R&D Engineer: Signal Processing Engineer Job University Park Texas USA,Engineering

POSITION SPECIFICS

Your working location will be fully on-site in State College, PA, but options exist for limited hybrid of on-site/work from home, based on project-dependent ability. This role requires frequent travel to designated sponsor or associate contractor and second party locations within and outside the continental United States.

We are searching for analytical engineers with signal processing skills to join the Strategic Systems Operation (SSO) Division within the Information Advantage Office at the Applied Research Laboratory (ARL) at Penn State. This role will focus on research, design, development, integration, and testing of advanced signal processing and communications systems.

ARL is an authorized DoD Skill Bridge partner and welcomes all transitioning military members to apply.

You will:

Apply your expertise in signal processing and communications to contribute to programs of national or international impact by identifying emerging challenges, research trends, and future opportunities
Ensure technical excellence and on-time completion of all project tasks
Develop and deliver clear updates on program status to Fleet-level personnel at both individual and community meetings
Interact and collaborate regularly with the engineering team, principal investigator, sponsors, and other stakeholders
Embrace ARL’s mission to discover, demonstrate, transition, and educate while contributing as a key member of a multi-disciplinary engineering team

Required Skills/Experience areas include:

Advanced understanding of electrical engineering principles associated with communications and signal processing
Knowledge of beam-forming and ambiguity function processing
Familiarity with time-, frequency-, and amplitude/phase-difference of arrival for geolocation
Understanding of adaptive signal processing methods and techniques (Kalman, Wiener, RMS, LMS, etc.)
Acquaintance with digital signal processing techniques used for tuning, filtering, and sampling RF signals
Experience in software-defined radio IQ data processing and acquisition
Working experience in algorithm design and implementation in software (e.g. C/C++, MATLAB, python, etc.)
Understanding of data analysis, statistics, probability, and machine learning applied to IQ signals
Experience in sensor design and/or evaluation of sensor data
Working experience in noisy datasets and integrating noise reduction techniques/methods
Familiarity with analog and digital conversions along with Nyquist sampling theory
Experience or familiarity with statistical signal processing
Field test experience in data evaluation and RF troubleshooting
Familiarity with simulating signal processing block-diagrams and prototype design
Proficiency with converting prototype algorithms from baseline software in MATLAB for near-real time or post-time processing in C++
Experience with time or frequency domain datasets
An understanding of communications protocols - OSI stack, UDP/TCP/IP
Familiarity with wireless specifications such as cellular(4G/5G)/WiFi (802.11)/BLE(802.15)
Troubleshooting experience

Preferred Skills/Experience areas include:

Success in environments where various forms of communication and organizational skills were crucial to be effective
Demonstrated capacity to balance detail-oriented thinking while maintaining the ability to see the “big picture”
Current eligibility for access to classified information at the Secret level or higher and may be subject to a government background investigation to upgrade clearance eligibility to the TS/SCI level

Bachelor’s, Master’s, or PhD degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or Computer Engineering

MINIMUM EDUCATION, WORK EXPERIENCE & REQUIRED CERTIFICATIONS

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