Senior Embedded DSP Engineer for Radar & RF Sensing

Mach Industries Inc.; Huntington Beach, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 130,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Mach Industries is seeking a Senior Embedded DSP Engineer to design and implement high-performance radar signal processing for counter-UAV defense systems. You will deliver low-latency, reliable embedded software on advanced processing cores and collaborate with RF, FPGA, and hardware teams on full lifecycle development.

The role emphasizes mathematical modeling, real-time optimization, and rigorous testing in a fast-paced startup environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, System Engineering, or a related field.
• 5+ years of experience developing production signal processing software for radar, RF sensing, EW signal processing, wireless or similarly demanding real-time systems.
• Strong knowledge of digital signal processing, statistical signal processing, estimation, detection theory, or related discipline.
• Ability to identify and translate mathematical models into implementable algorithms that meet system requirements and performance.
• Proficiency with Python, MATLAB, or similar tools for algorithm development, simulation, recorded-data analysis, visualization, and test-vector generation.
• Proficiency in low level C/C++ for embedded systems with the ability to write clean, well-tested, and efficient code.
• Proven experience developing for one or more embedded processing architectures, such as microcontrollers, DSPs, SIMD/vector processors, or heterogeneous multicore SoCs.
• Ability to profile and optimize the performance of signal processing algorithms to meet real-time software constraints and achieve optimal radar system performance.
• Ability to read schematics and bring-up new boards and processors, including bring-up peripherals/drivers and embedded code from scratch.
• Experience using standard device-to-device protocols (SPI, I2C) and GPIO to control/calibrate RF signal chains and interface with customer platforms.
• Ability to debug, test and validate embedded software using functional tests, logic/protocol analyzers and lab tests to ensure the functionality of embedded software.
• Strong grasp of full software development life cycle and ability to execute and thrive in a fast-paced, high-iteration environment, delivering frequent software updates with speed and precision.
• Ability to work 100% on-site at our headquarters in Huntington Beach, CA.

Responsibilities

• Mission: Build next generation counter-UAV defense systems that will be used to defend human lives, critical infrastructure, and high value assets for the United States and its allies.
• Radar signal processing: Develop high performance radar and RF sensing signal processing software, including FFT processing, beamforming and detection on high performance embedded systems, to detect and track targets with high accuracy/resolution while meeting strict latency, memory and power constraints and update rate requirements.
• Modeling & simulation: Develop radar models and simulation tools to prototype candidate algorithms and simulate the performance of the radar system and generate test vectors to validate the accuracy of the radar system.
• Firmware development: Write highly efficient, well-tested production code in C/C++ across platforms ranging from lower power MCUs to high-performance multi-core processors.
• Algorithm and software validation:Develop unit, functional and lab tests to validate the numerical accuracy, real-time performance of the individual software modules and end-to-end signal processing chain.
• Hardware co-design: Work with hardware engineers on component selection and optimal hardware-software trade-offs (performance, power, form factor and cost).
• RF calibration & seeker optimization: Develop automated calibration methods and software for measuring, storing, and applying RF signal-chain corrections. Use calibration and signal processing to maximize end-to-end sensor performance.
• Testing and reliability: Own embedded software quality and reliability and signal processing chain performance by proactively identifying, documenting/tracking and fixing issues to maintain the high performance of Mach’s radar systems.
• Project planning: Contribute to project planning, including communicating risks/blockers and manage engineering trade-offs.
• Documentation: Author clear software specifications, software architecture designs and testing procedures to support manufacturing and scalability.

Skills

Digital signal processing

Radar RF sensing

Embedded C/C++

Python

MATLAB

Performance optimization

Debugging & testing

System bring-up

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or related field

Job description

Mach Industries is seeking a Senior Embedded DSP Engineer to design and implement high-performance radar signal processing for counter-UAV defense systems. You will deliver low-latency, reliable embedded software on advanced processing cores and collaborate with RF, FPGA, and hardware teams on full lifecycle development.

The role emphasizes mathematical modeling, real-time optimization, and rigorous testing in a fast-paced startup environment.