Senior Radar Firmware Engineer Engineering Dresden, Germany

Xneural GmbH; Dresden; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Firmware ownership

Radar/Embedded/AI/Cloud work

Direct collaboration

Fast decision paths

Job summary

Xneural GmbH in Dresden seeks a Senior Radar Firmware Engineer to own the firmware that drives our 77 GHz radar front end on sensor nodes. You will implement waveform control, perform DSP algorithms on bare metal, and verify performance against lab measurements.

You will collaborate with Radar Systems Architect, embedded Linux team, and perception team to ensure real-time operation within timing, memory, and power budgets, contributing to a scalable, cloud-connected radar perception platform.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of hands-on firmware or DSP development for embedded signal processing systems.
• Practical experience with radar signal processing algorithms such as detection, tracking, or clutter suppression.
• Experience planning and running radar measurements, and comparing results against expected algorithm behaviour.
• Experience with bare-metal development on multicore SoCs: startup and memory layout, DMA, and interrupt latency.
• Solid C skills, plus working proficiency in at least one of C++, Rust, or DSP assembly.
• Experience defining firmware architecture for a shipped product, not only for prototypes.
• Experience with software and hardware performance analysis: profiling, timing, memory, and power on the target.

Responsibilities

• Implement radar signal processing algorithms bare metal on the DSP cores of our NXP radar SoC
• Define and maintain the firmware architecture for the radar signal chain
• Implement waveform generation, timing, and control for the 77 GHz front end
• Verify algorithm behaviour against lab measurements, including the test setups needed tocharacterize it
• Analyze and optimize runtime, memory, and power consumption on the target hardware
• Produce and maintain the micro-Doppler data products the perception team's classification modelsare trained and run on
• Work with the Radar Systems Architect to bring algorithm designs onto the target
• Work with the embedded Linux team on interfaces, build integration, and firmware updates

Skills

C programming

C++

Rust

DSP assembly

Embedded systems

Radar signal processing

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or related field

Tools

DMA

Job description

We do not accept unsolicited profiles from recruiters or staffing agencies.

Xneural develops next-generation airspace surveillance systems thatprotect civil and critical infrastructure, based on distributed radar sensorsand cloud-based AI perception. Our mission is to make the lower airspacevisible through Drone Detection as a Service deployed on existingtelecommunications infrastructure.

We are building a highly scalable radar perception platform capable ofdetecting, tracking, and classifying airborne objects in complexreal-world environments.

Role Overview

As our Senior Radar Firmware Engineer, you own the firmware that runs the radar signal chain on oursensor nodes. You implement waveform control and signal processing algorithms bare metal on an NXPradar SoC driving our 77 GHz front end, verify them against measurements in the lab, and keep thechain inside its timing, memory, and power budget. You work directly with the Radar SystemsArchitect on algorithm design, with the embedded Linux team on the platform your firmware runs on,and with the perception team on the micro-Doppler data their classification models consume.

Key Responsibilities

• Implement radar signal processing algorithms bare metal on the DSP cores of our NXP radar SoC
• Define and maintain the firmware architecture for the radar signal chain
• Implement waveform generation, timing, and control for the 77 GHz front end
• Verify algorithm behaviour against lab measurements, including the test setups needed tocharacterize it
• Analyze and optimize runtime, memory, and power consumption on the target hardware
• Produce and maintain the micro-Doppler data products the perception team's classification modelsare trained and run on
• Work with the Radar Systems Architect to bring algorithm designs onto the target
• Work with the embedded Linux team on interfaces, build integration, and firmware updates

Required Qualifications

• 7+ years of hands-on firmware or DSP development for embedded signal processing systems (a degreein Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Physics, or a related field is welcome, thoughequivalent practical experience counts just as much)
• Practical experience with radar signal processing algorithms such as detection, tracking, orclutter suppression
• Experience planning and running radar measurements, and comparing the results against expectedalgorithm behaviour
• Experience with bare-metal development on multicore SoCs: startup and memory layout, DMA, andinterrupt latency
• Solid C skills, plus working proficiency in at least one of C++, Rust, or DSP assembly
• Experience defining firmware architecture for a shipped product, not only for prototypes
• Experience with software and hardware performance analysis: profiling, timing, memory, and poweron the target

Nice to Have

• Experience with FMCW radar and multi-channel or MIMO front ends
• Experience with fixed-point implementation and numerical accuracy analysis
• Experience with vendor DSP toolchains and SDKs, ideally the NXP radar SDK
• Practical command of laboratory instruments such as oscilloscopes, spectrum analyzers, signalgenerators, and vector network analyzers
• Contributions to open-source signal processing or embedded projects
• German language skills are beneficial but not required

What We Offer

• Ownership of the radar firmware on every sensor node we ship
• Work on radar, embedded, AI, and cloud technology
• Direct collaboration with experienced founders and industry experts
• Short decision paths and high individual ownership
• Links to relevant projects, publications, or GitHub profile (optional)