high-speed modem solutions supporting space-based optical communications. This individual will act as a technical lead across multiple engineering disciplines, driving modem architecture, requirements development, system performance, and customer engagement.
The ideal candidate brings deep experience with high-speed modem design, FPGA development, digital signal processing, and system-level architecture. This is a highly visible leadership role without direct reports but requires influencing and coordinating firmware, software, and hardware engineering teams.
Key Responsibilities
Required Qualifications
Preferred Qualifications
The ideal candidate brings deep experience with high-speed modem design, FPGA development, digital signal processing, and system-level architecture. This is a highly visible leadership role without direct reports but requires influencing and coordinating firmware, software, and hardware engineering teams.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead architecture and development of high-speed modem solutions supporting optical communications and spaceflight applications.
- Translate customer requirements into technical solutions and assess feasibility and performance tradeoffs.
- Collaborate closely with Optical Systems Engineers and cross-functional engineering teams.
- Provide technical leadership across firmware, software, FPGA, and modem development efforts.
- Guide engineering teams on implementation priorities and technical execution.
- Support customer-facing technical discussions and requirements development activities.
- Participate in system modeling, simulation, and performance analysis.
Required Qualifications
- Extensive experience with high-speed modem architecture and design
- Strong FPGA development experience
- Experience with Verilog
- Digital Signal Processing (DSP) expertise
- Systems engineering and architecture experience
- Experience translating customer requirements into technical solutions
- Proven technical leadership experience
- Experience with MATLAB and/or Python modeling and simulation
Preferred Qualifications
- Optical communications experience
- Space or satellite communications experience
- High-speed ASIC experience
- Active Top Secret Clearance
- Experience supporting government or defense customers
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