Senior Radar Processing Engineer (SAR/MTI) - Remote

Umbra

Reston (VA)

Hybrid

USD 170,000 - 200,000

Full time

2 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Flexible Time Off

Medical, Dental, Vision, Life

Stock Options

401k with company contribution

Free parking in the building

Free lunch in office daily

Job summary

Umbra is seeking a Senior Software Engineer in the Radar Processing Group to develop processing pipelines for radar data, including MTI, Passive RF, and SAR. You will build robust software and maintain production services across the processing chain.

Preferred locations include Santa Barbara/Goleta, CA; Arlington, VA; or Reston, VA, with remote consideration for highly qualified candidates.

Qualifications

Experience in SAR image processing.
Bachelor's degree or equivalent in a STEM field.
5+ years in signal/image processing development.
5-8+ years with Matlab or Python.
Experience with Git or other version control.
Foundational software architecture, event-driven micro-services, interface design, and automated testing patterns.
Experience with relational databases.
Experience with parallel processing and HPC.

Responsibilities

Develop and improve radar algorithms including MTI, Passive RF, and SAR.
Write production quality software with unit and integration testing.
Support modeling, simulation, mission design, and systems analyses for current and future architecture.
Monitor, evaluate and improve production throughput for cost and timeliness efficiency.
Build, test, and maintain applications that run our satellites and automate spacecraft operations, mission scheduling, and telemetry pipelines.
Provide software architecture expertise to cross-functional engineering and product teams.
Help establish and adhere to DevOps practices for quality and performance.