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Communications/DSP Associate Engineer Program
Company | Astranis |
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Location | San Francisco, CA, USA |
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Salary | $1750 – $1750 |
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Type | Full-Time |
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Degrees | Bachelor’s |
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Experience Level | Entry Level/New Grad |
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Requirements
- A passion for working in a fast-paced environment and constantly learning
- Strong fundamentals in ‘signals and systems’ (basic transforms, filters, aliasing, analysis in both continuous and discrete domains, interpolation, decimation, etc)
- Strong fundamentals in digital communications (modulation, coding, synchronization, fading, doppler, multiple access, channel capacity, etc)
- Familiar with software development (some experience writing software for DSP, MCU, and/or FPGA, experience in one or more scripting languages)
- Familiar with analog concepts (amplifiers, analog filters, gain and delay variation, reflections, compression, etc)
- Experience working with signal generator, signal analyzer, network analyzer, oscilloscope, etc
- US Citizenship or Green Card
- Don’t meet them all? Not a problem. Please apply even if you do not meet all these criteria.
Responsibilities
- Design signal processing for custom software defined radio hardware (ex. channelization, equalization, PA linearization, gain control, carrier synchronization, symbol mapping, framing, channel coding/FEC, etc)
- Work closely with FPGA developers to implement and test the signal processing on radio hardware
- Model the end-to-end radio system from earth to space, and back.
- Drive radio architecture trade studies, run link budgets, optimize the radio system for maximum performance for dozens of markets and use cases around the world
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with software defined radios
- Experience with Python
- Experience with GNU Radio
- Experience with FPGA development (and/or embedded C)