Radar Systems Engineer — Stealth Robotics Startup, Unlimited Vacation

Chirp Robotics; Torrance (CA); On-site; USD 160,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Unlimited vacation

Job summary

CHIRP Robotics in Torrance, California is seeking a Radar Systems Engineer to serve as the engineering authority for our radar products on autonomous systems. You will translate mission needs into radar requirements and integrate RF hardware, signal processing, tracking, and embedded implementation into a validated sensing solution.

This role involves developing testing and verification procedures, conducting field tests, and acting as the technical representative for our first product with

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, physics, applied mathematics, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• At least 4 years of relevant radar engineering experience, including hands-on development or integration and measured performance validation.
• Solid understanding of radar fundamentals, RF system behavior, sampling, spectral analysis, detection statistics, and estimation.
• Experience modeling radar performance and analyzing signal or measurement data using Python, MATLAB, or equivalent tools.
• Experience with radar signal processing and the practical effects of clutter, multipath, interference, calibration error, and target variability.
• Ability to turn system objectives into testable requirements and communicate tradeoffs across hardware and software teams.

Responsibilities

• Define radar requirements for hardware and software.
• Develop radar performance models and budgets.
• Evaluate waveform, antenna, RF front-end, data-converter, and processing architectures against size, weight, power, compute, and cost constraints.
• Develop and assess signal-processing methods for range–Doppler and FMCW processing, detection, angle estimation, clutter mitigation, and target tracking.
• Define calibration, timing, coordinate frames, data interfaces, beamforming and quality metrics for integration with autonomy and sensor-fusion software.
• Create laboratory and field test plans, analyze measured data, and reconcile observed performance with models and requirements.
• Work with firmware and electrical engineers to implement algorithms within real-time resource limits and diagnose end-to-end performance issues.
• Work with platform engineers to integrate the radar and assess installed performance.

Skills

Radar fundamentals

Python / MATLAB

Signal processing

Test planning

Cross-functional communication

Embedded processing

Education

Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, physics, applied mathematics, or equivalent

Master’s or doctoral degree in radar / EM / signal processing

Tools

C++ on embedded processors

GPUs

DSPs

FPGAs

Job description

CHIRP Robotics in Torrance, California is seeking a Radar Systems Engineer to serve as the engineering authority for our radar products on autonomous systems. You will translate mission needs into radar requirements and integrate RF hardware, signal processing, tracking, and embedded implementation into a validated sensing solution.

This role involves developing testing and verification procedures, conducting field tests, and acting as the technical representative for our first product with