Space DSP Engineer - 5G NR PHY & Firmware

E-Space; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 100,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid holidays

Paid time off

Competitive salaries

Health and wellness care options

Financial solutions for the future

Optional legal services (US only)

Job summary

E-Space in Santa Clara is seeking a DSP/firmware engineer to implement and optimize 5G NR PHY processing for satellite communications over NTN. You will develop C/C++ DSP firmware, run PHY simulations and support pre-silicon verification with ASIC teams.

The role requires strong DSP fundamentals, C/C++, Python or MATLAB for testing, and awareness of fixed-point arithmetic. This full-time position offers a competitive base salary and opportunities to work on cutting-edge space-based IoT.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated DSP and digital-communications fundamentals, including sampling, filtering, modulation, OFDM, synchronization, channel estimation and error-correction concepts.

Responsibilities

• Implement and evaluate defined DSP and 5G NR physical-layer (PHY) functions for satellite communications over NTN.
• Develop and run PHY/link-level simulations to measure performance under satellite channel conditions.
• Develop, test and optimize C/C++ DSP firmware for 5G NR PHY processing.
• Create reference models, test vectors and interfaces for ASIC designers and verification engineers.
• Contribute to SystemC transaction-level modeling and high-level synthesis development.
• Support pre-silicon verification and new-chip bring-up with regression testing and discrepancy documentation.

Skills

DSP fundamentals

Python or MATLAB

Embedded software

Version control

Test automation

Tools

C/C++

SystemC

HDL/ASIC verification

Job description

E-Space in Santa Clara is seeking a DSP/firmware engineer to implement and optimize 5G NR PHY processing for satellite communications over NTN. You will develop C/C++ DSP firmware, run PHY simulations and support pre-silicon verification with ASIC teams.

The role requires strong DSP fundamentals, C/C++, Python or MATLAB for testing, and awareness of fixed-point arithmetic. This full-time position offers a competitive base salary and opportunities to work on cutting-edge space-based IoT.