Lead Systems Architect, High-Speed Modems on site

Join our team defining and leading the development of advanced high speed communications modem solutions for space, optical and terrestrial communications applications. You will own system level architecture, requirements and technical leadership across multidisciplinary development teams, providing technical direction to hardware, FPGA, ASIC, software and systems engineering while serving as a primary technical interface to customers and subcontractors.

This is an onsite role based in Tempe, AZ.

What You Will Do

• Define and maintain end to end modem and communications system architectures

• Manage system and subsystem requirements, including decomposition, allocation and traceability

• Lead trade studies involving waveform design and implementation approaches

• Provide technical leadership across FPGA, ASIC, hardware, software and systems engineering teams

• Coordinate internal and subcontractor modem development activities

• Interface directly with customers and support technical reviews

• Lead system integration, verification and validation activities

• Identify and manage technical risks and performance margins

• Support major design reviews and proposal activities

• Support proposal development by constructing detailed Basis of Estimates and maintaining program execution cadence across key milestones

Required Qualifications

• 10+ years developing complex algorithms for modem design, or system architecture definition, design, integration and testing

• Expertise in digital modem timing recovery, frequency acquisition and recovery, AGC, carrier and phase recovery, and FEC

• Working knowledge of modern digital communications systems, DSP and modem design

• Knowledge of Ethernet, optical transport networking, framing and data formatting standards

• Modeling modem algorithms using MATLAB, Python, C or C++

• Implementing or guiding modem implementations in FPGA and/or ASIC technologies

• Ability to lead multidisciplinary technical teams

• Strong customer facing communication skills

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Physics or a related technical field. Master's preferred

• U.S. Government position. U.S. Citizenship required

• Ability to travel up to 10%

Preferred Qualifications

• Active U.S. security clearance

• Designing satellite, optical or terrestrial communications systems

• Leading modem architecture and technical teams

• Free space optical communications

• 100G or faster communications ASIC

• Space systems and payload work

• Familiarity with CCSDS, DVB-S2X, Ethernet and optical networking protocols

• MBSE and requirements based verification