Sr. Principal DSP Engineer - Platforming

Pentangle Tech Services | P5 Group; Framingham (MA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Pentangle Tech Services | P5 Group is seeking a Sr. Principal DSP Engineer - Platforming in Framingham, MA. You will lead architecture, translate research into scalable DSP components, and drive production-quality implementations for embedded targets.

The role requires 15+ years of DSP and embedded software experience, strong leadership, and onsite collaboration across multiple locations. Candidates should have deep expertise in real-time DSP and vector architectures.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical, Computer Engineering or Computer Science; Master’s or PhD preferred.
• 15-20+ years of DSP and embedded software development experience.
• Deep expertise in digital signal processing and real-time embedded systems.
• Significant experience with fixed-point and floating-point DSP implementations.
• Experience taking algorithms from research through production.
• Experience leading technically complex, cross-functional engineering efforts.
• Ability to diagnose and resolve difficult DSP, performance, and integration problems.
• Strong communication skills and ability to provide technical direction to distributed teams.
• Willingness to work onsite with engineering teams and lab environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead DSP architecture, implementation, integration, and optimization across product platforms.
• Translate research algorithms into scalable production DSP components.
• Define implementation approaches, interfaces, performance requirements, and validation strategies.
• Provide technical leadership and mentoring to DSP engineers across locations.
• Resolve complex performance, memory, and real-time processing issues.
• Review DSP designs for architecture, quality, and maintainability.
• Develop and optimize production-quality C/C++ implementations for embedded DSP targets.
• Guide fixed-point and floating-point implementation decisions.
• Optimize implementations for DSP/vector architectures (HiFi, ARM Neon/Helium, RISC-V).
• Collaborate with systems, firmware, hardware, QA, and algorithm teams to drive production readiness.
• Establish testing, profiling, validation, code review, and documentation practices.
• Lead hands-on hardware bring-up, lab debugging, profiling, and performance characterization.

Skills

DSP

Embedded software development

C/C++

Real-time systems

Fixed-point

Floating-point DSP

System architecture leadership

Technical leadership

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering / Computer Engineering / Computer Science

Master’s or PhD preferred

Tools

Tensilica HiFi

ARM Neon/Helium

RISC-V vector extensions

x64 SIMD

Job description

Job Title : Sr. Principal DSP Engineer - Platforming

Location: Framingham, MA

Experience: 15+ Years

Key responsibilities:

• Lead DSP architecture, implementation, integration, and optimization activities across multiple product platforms.
• Translate research algorithms and reference implementations into scalable production DSP components.
• Define implementation approaches, interfaces, performance requirements, and validation strategies.
• Provide technical leadership and mentoring to DSP engineers working across multiple locations.
• Resolve complex performance, memory, numerical precision, and real-time processing issues.
• Review DSP designs and implementations for architecture, quality, scalability, and maintainability.
• Develop and optimize production-quality C/C++ implementations for embedded DSP targets.
• Guide fixed-point and floating-point implementation decisions.
• Optimize implementations for DSP and vector architectures such as Tensilica HiFi, ARM Neon/Helium, RISC-V vector extensions, and x64 SIMD.
• Partner with systems, firmware, hardware, QA, and algorithm teams to drive integration through production.
• Establish strong engineering practices for testing, profiling, validation, code review, and documentation.
• Lead hands-on hardware bring-up, lab debugging, profiling, and performance characterization on reference and product hardware.
• Work directly with onsite engineering teams to rapidly resolve integration issues and make technical trade-off decisions.

Qualification:

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field; Master’s or PhD preferred.
• 15-20+ years of DSP and embedded software development experience.
• Deep expertise in digital signal processing and real-time embedded systems.
• Significant experience with fixed-point and floating-point DSP implementations.
• Demonstrated experience taking algorithms from research through production.
• Experience leading technically complex, cross-functional engineering efforts.
• Ability to independently diagnose and resolve difficult DSP, performance, and integration problems.
• Strong communication skills and ability to provide technical direction to distributed engineering teams.
• Willingness and ability to work onsite with engineering teams and access hardware/lab environments as needed.