Distinguished Signal Processing Engineer

Location

Cambridge, MA | United States

Job description

Job Title: Senior Signal Processing Engineer

Location: Cambridge, MA

Job Type: Full Time

Salary: $210k to $230k plus 10% and top Benefits

Responsibilities:

As a Senior Signal Processing Engineer, you will be responsible for leading cutting-edge research and development efforts in the field of signal processing for advanced communication and defense systems. Your primary responsibilities will include:

• Conducting literature surveys of state-of-the-art receiver algorithms to identify promising candidates.
• Performing highly-competent, mission-relevant trade studies using MATLAB and other tools.
• Reporting recommendations to sponsors and collaborators.
• Writing design specifications and collaborating with software (SW) and hardware description language (HDL) teams to realize deliverable products.
• Periodically evaluating field performance of products and recommending continuous improvements.
• Developing new waveforms, electronic attack, and electronic protection systems across the full life cycle of fielded products.
• Presenting results and recommendations at forums such as MILCOM and intra-government conferences.
• Advising and mentoring signal processing graduate students through the scholars program.
• Conceiving new ideas and concepts, and presenting them in the form of task orders, proposals, patents, and white papers.

Required Qualifications:

• PhD in Electrical Engineering with 10+ years of experience.
• Background in communications and information theory, adaptive signal processing and recursive estimation, detection and estimation theory, and array processing.

Note: Other education/experience will be considered for well-qualified applicants.

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience in electromagnetics, RF design, and acoustics.
• Knowledge of systems courses such as SONAR and RADAR.
• Interest in understanding a range of computing architectures (GPP, GPU, FPGA, Full Custom ASICs) and leading in selecting the appropriate tools.
• Proficiency in prototyping, simulating, and testing systems in MATLAB.

Security Requirement:

Applicants are expected to acquire and maintain a top-secret clearance.

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