Principal Digital Signal Processing Engineer, RF Payloads

Denver, CO or Long Beach, CA

Space is a war fighting domain. True Anomaly seeks those with the talent and ambition to build the technology that secures it.

OUR MISSION

True Anomaly delivers decisive capabilities for space superiority. We build autonomous spacecraft, advanced payloads, mission software, and space-based interceptors — enabling the U.S. and its Allies to secure the space environment and counter threats from the ultimate high ground.

OUR VALUES

• Be the offset. We create asymmetric advantages with creativity and ingenuity.
• What would it take? We challenge assumptions to deliver ambitious results.
• It’s the people. Our team is our competitive advantage and we are better together.

BENEFITS & PERKS *

• Best-in-class healthcare: 100% company-paid medical, dental, and vision coverage for you and your dependents, with HSA/HRA options
• Generous time off: Flexible Time Off (FTO) for exempt employees, accrued PTO of up to 25 days for non-exempt employees, plus 12 paid holidays;
  Parental Leave;
  Sick Leave
• Fuel for your day: Daily catered lunch and unlimited snacks for in-office employees
• And more: 401(k) retirement plan, fitness reimbursement, and Dog Fridays
• Equity participation: Equity is included as part of our total compensation package, giving you an opportunity to share in the company’s success.

* Do not apply to fixed term and temporary roles

YOUR MISSION

True Anomaly is seeking a Principal Digital Signal Processing Engineer to lead the architecture, development, implementation, and integration of advanced DSP capabilities for space-based RF payloads.

In this role, you will develop real-time processing systems for high-rate complex I/Q data collected from RF sensors, phased arrays, SIGINT payloads, radar systems, and software-defined radios. You will own DSP efforts across the full development lifecycle—from algorithm development and modeling through implementation on embedded processors, FPGAs, GPUs, and other flight computing platforms.

The ideal candidate is a technical leader who can take algorithms from initial analysis through real-time implementation, hardware-in-the-loop testing, payload integration, and delivery. You will work closely with RF, antenna, FPGA, software, hardware, systems, and payload engineers to define architectures that meet demanding requirements for bandwidth, latency, memory, power, and computational resources.

Experience in one or more of the following areas is highly desirable: phased-array signal processing, digital beamforming, SIGINT, electronic warfare, radar, RF sensing, software-defined radio, communications, or geolocation.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Define DSP architectures and technical roadmaps for RF payloads, including requirements, interfaces, implementation approaches, and verification strategies.
• Develop and implement real-time DSP algorithms for high-rate complex I/Q data.
• Design processing chains that include digital down conversion, channelization, polyphase filter banks, decimation, resampling, filtering, and spectral analysis.
• Develop algorithms for signal detection, characterization, classification, modulation recognition, and signal parameter estimation.
• Develop and evaluate algorithms for phased-array processing, digital beamforming, adaptive beamforming, direction finding, angle-of-arrival estimation, and adaptive nulling.
• Support SIGINT, electronic warfare, RF sensing, and signal exploitation architectures.
• Support radar signal processing, including pulse compression, range-Doppler processing, detection, tracking, and waveform analysis, as applicable.
• Develop algorithms for frequency, phase, and timing synchronization, calibration, interference mitigation, and low-SNR signal processing.
• Analyze real-world…