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2025 Radar Signal Processing Engineer
| Company | The Aerospace Coporation |
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| Location | El Segundo, CA, USA |
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| Salary | $95000 – $130000 |
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| Type | Full-Time |
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| Degrees | Master’s, PhD |
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| Experience Level | Entry Level/New Grad |
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Requirements
- Master’s or Ph.D. degree from an accredited college/university program in mathematics, physics or electrical engineering (pursuing or conferred within last 12 months)
- 0-1 year of industry work experience
- Familiarity with two or more of the following problems in languages IDL, MATLAB, C/C++, and Python
- Ability to travel domestically occasionally
- Strong written and oral communication skills
- Demonstrate flexibility and ability to adapt to changing organizational need
- Interpersonal skills to coordinate efforts and work with other internal and external organizations
- This position requires ability to obtain and maintain a security clearance, which is issued by the U.S. government. U.S. citizenship is required to obtain a security clearance.
Responsibilities
- Providing signal processing and system architecting expertise in the areas of SAR/MTI system modeling and target tracking; work may involve system level analysis such as signal propagation, RF system performance, requirements development and review
- Developing unique solutions and efficient implementations of signal processing algorithms for challenging mission applications
- Using common industry signal processing tools such as IDL, MATLAB, Python or C++ to analyze data and generate algorithms
- Providing oversight, guidance and technical advice on customer projects involving digital signal processing and other real-time computationally-intensive problems
- Verify contractor designs, approaches and overall system performance
- Ability to work with minimal management oversight; ability to coordinate, organize and lead the work of other Aerospace staff
- Generating periodic written reports and presentations to customer and Aerospace management
- Communicating with a broad range of customers, technologists, program managers, and senior leadership
- Travel as necessary to support customer needs
Preferred Qualifications
- Ph.D. degree in mathematics, physics or electrical engineering
- Exposure to software development including with parallel programming (e.g. Spark, CUDA, MPI)
- Familiarity with various tracking algorithms including radar-based tracking
- Experience or exposure to radar performance modeling and analysis of radar signals processing, encompassing use cases in SAR imaging, MTI and/or resiliency techniques
- Current Top-Secret clearance with SCI access
