Machine Learning Engineer- Predictive Modeling, Early Career - Viasat, Inc.

About us:

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.

What you'll do:

This Machine Learning engineer will play a vital role in shaping our future by designing, developing, and deploying innovative systems that improve our customers’ quality-of-experience and optimize the value we get from our satellite capacity.  This involves working with substantial amounts of data, building ML models and control systems, and deploying and maintaining production-quality models and software services in our network. 

 

You will be creating, developing, deploying, maintaining, and monitoring our production-quality ML models and implementing analytics that enable us to continuously improve.

The day-to-day:

• Develop data analysis pipelines and queries, working with large and complex data sets to analyze customer experience and optimize resource allocation efficiency
• Envision, design and build optimization systems using a combination of control systems, ML, and software design
• Aggregate, clean, and transform data from multiple systems to support decision-making services
• Collaborate with a diverse team of domain experts and ML and software developers, contributing to product planning, design, and implementation.
• Communicate and present complex data analyses and insights to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Deploy and maintain applications in production, ensuring high availability, scalability, and reliability.

Additional Information:

What you'll need:

Education Requirements:

• Completion of Bachelor's or higher between May 2023-September 2025 in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, and/ or related field

Additional Requirements:

• Experience using Python, including Pandas, and SQL
• Knowledge of optimization techniques and methods such as linear programming, simulated annealing, genetic algorithms, reinforcement learning
• Knowledge of classification techniques including regression, decision trees, random forests, Naïve Bayes, KNN, SVMs, gradient boost, and neural networks

What will help you on the job:

• Previous Viasat internship experience
• Knowledge of NumPy, JAX, Tensorflow, and similar tools for implementing highly scalable optimization models
• Deep understanding of how to deliver high quality video streaming over networks, including how to assess video quality from an ISP perspective, especially over geo-satellite networks
• Understanding of layer 2 and layer 3 networking

Salary range:$104,500.00 - $149,000.00 / annually.For specific work locations within San Jose, the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, the base pay range for this role is $130,000.00- $176,000.00/ annuallyEEO statement:

Viasat is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, seeking to create a welcoming and diverse environment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, marital status, genetics, age, or veteran status or any other applicable legally protected status or characteristic. If you would like to request an accommodation on the basis of disability for completing this on-line application, please click here.