Viasat is looking for a Project Engineer who is passionate about Security and is driven to join us in protecting and defending our connected world! The ideal candidate will have a background in Government Cryptographic Systems/Secure Communications with Hardware, Software, Test or Programmable Logic design experience that has progressed into a leadership role after working as a hands-on developer for the first phase of your career. The day-to-day Development and certification of compact crypto solutions for use at the tactical edge that protect for protection of data and distribution of keys at SECRET and Below level. Project engineer leads all aspects of the design, development, production, test, and sustaining of complex systems or products. Works with multi-functional teams (Systems, Software, Hardware, Firmware, Mechanical, Security, Quality and Operations) to evaluate the design. Serve as 'the' technical resource to interdisciplinary teams and management. Technically drive proposals, whitepapers, and customer support. Oversee and guide development, testing, system performance, environmental and system troubleshooting. Support planning the development activities. Perform technical design and reviews. Mentor and coach mid-career engineers. Define security, performance, product requirements and work with validation lab supporting engineering validation/verification product testing. Drive execution of objectives including schedule, milestones, and technical performance. Lead research and development of new technologies, platforms, and tools. Understand hardware, software, firmware interactions, and collaborate with hardware, software, firmware, mechanical, test and security engineers. Champion requirements decomposition, allocation and integration on target with hardware, software, firmware mechanical, test and security engineers. Maintain and improve existing designs and source code to help attain the goal of a modular structure. Push augmentation of existing security architectures and creation of new ones to advance the state of the art through trade study analysis. Embrace the implementation of new tools and processes that extend design-development-test automation. Lead investigations into root cause analysis of hardware, software and firmware defects and resolve the defects.