Digital Signal Processing; DSP Engineer, Senior

Location: Aurora, CO

Minimum Clearance Required to Start: Active Top Secret

Join NASK and help shape the next generation of digital signal processing solutions for the nation’s most critical missions.

About NASK NASK has over twenty-five years of experience delivering innovative, mission‑critical solutions to the Intelligence and Defense communities. Our teams combine deep technical expertise with a passion for solving the toughest challenges. Collaboration, innovation, and integrity define our culture — empowering engineers to create impactful solutions that advance national security objectives.

Our Culture NASK builds resilient, scalable teams by pairing strong mentorship with meaningful leadership opportunities. The diversity of our missions creates constant opportunities to grow skills and take on new challenges. We value clear communication and collaboration, and we believe the best solutions can come from anyone on the team.

Senior engineers at NASK are hands‑on leaders. We prioritize rapid delivery of working mission solutions and favor measurable, incremental progress over perfection. Senior engineers move the mission forward by writing code, mentoring junior engineers, and working across teams to incorporate input from users, operators, and stakeholders.

NASK is expanding its mission‑focused engineering team and seeking a Senior Digital Signal Processing (DSP) Engineer to design, develop, and deliver signal processing solutions for the Intelligence and Defense communities. We are seeking a senior, hands‑on engineer with deep expertise in C/C++ development of high‑performance algorithms and a deep understanding of near real‑time digital signal processing systems who has experience working in a larger team to deploy working code to cloud platforms using CI/CD processes.

The ideal candidate leads by doing—reviewing code, unblocking technical issues, and mentoring junior engineers while remaining directly responsible for implementation.

• Design, develop, and implement advanced DSP algorithms for real‑time and near real‑time processing systems.
• Lead the maturation of algorithmic concepts from proof‑of‑concept through deployment in operational environments.
• Analyze, process, and identify RF signals across a variety of emitter types.
• Apply advanced signal processing techniques to address detection, estimation, matched filtering, waveform identification, and feature extraction.
• Collaborate with cross‑functional engineering teams to integrate DSP solutions into larger system architectures.
• Conduct performance analysis, optimization, and validation of algorithms in simulated and live environments.
• Contribute to system design reviews, technical documentation, and code management processes.
• Mentor junior engineers and contribute to a culture of technical excellence and continuous improvement.

• Active TS/SCI clearance with polygraph
• 10+ years of experience developing RF signal collection, processing, and exploitation solutions.
• Proficient in C/C++ for high‑performance algorithm development.
• Strong understanding of real‑time systems and embedded software development.
• Experience supporting SIGINT systems development within the Intelligence or Defense community.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics, or a related technical field (or equivalent experience).

• Knowledge of geolocation theory and techniques
• Experience operating in complex RF environments
• Proficiency in Python, MATLAB, or Octave for algorithm prototyping and analysis

Our people are the core of who we are and what we do. NASK has two decades of experience delivering innovative solutions to the tough technical challenges facing our partners in the Intelligence and Defense communities. Our subject matter experts collaborate with junior developers and analysts, bringing fresh approaches to solve the toughest mission problems.

At NASK, our employees are the backbone of our company, so we provide unsurpassed benefits and work‑life balance. Employees are provided with individual…