Digital Signal Processing/Forward Error Correction Engineer

Digital Signal Processing/Forward Error Correction Engineer, Linthicum Heights, MD We are looking for multiple candidates at multiple levels for this Digital Signal Processing/Forward Error Correction Engineer position. Candidates must be US Citizens and cannot have Dual Citizenships. All candidates must be fully vaccinated with an FDA authorized and/or approved

COVID-19

vaccine as a condition of employment. Requests for reasonable accommodations for medical, religious, or other reasons will be considered in accordance with applicable law. These positions are 100% Onsite.

Responsibilities:

• Familiarity with standard classes of codes, including BCH, Reed-Solomon, Reed-Muller, Golay Codes, Convolutional Codes, Turbo Codes, LDPCs, Polar Codes, etc.
• Ability to analyze systems and communication channels and choose modulation and coding (including code design, rates, puncturing schemes, etc) that are most appropriate to maximize performance.
• Contribute to algorithm design, analysis and architecture specification for DSP blocks of a digital front end various radio architectures.
• Derive requirements, conceptualize, define, design & prototype systems engineering solutions.
• Understand system-level requirements and work with various teams to ensure that designs and implementations are meeting expectations.
• Document designs and interfaces, distribute across teams and conduct reviews and discussions.
• Understand the big picture but also break down to system-level components to capture dependencies, bottlenecks or risk areas in design.
• Work with systems architects and hardware engineers to develop, implement and test robust radio signal processing algorithms.
• Test, verification and debug of field test systems.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Knowledge of modulation, demodulation, forward error correction, randomization, and packet analysis.
• Prior experience designing and/or building wireless communications transmitters and receivers.
• Familiar with design, optimization and testing of communication signal processing algorithms.
• Experience in writing Matlab and C/C++ to emulate system test conditions.
• Understanding of commercial standards (e.g., 802.11, 4G/5G, etc.).
• Proficient in Matlab, Mathematica, Python or other scripting language, simulation tools.
• Proficient in creating engineering documents: system designs, interface specifications, requirements/specifications, etc.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Familiarity with FPGA and RTL design including hardware description languages (Verilog, System Verilog, VHDL).
• Good knowledge and understanding across various engineering principles that apply to wireless communications systems (RF, DSP, FPGA, software, digital/hardware, mechanical/packaging) and their interdependencies.
• Experience designing RF front-end architectures.

Benefits include medical insurance, retirement plan, PTO, etc.

Salary:

80K+ DOE.