2025 Space Communications Digital Signal Processing Engineer
| Company | The Aerospace Coporation |
|---|---|
| Location | Chantilly, VA, USA |
| Salary | $Not Provided – $Not Provided |
| Type | Full-Time |
| Degrees | Bachelor’s |
| Experience Level | Entry Level/New Grad |
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or related technical discipline, pursuing or conferred within 12 months from an accredited college or university
- 0-1 years of relevant experience
- Experience in a laboratory environment working with SDRs or FPGAs, and associated test equipment
- Work in developing and implementing DSP algorithms with real-world performance requirements on either CPU or FPGA-based platforms
- Willing to travel domestically up to 10% of time
- This position requires the ability to obtain and maintain a TS/SSBI security clearance, which is issued by the U.S. government. U.S. citizenship is required to obtain this level of security clearance
- Transcripts required.
Responsibilities
- Solving technical problems in the areas of communications, signals collection, data processing, and implementing in hardware
- Developing experiments and prototypes in our laboratory facilities that include extensive SDR hardware, FPGA development systems, and RF signals test and measurement equipment
- Supporting customer programs by performing research, analysis, development, and assessments of signal processing algorithm implementations on operational hardware
- Creating and testing prototypes for Digital Signal Processing (DSP) and Software Defined Radios (SDR) applications
- Supporting our DOD and Intelligence customers with primary support to the National Reconnaissance Office
- Using your technical abilities and insights to keep ongoing development programs successful and to influence future missions
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with a variety of popular SDR or FPGA tools such as GNUradio, Vivado, or ModelSim
- Experience working with experts in the fields of antenna systems, RF systems, SIGINT and/or SAR processing, communications systems and hardware prototyping
- Experience with Linux-based DSP systems that span across CPUs, FPGAs, GPUs, SDR platforms
- Strong background in scientific programming using languages such as C, C++, Fortran, Julia, or Python
- Experience providing deliverables and briefing management and customers on project progress
- Experience leading a team of engineers and serving as a project or program technical lead
- Experience in digital design using VHDL and/or Verilog