Precision DSP Engineer: Inertial Sensors & Control

Destinus; Zürich; On-site; CHF 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Destinus in Switzerland is seeking a Digital Signal Processing Engineer to own the algorithms that keep a precision inertial sensor oscillating at the correct frequency and amplitude. You’ll define control loops, estimation, and compensation methods to produce a clean sensor output.

You’ll collaborate with electronics, FPGA, embedded software, physics, and systems engineers to translate mathematical models into robust implementations, validate performance, and diagnose unexpected sensor behavior

Qualifications

• Strong foundation in control theory and DSP, including loop design and stability.
• Experience with state estimation and Kalman filtering for physical systems.
• Proficient in Python or MATLAB for modelling and analysis.
• Ability to translate complex physics into mathematical models and scalable algorithms.
• Clear communication across hardware and software teams.

Responsibilities

• Design and simulate the control loops that keep the sensing element stable and locked.
• Define loop architectures, bandwidths, gains, stability margins, and parameters.
• Develop slower outer-loop algorithms for bias estimation and thermal compensation in C/C++.
• Design and implement Kalman filtering to convert sensor output into accurate rate measurements.
• Own the co-simulation environment to compare hardware and reference models.
• Build models in Python or MATLAB to explore sensor behavior and validate design decisions.
• Establish and interpret sensor characterization methods such as Allan variance and ARW.

Skills

Control theory

Digital signal processing

Kalman filtering

Python or MATLAB

Embedded C/C++

First principles modelling

Cross-disciplinary collaboration

Education

B.Sc./M.Sc./PhD in a technical field

Tools

Python

MATLAB/Simulink

Embedded development tools

Job description

Destinus in Switzerland is seeking a Digital Signal Processing Engineer to own the algorithms that keep a precision inertial sensor oscillating at the correct frequency and amplitude. You’ll define control loops, estimation, and compensation methods to produce a clean sensor output.

You’ll collaborate with electronics, FPGA, embedded software, physics, and systems engineers to translate mathematical models into robust implementations, validate performance, and diagnose unexpected sensor behavior