Principal Radar Software Engineer (Onsite)
$107,500–$204,500 year
On-siteHuntsville, Alabama, United States
Job Summary
Define, design, and implement new radar software features using C and C++ while collaborating on agile teams. Troubleshoot, debug, and optimize existing code for performance in complex environments, including high-performance, real-time applications with parallel programming and hardware acceleration. Write comprehensive documentation for system architecture and design specifications, and participate in product reviews to ensure adherence to engineering standards. Maintain and enhance radar signal processing capabilities, such as pulse-Doppler processing and complex baseband simulation, while applying AI to increase efficiency across the System Development Life Cycle. Lead part-time or full-time leadership roles and serve as a Scrum Master or Product Owner as needed. This onsite role in Huntsville, AL, supports defense systems for the nation and allies, requiring an active Secret security clearance and 8+ years of relevant experience.
Required Qualifications
- Active and transferable U.S. government issued security clearance
- U.S. citizenship
- Ability to obtain INTERIM U.S. government issued security clearance
- Degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM)
- Minimum of 8 years of prior relevant experience
- Experience with C++ development on a Linux/Unix based platform
- Experience with Radar systems and signal processing (e.g., pulse-Doppler processing, detection theory, tracking, waveform processing)
- Experience with Digital signal processing (DSP) (e.g., FFTs, filtering, pulse compression, matched filtering)
- Experience with Radio Frequency (RF) systems and antenna concepts (e.g., propagation, phased arrays, beamforming, angle-of-arrival estimation)
- Experience with Radar scene and signal modeling (e.g., target phenomenology, clutter, propagation, complex baseband (I/Q) signal generation)
- Experience with Electronic attack (EA) and electronic protection (EP) concepts
- The ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. government issued interim secret security clearance
- Active Secret security clearance
Desired Qualifications
- Experience in the role as a Scrum Master (SM) and/or a Product Owner (PO)
- 3+ years of MATLAB development for modeling
- Experience with MDA X-Band Radars
- Design, implementation, optimization, and validation of radar signal processing and simulation software
- Development of high-fidelity radar scene and complex baseband (I/Q) signal simulation capabilities
- High-performance, real-time software development
- Parallel programming and hardware acceleration (e.g., multithreading, SIMD, CUDA/OpenCL)
- Performance analysis, profiling, and optimization of computationally intensive applications
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