Radar Signal Processing Engineer — Real-Time Sensing Austin

Austin Sensing Company; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k)

Insurance benefits

Lunch and dinner served daily

Job summary

Austin Sensing Company is seeking a Radar Signal Processing Engineer in Austin, TX to develop algorithms turning radar measurements into reliable detections and tracks. You will work across waveform design, detection, estimation, and tracking, taking algorithms from simulation through implementation and field testing.

You will collaborate with RF, firmware, and software engineers to understand hardware limits, improve radar performance, and ensure algorithms run within real compute and latency

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience developing radar signal processing algorithms and evaluating them against measured data.
• Strong understanding of digital signal processing, radar fundamentals, probability, and statistical estimation.
• Experience with FFT-based processing, filtering, CFAR detection, beamforming, and array processing.
• Proficiency in Python or MATLAB for simulation and analysis.
• Experience implementing performance-sensitive algorithms in C++ or a comparable language.
• The ability to diagnose whether a performance issue comes from an algorithm, the hardware, or the test setup.
• Experience balancing detection performance with compute, memory, and latency constraints.
• Clear technical communication and comfort working across hardware and software teams.

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement algorithms for range, Doppler, and angle estimation, detection, and target tracking.
• Evaluate waveforms and processing approaches against requirements for range, resolution, coverage, and update rate.
• Build simulations to evaluate performance across target characteristics, clutter, interference, and noise.
• Develop beamforming, calibration, clutter suppression, and adaptive detection methods.
• Analyze recorded radar data to identify missed detections, false alarms, estimation errors, and tracking failures.
• Implement and optimize algorithms for real-time operation, working with firmware and software engineers on deployment.
• Design bench and field tests that measure detection probability, false alarm rates, estimation accuracy, and track continuity.
• Work with RF engineers to understand how antenna performance, channel mismatch, timing, and other hardware effects influence processing.
• Build repeatable tools for data analysis, algorithm evaluation, and regression testing.
• Document algorithm assumptions, performance results, and tradeoffs so the team can make informed design decisions.

Skills

Radar signal processing

DSP fundamentals

FFT processing

CFAR detection

Beamforming

Array processing

Python

MATLAB

C++

Embedded computing

Education

Electrical engineering degree

Job description

Austin Sensing Company is seeking a Radar Signal Processing Engineer in Austin, TX to develop algorithms turning radar measurements into reliable detections and tracks. You will work across waveform design, detection, estimation, and tracking, taking algorithms from simulation through implementation and field testing.

You will collaborate with RF, firmware, and software engineers to understand hardware limits, improve radar performance, and ensure algorithms run within real compute and latency