(Fastwater Staffing) Staff Systems Engineer, Signal Processing / SAR Processor -Fully Remote

Hikinex; Sacramento (CA); Remote; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Hikinex is seeking a Staff-level engineer to lead a team building high-throughput SAR processing systems that turn raw satellite radar data into imagery, deployed on the ground and potentially on board spacecraft. This is fully remote from the US with optional relocation to Vancouver later.

You will define specifications, manage risks, and drive integration across ground and space segments, mentoring the team and communicating with technical, sales, and executive audiences.

Qualifications

• Degree in Electrical Engineering, Engineering Physics, Math or Physics (or equivalent).
• 12+ years in an engineering environment, including 5+ years on complex signal processing systems (radar, medical imaging, computer vision or similar)
• 10+ years in a large product development or systems engineering environment
• Solid grounding in high‑speed, high‑throughput data analysis and transmission design

Responsibilities

• Lead the definition, specification, technical risk management, integration, verification and validation of SAR processors, new and existing
• Supervise interface control document development; ensure hardware and software components integrate into the larger ground or space segment
• Coordinate trade-offs between theoretical algorithms and their implementation on the actual processor
• Troubleshoot root causes of processing errors and artefacts in image products and find mitigations; optimize processing time toward near‑real‑time
• Take part in mission design trade‑off studies; mentor the team; advise senior management and new business pursuits

Skills

Signal processing

High-throughput data

Communication

Python

MATLAB

C++

Leadership

Radar

Education

Electrical Engineering / related

Tools

MATLAB

Python

C++

FPGA design

Job description

Our client is hiring a Staff-level engineer to lead a highly specialized team building cutting‑edge, high‑throughput signal processing systems that turn raw satellite radar data into SAR imagery, deployed on the ground and potentially on board spacecraft. Fully remote from the US; optional relocation to Vancouver later.

What you will do

• Lead the definition, specification, technical risk management, integration, verification and validation of SAR processors, new and existing
• Supervise interface control document development; ensure hardware and software components integrate into the larger ground or space segment
• Coordinate trade-offs between theoretical algorithms and their implementation on the actual processor
• Troubleshoot root causes of processing errors and artefacts in image products and find mitigations; optimize processing time toward near‑real‑time
• Take part in mission design trade‑off studies; mentor the team; advise senior management and new business pursuits

What you need

• Degree in Electrical Engineering, Engineering Physics, Math or Physics (or equivalent)
• 12+ years in an engineering environment, including 5+ years on complex signal processing systems (radar, medical imaging, computer vision or similar) and 10+ years in a large product development or systems engineering environment
• Solid grounding in high‑speed, high‑throughput data analysis and transmission design
• MATLAB, Python or C++
• Clear communicator to technical, sales, executive and customer audiences
• US citizen or permanent resident

Nice to have : SAR remote sensing (system design, operation, exploitation, calibration); satellite SAR payload design and operations; FPGA or ASIC based system design; geospatial data.