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Senior DSP Software Engineer

BrightHire Search Partners

As a Senior RF/DSP Software Engineer, you’ll design and evolve the real-time software that acquires, processes, stores, and analyzes RF signals—covering signal detection, parameter measurement, direction finding, and communications intelligence.

What You’ll Do
  • Contribute to new features, performance improvements, and system-level design to cutting-edge communication and drone detection equipment.
  • Modify existing software and build new modules to implement customer-specific and market-facing capabilities, then support testing and analysis up to the full system level.
  • Contribute to technical documentation and collaborate across hardware, software, and systems teams.
Experience Needed:
  • Bachelor's or Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering or similar discipline
  • 7+ years of strong C/C++ development (C++11 or newer ideally)Extensive experience designing, implementing, and testing complex real-time, multithreaded, multitasking, multicore embedded server software.
  • Solid understanding of ADCs, RF receiver architectures, and associated quality metrics.
  • Hands-on experience with spectrum signal processing algorithms and concepts such as FFT, CCDF, ZIF, DDC, and managing interrupts/data blocks.
  • Cross-platform development targeting Linux and Windows.
  • Strong grasp of synchronization primitives, queues, task scheduling, TCP/UDP networking, socket-level programming, and TCP message-based client/server communication.
  • Real-time hardware control and data acquisition experience.
  • Knowledge of signal direction finding / geolocation concepts.
  • Xilinx/AMD Zynq, UltraScale+, or FPGA development.
  • Familiarity with RF test equipment (spectrum analyzers, signal generators, etc.).

Must be a U.S. citizen or Permanent Resident from an ITAR-compliant country.

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