About the position
A well-established business is seeking to appoint a Senior Digital Signal Processing Engineer
The Senior Digital Signal Processing Engineer drives or supports the overall design and development of radio astronomy focused Digital Signal Processing products and applications owned by the Data Processing & Pipelines Department within the
Engineering & Technology Development Division
Qualification:
- B.Tech (Eng) (NQF 7) in Electrical, Electronics or Mechatronics Engineering with 13+ years relevant experience, OR
- B.Eng/B.Sc (Eng) (NQF 8) in Electrical, Electronics or Mechatronics Engineering with 9+ years relevant experience
- MSc / [URL Removed] (NQF 9) in Electrical, Electronics or Mechatronics Engineering with 7+ years relevant experience
- PhD (NQF 10) in Electrical, Electronics or Mechatronics Engineering with 5+ years relevant experience
Experience:
- Experience as a DSP or FPGA Engineer with a track-record of designing and implementing complete digital signal processing systems on FPGA-based hardware using HDL or other design tools
- Experience in both designing digital signal processing systems at a higher, product level as well as low-level implementation of components and features
- Experience building signal processing applications for Radio Astronomy instrumentation in particular is advantageous but not required
- Implementing parallel processing on FPGA hardware
- Implementation of accelerated and optimised DSP algorithms
- Experience analysing system requirements and defining a suitable system design
- Writing technical documentation describing the implementation and design of products at various technical levels
- Software Development or Scientific Computing proficiency in either Python, C++, or Matlab
- Working with workflow and issue management tools (e.g., JIRA)
- Working with source code and version control tools (e.g., Git)
Knowledge:
- Multi-rate and parallel implementations of Digital Signal Processing Operations such as FFTs, Filters, DDS, DDC
- Extensive and deep knowledge of FPGA firmware design, parallel implementation and FPGA design tools
- Typical radio astronomy instrumentation: e.g., spectrometers, correlators, beamformers (advantageous)
- High-speed data transport such as ethernet and/or knowledge of large-scale networks (advantageous)
- Controlling and monitoring of DSP applications and components
- Systems Engineering Processes or Software Design Life Cycle
- Software Development or Scientific Computing proficiency in either Python, C++, or Matlab
- Linux operating systems and development tools
Please note that if you have not received a response within 14 days of submitting your application that your application was unsuccessful.
However, please keep a lookout on our website, [URL Removed] for available positions which may be inline with your career aspirations.
Desired Skills:
- Building signal processing applications
- FPGA firmware design
- Radio Astronomy instrumentation
