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.