Principal DSP Software Engineer

About this role

The Systems R&D team in the Aerospace, Defense and Government (ADG) Business Unit focuses on the design and development of components and systems in key application areas, including avionics, communications, navigation, Signals Intelligence, Electronic Warfare (EW) and radar. Leveraging NI’s portfolio of PXI RF instruments, modular FPGA co-processors, software-defined radios, and software tools (LabVIEW, LabVIEW FPGA, open source), the Systems R&D team develops IP at various levels to provide differentiated system-level offerings.


As a Principal DSP Software Engineer, you will be responsible for the design and development of embedded DSP and software infrastructure IP blocks, targeting application areas that have emphasis on foundational and advanced communication algorithms, and the associated signal processing for SATCOM/Telemetry/EW/Radar applications. The role demands a deeply technical individual with strong teamwork skills that can think at the system level while providing best-in-class algorithms. You will work closely with domain experts to define and execute the implementation strategy of critical software components, system-level software architectures and APIs/User Interfaces. You will mentor junior engineers in the group on measurement science, and test methodologies.

In this Role, Your Responsibilities Will Be:

- Research, design, implement and test signal processing and communication algorithms required for satellite communications, radar, communications, and navigation systems.
- Validate algorithms with real-world hardware (software defined radios) to prove feasibility of algorithms with real world signals.
- Verify performance at the system level with deployment.
- Map developed algorithms to key application spaces in radar, satcom, communication, and navigation systems.
- Independently lead the feature(s) through release.
- Contribute to product design and code review efforts with the rest of the team.
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