Senior Principal Radar DSP Engineer: CUDA & AI Tools

0090 CORP-Corporate Office; United States; On-site; USD 129,000 - 194,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance coverage

Life and disability insurance

Savings plan

Company paid holidays

Paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/o

Personal business leave

Job summary

Northrop Grumman Space Systems is seeking a Sr. Principal Software Signal Processing Engineer to support the DARC program in Colorado Springs, CO. The role focuses on developing radar DSP software for object identification and tracking in geosynchronous orbit.

The engineer will design and optimize algorithms, collaborate with hardware teams, and lever dates AI tooling while maintaining engineering accountability. Security clearance and DoD requirements apply.

Qualifications

• ://8 years with a Bachelors in Science, 6 years with a Masters in Science degree, and 4 years with the PhD Active DoD Secret clearance at time of application
• Experience with C++, Java, Python and CUDA
• Experience with Linux
• Experience with RF Signal Processing
• Experience with GPU optimization
• Experience with NVIDIA MatX library
• Experience with AI Tooling
• Experience with high side development and processes

Responsibilities

• Designs, develops, documents, tests, and debugs applications software, and systems that contain logical and mathematical solutions.
• Conducts multidisciplinary research and collaborates with equipment designers and/or hardware engineers in the planning, design, development, and utilization of electronic data processing systems for product and commercial software.
• Determines computer user needs; analyzes system capabilities to resolve problems on program intent, output requirements, input data acquisition, programming techniques, and controls; prepares operating instructions; designs and develops compilers and assemblers, utility programs, and operating systems.
• Demonstrated experience developing and optimizing radar signal processing algorithms and pipelines (DSP), including use of common engineering toolchains such as DSP System Toolbox / Signal Processing Toolbox / Phased Array System toolsets.
• Demonstrated experience with GPGPU acceleration (e.g., CUDA) for performance- critical signal processing and/or analytics workloads.
• Experience using AI-enabled engineering tooling (e.g., an AI coding assistant) to accelerate development tasks such as code explanation, refactoring, and test generation—while maintaining engineer accountability for reviewed code.

Skills

C++

Java

Python

CUDA

Linux

RF Signal Processing

GPU optimization

AI Tooling

Education

Bachelor's in Science

Master's in Science

PhD

Tools

NVIDIA MatX library

Job description

Northrop Grumman Space Systems is seeking a Sr. Principal Software Signal Processing Engineer to support the DARC program in Colorado Springs, CO. The role focuses on developing radar DSP software for object identification and tracking in geosynchronous orbit.

The engineer will design and optimize algorithms, collaborate with hardware teams, and lever dates AI tooling while maintaining engineering accountability. Security clearance and DoD requirements apply.