Advanced Electronics HW-PL-Specialty Division Lead - VGOV

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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.

We are seeking an accomplished engineering leader to join the VGOV Advanced Electronics organization. In this role, you will be a working leader
—both guiding a multidisciplinary division of Hardware/Digital, Programmable Logic (PL), and Specialty Engineers and directly contributing your technical expertise to projects, proposals, and critical business initiatives.

You will ensure engineering resources are aligned to evolving VGOV development needs while making balanced decisions that are good for the engineers, good for product and program teams, good for the VGOV business, and good for Viasat as a whole. Your deep technical background will position you as a trusted resource and mentor for engineers across the division.

You will ensure that engineering resources, skill sets, and priorities remain aligned with evolving VGOV development needs, making balanced and thoughtful decisions that serve engineers, product and program teams, the VGOV business, and Viasat as a whole. Your deep engineering background will position you as a trusted resource and mentor for engineers across the division.

Beyond leading the organization, you will play an active, hand‑on role in directly supporting programs and business development efforts—providing technical knowledge, shaping solutions, driving engineering execution, and helping secure future opportunities.

These engineers design digital circuitry ranging from discrete logic and pulse‑width modulators to microprocessors, microcontrollers, A/D and D/A converters, memory subsystems, FPGAs, and high‑speed interfaces—typically integrated onto printed circuit boards.

PL engineers implement complex digital functions within FPGAs using HDL languages such as Verilog and VHDL. Their work spans synchronous/asynchronous interfaces, signal processing, cryptography, modems, and more.

You will oversee engineers with deep specialization in areas critical to high‑reliability systems:

• Power & Analog Engineering
  —designing analog circuitry, power converters, and modular power supplies.
• Design Verification Engineering
  —developing tools and methodologies to simulate, detect, and mitigate design issues in FPGAs and ASICs, ensuring compliance to specifications.
• Digital Signal Processing (DSP) Engineering
  —creating signal‑processing algorithms for communications and radar, and partnering with PL engineers to implement them on FPGAs.
• Design Implementation (Backend) Engineering
  —converting RTL and higher‑level functional descriptions into physically realizable integrated circuits through full backend design flows.
• Radiation Engineering
  —analyzing and testing susceptibility of components and systems to space radiation effects (SEUs, TID, etc.).
• Parts, Materials & Process (PMP) Engineering
  —defining processes for part selection, screening, testing, failure analysis, and long‑term parts management.
• PCB Fabrication Engineering
  —providing fabrication expertise and failure analysis, influencing PCB stack‑ups, materials, and layout considerations.

• Contribute to the ongoing evolution of the VGOV Development Engineering organization as VGOV and Viasat grow and technology needs shift.

• Lead a geographically dispersed team of world‑class engineers and managers.
• Ensure the organization anticipates, develops, and maintains the capabilities required for both current commitments and future development roadmaps.

• Meet HWPLSpecialty staffing needs efficiently and strategically.
• Identify strong internal candidates and drive external recruiting efforts to build a high‑caliber…