Senior DSP Engineer – Remote with Travel

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🐊 Florida, Maryland, +1 more states – Remote

🐊 Florida – Remote 🦀 Maryland – Remote ⚔️ Virginia – Remote

💵 $175k - $200k / year

⏰ Full Time

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Fairwinds Technologies

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2016

💼 Consulting

🏭 Manufacturing

🎖️ Defense

Consulting • Manufacturing • Defense

Fairwinds Technologies is a small, woman-owned defense-focused communications and systems-integration company based in Annapolis, Maryland. It designs, integrates, and delivers mission-ready communications, networking, and information-technology solutions — including satellite/NTN, radio, and networking products — for U. S. defense, government and commercial customers, combining professional services with proprietary products to keep users connected in harsh and contested environments.

📋 Description

• Design, develop, and optimize DSP algorithms for RF communications signals, including waveform processing in contested and dynamic environments (e.g., filtering, synchronization, channelization, detection/estimation, demodulation/decoding, interference mitigation). • Lead algorithm development from concept through prototype to implementation, balancing performance, latency, robustness, and computational constraints. • Implement and validate DSP solutions on heterogeneous compute platforms including Xilinx RFSoC, UltraScale+, and Versal, leveraging PL/PS resources and hardware acceleration as appropriate. • Collaborate with FPGA engineers to translate algorithms into hardware-realizable architectures (fixed-point design, throughput/latency optimization, resource trade studies, hardware-friendly formulations). • Work closely with embedded software engineers to integrate real-time DSP pipelines (drivers, data movement, DMA, streaming interfaces, buffering strategies, runtime configuration). • Develop and execute test/verification strategies using lab instrumentation and captured RF datasets; characterize performance under impairments (CFO/phase noise, multipath, fading, interference/jamming, nonlinearities). • Develop simulation and analysis environments (e.g., MATLAB/Simulink, Python) and correlate simulation results to hardware/field behavior. • Provide technical leadership: define architecture, conduct design reviews, mentor engineers, and communicate trade-offs clearly to stakeholders. • Produce high-quality documentation (DSP design descriptions, algorithm specs, performance reports, ICD inputs, SBIR deliverables as required). • Support integration, debug, and field test activities spanning DSP, RF, FPGA, and embedded software domains.

🎯 Requirements

• Master’s degree or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Applied Mathematics, Physics, or related field. • 15+ years of relevant DSP engineering experience with demonstrated delivery of RF communications signal processing solutions. • Proven practical experience processing RF communications signals (beyond academic examples), including development, validation, and performance characterization. • Strong fundamentals in communications and statistical signal processing (detection/estimation, synchronization, spectral analysis, filtering, modulation/demodulation concepts). • Experience implementing DSP on embedded/real-time systems and/or hardware-accelerated platforms, including Xilinx UltraScale+, RFSoC, and Versal. • Ability to simulate and/or model DSP algorithms in a suitable environment (MATLAB, Modelsim, etc.), with the ability to define or implement fixed-point functions, where applicable • Demonstrated ability to create innovative DSP approaches when standard methods are insufficient—creative problem solver with strong analytical rigor. • Proficiency in at least one of: Python, C/C++, HDL (VHDL or Verilog), MATLAB (or equivalent), with disciplined software engineering practices. • Experience working with cross-functional teams (RF, FPGA, embedded, systems) to deliver complete system solutions. • U.S. Citizenship and an active DoD Secret (or higher) security clearance (or ability to obtain).

🏖️ Benefits

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