Lead Spaceborne MTI Radar & Tracking Engineer

Entrada Ventures; Redmond (WA); On-site; USD 195,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

Kapta Space in Seattle, WA seeks a Principal Radar Engineer to lead spaceborne MTI detection, tracking, and performance modeling. You will define requirements, architectures, and verification plans while mentoring engineers and collaborating with RF, FPGA, software, and systems teams to implement robust MTI algorithms.

The role emphasizes hands-on development of Doppler processing, clutter suppression, and tracker performance across orbital scenarios, with a senior focus on delivering

Qualifications

• 8+ years in radar systems/signal processing, including MTI detection and target tracking.
• Expertise in waveform design, Doppler processing, detection theory, clutter, tracking, and radar performance.
• Experience with SAR-based MTI/GMTI algorithms and tracker modeling/evaluation.
• Strong MATLAB/Python skills for modeling, simulation, algorithms, and data analysis.
• Strong foundation in estimation theory, probability/statistics, Fourier analysis, and numerical methods.
• Ability to turn mission needs into requirements, architectures, trade studies, and verification plans in a lean startup environment.

Responsibilities

• Define requirements and architectures for spaceborne MTI detection, tracking, and performance.
• Develop MTI algorithms for Doppler processing, clutter suppression, detection, association, and tracking.
• Model radar and tracker performance in MATLAB/Python across representative orbital geometries and target scenarios.
• Lead waveform, processing, detection-threshold, and tracker trade studies to optimize mission performance.
• Analyze simulated and measured data; define metrics, test cases, and verification methods.
• Partner with RF/antenna, FPGA, software, and systems teams to implement and validate algorithms on hardware.
• Serve as MTI radar SME, mentor engineers, support customer reviews, and help grow the radar team.

Skills

Radar systems

MTI detection

Target tracking

Estimation theory

Prob & stats

Education

BS or MS in EE/Physics/Math/CE

Tools

MATLAB

Python

Job description

Kapta Space in Seattle, WA seeks a Principal Radar Engineer to lead spaceborne MTI detection, tracking, and performance modeling. You will define requirements, architectures, and verification plans while mentoring engineers and collaborating with RF, FPGA, software, and systems teams to implement robust MTI algorithms.

The role emphasizes hands-on development of Doppler processing, clutter suppression, and tracker performance across orbital scenarios, with a senior focus on delivering