Senior Digital Communications Engineer

Job Title: Senior Principal Digital Communications Engineer

Remote/Hybrid/On-site: On site, San Diego; 9/80 work week

Duration: 1-year contract

Max Pay Rate ate: $80/hr on W2

Required Clearance: TS/SCI preferred, TS ok though!

Description

The client is looking for a Digital Communications Engineer to support our Systems Engineering Integration & Test (SEIT) department. As a member of the SEIT department you’ll work in a fast-paced team environment alongside other engineers with a wide array of technical skills to make our technologies a reality. Our Advanced Digital Engineering group creates the next generation of communications and signal processing systems and will take ideas from concept to working systems aboard the world’s most advanced platforms. We bring design to life in our San Diego labs and have on-site advanced manufacturing just minutes from the beach Southern California is famous for. As a Digital Communications Engineer , you will have an opportunity to be a part of an organization that is collaborative, open, transparent, and team-oriented with a focus on team empowerment & shared responsibility, flexibility, continuous learning, and a culture of automation.

This position will serve on-site at our Emerging Capabilities Development group in San Diego, CA.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for research, design, and development for digital designs associated with multi-function software defined radios, as well as automated test equipment

• Work with evaluation boards to test proposed designs

• Support the implementation of digital FPGA hardware architecture and algorithms

• Collaborate with Systems Engineering to ensure firmware design meets system level requirements

• Review designs and analysis

• Proven ability to drive complex technical problems to closure

• Proven ability to lead product delivery

• May lead a team of technical engineers

Basic Qualifications:

• 12 Years with Bachelors Degree in Electrical, Computer or related Engineering discipline with specialty in Digital Communications; 10 Years with Masters; 8 Years with PhD.

• Experience in the design and development of digital communications systems including modulation, signal & receiver design, noise processes, detection, equalization, coding, synchronization, and multi-access communications

• Experience in Link budget development, modeling, and testing

• Matlab and Simulink modeling of digital comms systems and algorithms experience

• Hands-on experience in Digital Communications within the last 3 years

• Experience with leading teams through product implementation or demonstration

Preferred Qualifications:

• Optimization of Matlab or Simulink code generated HDL and porting to FPGAs or ASICs

• Open air and/or flight testing of advanced communication systems

• Experience with Military Waveforms

• Waveform Algorithm Design and Decomposition

• Waveform ASIC Development

Job Type: Contract

Pay: $75.00 - $80.00 per hour

Expected hours: 40 per week

Application Question(s):

• Are you comfortable working in an onsite setting?
• Are you local to San Diego, CA? If not, will you relocate on your own expense?
• Are you a US Citizen?
• Do you have hands-on experience designing and developing digital communication systems (modulation, coding, synchronization, etc.)?
• o you have recent experience (within the last 3 years) working on Digital Communications or Software Defined Radios (SDR)?
• Have you worked with Matlab/Simulink for modeling and simulation of communication algorithms?
• Have you led or mentored a team of engineers through product development or demonstration?
• Do you have experience with FPGA or ASIC implementation of waveforms or signal processing algorithms?
• Do you hold a active secret clearance?

• Have you ever worked with military or secure communication waveforms?
• How many years of experience do you have in Digital Communications or Signal Processing system design?

Work Location: On the road