Medior/Senior RF & Wireless Sensing Scientist

Waving; Amsterdam; On-site; EUR 65,000 - 85,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous salary package

Equity compensation: stock options

Fast work culture based on trust and freedom

Job summary

Waving is looking for a full-time Medior/Senior RF & Wireless Sensing Scientist based in Amsterdam. In this role, you'll be responsible for owning the end-to-end sensing and detection pipeline, working closely with the CTO and other senior engineers to transition proofs of concept into scalable products.

The ideal candidate should have at least a master's degree in Electrical Engineering, relevant work experience in signal processing and machine learning, along with strong analytical skills. Waving offers a dynamic startup environment with a generous salary and equity options.

Qualifications

• At least a master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Physics, or a similar field.
• Proven experience with signal processing, RF signals, or wireless communication.
• Proven experience training, evaluating, and running ML models, including selecting and engineering the right features/data inputs.
• 3+ years professional experience with Python.

Responsibilities

• Translating wireless/RF sensing research and RF theory into live processing environments.
• Deciding which signal-derived features and data are the right inputs for detection models.
• Building, training, evaluating and improving ML models for detection and classification.
• Working closely with engineering to deploy models and iterate based on field performance.
• Analyzing and cleaning large-scale sensing datasets and creating repeatable pipelines.

Skills

Signal processing

RF signals

Wireless communication

Machine learning models

Python

Education

Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Physics, or similar

Tools

Cloud environments

Job description

Waving is a rapidly growing and strongly funded deep tech startup that redefines the security industry by protecting lives and buildings with an invisible security layer. Using our in‑house created AI and Wi‑Fi waves we detect human movement in ways not possible until now and use it to protect the world's critical infrastructure. With unusually strong commercial traction across some of the world's biggest airports, ports and government organisations we have innovation partners to develop our technology to scale and we're looking for a Medior/Senior RF & Wireless Sensing Scientist to lead Waving's data pipeline. You'll be joining an amazing, talented and fun team that's moving and growing fast and where you'll be making a real impact, shaping the security of tomorrow.

About the role we're looking for

We're looking for a full‑time Medior/Senior RF & Wireless Sensing Scientist in Amsterdam to own our sensing and detection end‑to‑end, working at the intersection of RF/signal processing and applied machine learning to protect critical infrastructure in real‑world settings. It's a pivotal role, working side‑by‑side with our CTO, Senior Backend Engineer, and Senior Product Manager to turn our PoCs into Waving's scalable product. The ideal candidate is independent, fast‑learning, meticulous, and takes ownership end‑to‑end, from research and feature engineering to model development, evaluation, and field iteration.

What your week could look like

• Translating wireless/RF sensing research and radio frequency (RF) theory into live processing environments
• Deciding which signal‑derived features and data are the right inputs for detection models, and engineer them from raw RF data
• Building, training, evaluating and improving ML models for detection and classification
• Working closely with engineering to deploy models and iterate based on field performance
• Analyzing and cleaning large‑scale sensing datasets and creating repeatable pipelines
• Building lightweight tooling to visualize data, debug edge cases and accelerate iteration

What we can offer you

• Being part of an amazing, talented, and fun team that's here to make a real impact together
• Being part of a fast‑growing and well‑funded start‑up, using incredibly cool tech to protect the world's critical infrastructure at a time when it's needed more than ever
• The opportunity to own and shape end‑to‑end sensing and detection, and help shape the company's products
• A fun and fast work culture based on trust, freedom, and ownership
• A generous salary package
• Equity compensation: stock options on Waving's shares

Who we're looking for

• At least a master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Physics, or a similar field
• Proven experience with signal processing, RF signals, or wireless communication
• Proven experience training, evaluating, and running ML models, including selecting and engineering the right features/data inputs (ideally from signal or sensor data)
• 3+ years professional experience with Python
• Nice to haves: PhD in Electrical Engineering / Physics / a related field, knowledge of embedded systems and/or antenna design, experience working with cloud environments