Space Wireless Systems Engineer for TeraWave Satellite Network

Blue Origin; Van Horn (TX); On-site; USD 192,000 - 269,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation provided

Travel up to 20%

Job summary

Blue Origin seeks engineers to develop and analyze wireless communication system algorithms for the TeraWave custom silicon platform. You will work across communication systems, modem PHY/MAC, DSP, RF, ASIC, and software teams to develop algorithms and system models and support their implementation in custom silicon.

You will contribute to high-performance, power-efficient solutions for advanced space-based wireless systems, from algorithm development and system simulation through pre-silicon

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Communications Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• 3+ years of experience in wireless communication systems, modem development, DSP, or related engineering.
• Strong understanding of digital communications and signal-processing fundamentals.
• Experience with OFDM, QPSK/QAM, synchronization, channel estimation, equalization, forward error correction, and link adaptation.
• Experience developing communication-system or signal-processing models using MATLAB, Python, C/C++, SystemC, or similar tools.
• Understanding of wireless channel effects and RF impairments and their impact on communication-system performance.
• Ability to work collaboratively across communication systems, ASIC, RFIC, FPGA, software, and test teams.
• Must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum.

Responsibilities

• Develop and model wireless communication algorithms and signal-processing functions for custom silicon, including modem PHY/MAC, radio DSP, beamforming, and packet-processing functions.
• Develop end-to-end communication system and link-level models to evaluate system performance, architecture tradeoffs, and implementation requirements.
• Develop and analyze channel and RF impairment models, including noise, interference, Doppler, frequency and timing offsets, phase noise, nonlinearities, and other relevant impairments.
• Design and evaluate algorithms for synchronization, channel estimation, equalization, modulation/demodulation, coding, link adaptation, and other modem functions.
• Analyze algorithm performance and implementation tradeoffs including performance, complexity, latency, memory, bandwidth, power, and fixed-point requirements.
• Translate communication-system and algorithm requirements into specifications suitable for FPGA and ASIC implementation.
• Work closely with ASIC engineers to support hardware implementation, fixed-point conversion, architecture tradeoffs, and pre-silicon verification of communication algorithms.
• Collaborate with RFIC, beamforming, software, and system engineering teams to define interfaces and ensure end-to-end system performance.
• Develop MATLAB, Python, C/C++, SystemC, or equivalent reference models used for algorithm development, system simulation, and implementation verification.
• Support FPGA prototyping, pre-silicon verification, silicon bring-up, and post-silicon validation to verify system and algorithm performance against requirements.
• Analyze simulation and laboratory results, identify performance gaps, and work across engineering teams to resolve system-level issues.
• Document algorithms, models, requirements, assumptions, interfaces, and verification results.

Skills

Wireless comms

DSP

Python

MATLAB

C/C++

SystemC

FPGA/ASIC

Education

Bachelor's in EE/CE

Tools

MATLAB

Python

C/C++

SystemC

Job description

Blue Origin seeks engineers to develop and analyze wireless communication system algorithms for the TeraWave custom silicon platform. You will work across communication systems, modem PHY/MAC, DSP, RF, ASIC, and software teams to develop algorithms and system models and support their implementation in custom silicon.

You will contribute to high-performance, power-efficient solutions for advanced space-based wireless systems, from algorithm development and system simulation through pre-silicon