Senior Digital Signal Processing Engineer

Job description

Impulse Space is developing advanced digital signal-processing technologies for resilient terrestrial and spaceborne communications, position/navigation/timing (PNT), RF sensing, and radar systems. We are seeking a proactive Senior Digital Signal Processing Engineer to lead DSP architecture and algorithm development for space and ground applications. You will partner with systems, RF/antenna, ASIC/FPGA, firmware, software, hardware, validation, and mission teams to translate communication and sensing needs into implementable, verifiable systems for demanding operational environments. Lead system-level DSP decisions spanning algorithms, modem architecture, firmware/software, ASIC/FPGA implementation, and RF hardware for communications, PNT, radar, and RF sensing systems. Develop signal-processing solutions for digital beamforming, multi-user/MIMO systems, synchronization, estimation, detection, tracking, interference mitigation, and adaptive communications or sensing. Model and evaluate end-to-end system and link performance using floating- and fixed-point simulations of modem, beamforming, PNT, radar, and sensor-processing chains. Translate algorithms into hardware-realizable, bit- and cycle-accurate implementations in partnership with ASIC/FPGA, RF, firmware, and software engineers. Define and maintain system requirements, interfaces, verification plans, test procedures, and test vectors. Analyze link budgets, channel and hardware impairments, interference, multiple-access performance, dynamic range, quantization, and other system-level tradeoffs. B.S. in electrical engineering, computer engineering, computer science, physics, mathematics, or a related STEM field. 5+ years of experience in DSP, RF/wireless systems, modem development, radar or sensor processing, or system-level modeling. Demonstrated experience developing, simulating, and transitioning algorithms toward fixed-point, firmware, FPGA, or ASIC implementations.