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# Sr. DSP Engineer (Starshield)

- **Company:** Space Exploration Technologies Corp.
- **Location:** Hawthorne, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $160,000.0 - $225,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** C++ (Programming Language), Firmware, Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA), Python (Programming Language), MATLAB, Build Management, Information Technology
- **Published:** June 2, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=6a7c467757ae6ad0

## About the Role

Do you have experience in Research?, * Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, math, or other STEM discipline and 5+ years of experience in digital signal processing engineering; OR 7+ years of professional experience in digital signal processing engineering experience in lieu of a degree

 * 5+ years of experience in system-level modeling and/or digital signal processing, * Master's degree in electrical engineering with emphasis in communication systems and/or digital signal processing
 * 3+ years professional experience working on RF sensors or related systems
 * Experience modeling RF and channel impairments such as multipath, phase noise, group delay, fading and nonlinear distortion
 * Experience with software-defined radios and frameworks, such as GNU Radio
 * Knowledge of in MATLAB, C/C++, and/or Python
 * Knowledge of link budgets and analysis related to RF sensing systems
 * Ability to obtain and maintain a Top Secret or Top Secret SCI clearance

## Description

As a Sr. DSP engineer on the Starshield satellite team, you will be a part of a mission to provide global connectivity to the US government including immediate access to critical intelligence and national security data anywhere it is needed. You will work with a team of RF engineers, DSP engineers, software engineers, hardware engineers and end users to design and build systems for proliferated sensing in low earth orbit. You will work in a highly collaborative and fast-paced environment, where we are exploring unsolved problems and applying the SpaceX mindset of iterating rapidly to go from design and demo to operational capability at lightning pace., * Drive program-level decisions on sensor firmware and software designs

 * Research novel solutions for large-scale RF sensing systems
 * Design and test algorithms for on-orbit and ground-based sensor data processing
 * Work in close collaboration with FPGA, RF/antenna, and software engineers to design and validate RF sensing systems
 * Perform on-orbit demonstrations and testing


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