Principal Product System Architect

Who we are:

Globalstar pioneered personal safety by introducing its SPOT Satellite GPS Messenger in 2007. Today, leveraging its low-earth orbit (LEO) satellite constellation, Globalstar reliably connects and protects assets, transmits key operational data, and saves lives – from any location – for consumers, industrial companies and government agencies in over 120 countries. With a portfolio that includes SPOT GPS messengers, next-generation IoT products and modems, and cloud-based telematics solutions, Globalstar’s cost effective satellite-powered innovations give users visibility and intelligence for improving safety and operational efficiencies.

What we offer:

• Work/Life Balance:  Paid Time Off, Paid Holidays
• Financial Benefits:  401(k) Plan with Company Match, Employee Stock Purchase Program, Voluntary and Company Paid Group Life Insurance, Short- and Long-Term Disability Insurance, Medical FSA, Dependent Care, Competitive Salaries
• Health & Wellness:  Health Insurance, Dental Insurance, Vision Insurance, Employee Assistance Program, Comprehensive and Interactive Wellness Program

Job Summary: 

We are currently seeking a Principal Product System Architect who researches, specifies, architects, designs, validates, and verifies consumer and industrial satellite communications products.

Supervisory Responsibilities:

• None

Duties/Responsibilities:

• Act as the primary technical architect of Globalstar’s products, across product lines and engineering disciplines
• Work alongside product managers to define product concept of operations, architecture, product requirements, and system requirements
• Produce clear and concise documentation of product architecture and system design, allowing other engineering disciplines to design subsystems and components that will meet the overall product requirements
• Work with and lead a team to accomplish integration of hardware and software components, verification, and validation of requirements and specifications
• Identify, analyze, and present solutions for key technical issues and tradeoffs through the product design, integration, and verification stages
• Work alongside other systems engineers to ensure product meets RF and protocol performance targets, and does not cause network issues

Skills and Competencies:

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to interact clearly and concisely with all technical departments and levels of management
• Expert-level ability in gathering, collating, analyzing, and presenting data to stakeholders to make decisions; must be able to identify and cut through swaths of data to present the key takeaways and tradeoffs
• Able to produce clear and concise documents governing all aspects of a product, from architecture and block diagrams to key UML call flows, to allow other engineers to design subsystems and components that meet the Architect’s vision
• RF and link budget analysis, at component level to product and system level
• Able to review designs from functional teams, ranging from schematic and layout in Altium to Solidworks CAD to UML diagrams
• Skilled working with remote teams and design teams at other companies, such as ODMs and JDMs

Education, Experience, and Licenses/Certifications:

• Bachelor’s degree (BS) from four-year college or university in Systems Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related field; Master’s strongly preferred
• 7 years industry experience; 10 years strongly preferred
• Experience as a product architect, system architect, system engineer, or system integration engineer; experience as a technical lead is required
• Expert-level experience in at least one wireless/radio technology from among 5G, 4G, 802.11ad/ay, WiMAX, or proprietary satellite systems
• Cradle-to-grave product development experience; must have worked with product managers to define initial product and system requirements, through to integration, verification, and validation
• Experience with hardware architecture and integration; strongly prefer experience with at least one of FPGAs or SoCs from Xilinx/AMD, Altera/Intel, Qualcomm, NXP, MediaTek
• Familiarity with test equipment such as spectrum analyzers, network analyzers, signal generators, DMMs, oscilloscopes, protocol testers, channel emulators

Physical Requirements:

• If not located local to Globalstar’s office in Covington, Louisiana, willingness and ability to travel to Covington as needed (estimated at 25%)
• Prolonged periods sitting at a desk and working on a computer
• Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of this job

Marginal Functions:

A review of this job posting may have omitted some of the marginal functions of the position that are incidental to the performance of the job duties and responsibilities.  This job posting, in no way, states or implies that these are the only duties and/or responsibilities to be performed by the employee in this position.  The employee in this position will be required to follow any other job-related instructions and to perform any other job-related duties requested by his/her supervisor.

Globalstar is an Equal Opportunity Employer.  All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.