Signal Proccecing Engineer GTRI-ICL

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The Information and Communications Laboratory (ICL), Communications Systems and Spectrum Division (CSSD) Advanced Communication Systems Branch (ACSB) is looking for a senior Signal Processing Engineer who is interested in research and development of innovative solutions for wireless communications and spectrum sensing systems.

The Division's projects fuse advanced digital signal processing (DSP), communications technologies, adaptive algorithms, and AI/ML to develop solutions for systems that include adaptive communications, intelligent wideband spectrum sensing, electronic warfare (EW) systems, and next‑generation cellular network technologies. The Division supports research and development efforts across many branches of the Federal Government. The Division focuses on early‑stage research from applied research to laboratory and field demonstrations to deployed prototype systems.

The ideal candidate will be an experienced DSP researcher with a desire to work with other team members while researching, implementing, testing, and fielding adaptive communication and spectrum sensing systems. Research includes performing algorithm development and trade‑off analysis to provide robust and optimal Physical, Data, and Network Layers for communication in complex and dynamic environments of interest to research sponsors.

Develops and/or applies mathematical, statistical, computational, or modeling techniques to generate algorithms for the processing of analog or digital signals, which may be performed in hardware, firmware, or software systems. Development includes implementation of time and frequency signal algorithms, communications and spectrum sensing algorithms, image processing algorithms and/or the application of sensing and perception algorithms in computer vision, lidar, or other sensor processing modalities.

Utilizes complex engineering and mathematical principles to compose algorithm structures for problem solutions including the application of filtering and data fusion methods. Applies algorithms to application specific hardware by writing code in assembly language or in a higher level software environment and integrates or interfaces with additional systems.

• Develop methods and tools to perform research tasks to meet project objectives
• Implement and test algorithms implementation on various platforms
• Lead or contribute to the development of whitepapers and proposals to support a research area
• Support sponsors and potential sponsors engagement
• Primary author of sections technical reports/presentations of projects, journal articles, and conference presentations

• Lead research and development of components of OSI layer 1 for advanced communication system research with ability to support OSI layer 2 and 3 research
• Collaborate on research and design of signal processing algorithms for spectrum sensing
• Support and perform intelligent, adaptive algorithm research
• Develop algorithms using Fixed Point Math and Simulink for use in FPGAs
• Participate in the execution of projects, including attending technical meetings, completing assigned technical tasks, collaborating with colleagues, and presenting their research to the technical team and team leads
• Identify metrics useful for observation and characterization of a wireless communications system to optimize communication system performance
• Apply advanced technical…