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DSP Engineer, EW

Costa Mesa, CA (OC-00)💼 Full-time💰 $166,000–$166,000🗓 2026-07-14 → 2026-09-26

Core

Design, develop, and optimize digital signal processing (DSP) algorithms and systems for radio direction finding and direction-of-arrival (DoA) estimation in defense applications.

Role type

Senior IC DSP Engineer (Electronic Warfare)

Builds

Software defined radios, mission-critical sensing capabilities, and deployable RF systems

Domain

Defense / Electronic Warfare / Signal Processing

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | infrastructure

Required skills

Digital signal processing, direction finding algorithms, angle-of-arrival estimation, multi-antenna signal processing, embedded DSP implementation, FPGA, Software Defined Radios, Python, MATLAB, Modeling and Simulation of RF systems, Radar and SAR, deep learning algorithms, wireless communication standards

Preferred skills

ML frameworks (TensorFlow, PyTorch), Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) and Inverse SAR (ISAR), defense/national security/aerospace domain familiarity

Technologies

FPGA, Nvidia Jetson, CUDA, cuSignal, Python, MATLAB, TensorFlow, PyTorch

Responsibilities

Design and optimize DSP algorithms for radio direction finding and DoA estimation; Collaborate with software and hardware engineers to develop software defined radios; Implement high-performance, real-time signal processing chains on embedded platforms; Develop Modeling and Simulation (M&S) code for RADAR techniques and HIL/SIL testing; Participate in laboratory and field testing of RF systems; Participate in the maturation of RF systems into deployable products

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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