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# DSP Engineer

- **Company:** Anonymous Employer
- **Location:** Reston, VA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Algorithm Design, Embedded Software, Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA), Hardware Description Language, Python (Programming Language), MATLAB, System on a Chip, Tcl (Programming Language), Virtualization Technology, Vivado, X-midas, Docker
- **Published:** June 12, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.clearancejobs.com/jobs/8971880/dsp-engineer

## About the Role

5 years+ experience designing FPGA solutions
BS Electrical Engineering or similar field, Master's degree preferred
Embedded software development and interfacing with FPGAs in tightly coupled processor
configurations (such as Zynq MPSoCs / RFSoCs)
Hardware peripheral programming and control for both digital and analog devices
FPGA build scripts using TCL/Make within virtualized environments such as Docker

## Description

Communications systems, associated algorithms, and their design, including an understanding of
RF filters, signal modulation/demodulation, channel equalization/channel estimation, channel
coding (FEC), RF signal acquisition and recovery, RF frequency control (AFC), and RF gain control
(AGC)
Mixed signal requirements including quantization and algorithm fixed point implementations.
MATLAB, Python, or X-MIDAS tools used for algorithm design / validation and test vector generation
Vivado design and simulation tools for FPGA architecture design and HDL implementation of signal processing algorithms


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