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RF Software Manager

Impulse Space
Redondo Beach, USA
Full-time
Senior · 7+ years experience
Onsite
USD 205000-250000 yearly / year
Discovered 2 weeks ago
C++FPGAXilinx UltraScale+GPS/GNSSBPSKQPSK
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Responsibilities

  • Lead, manage, and grow a team of engineers responsible for spacecraft communication and GPS receiver systems.
  • Own the architecture, development, integration, verification, and delivery of RF communication and GPS receiver software, simulation, and FPGA logic.
  • Drive development and testing of interfaces between RF hardware, GPS receivers, flight computers, spacecraft flight software, and ground systems.
  • Establish software development, FPGA development, testing, code review, documentation, and release practices appropriate for flight-critical RF and navigation systems.
  • Direct and participate in design, code, and FPGA logic reviews, ensuring implementations are maintainable, testable, reliable, and ready for flight.
  • Partner with RF and avionics hardware teams during board bring-up, integration, troubleshooting, and qualification.
  • Develop team priorities, technical roadmaps, schedules, and staffing plans in coordination with program and engineering leadership.
  • Recruit, interview, and onboard engineers as the RF software organization grows.
  • Identify technical and programmatic risks early and drive them to resolution.
  • Support spacecraft integration, environmental testing, ground-station testing, launch, commissioning, and mission operations.

Minimum Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical field
  • 7+ years of demonstrated experience in developing software for wireless systems in critical applications
  • 2+ years of demonstrated technical leadership, team leadership, or engineering management experience.
  • Demonstrated experience developing embedded software in C++.
  • Strong understanding of RF communication systems, including modulation, demodulation, signal processing, calibration, and RF system control.

Preferred Skills and Experience

  • Demonstrated Xilinx UltraScale+ board bring up and development experience
  • Strong understanding of the major blocks of RF signal modulation/demodulation
  • Familiarity in testing RF components such as PA’s, PLL’s, LNA’s, and mixers
  • Demonstrated experience implementing or integrating baseband systems using BPSK, QPSK, and related digital modulation schemes.
  • Familiarity with GPS/GNSS receiver concepts such as signal acquisition and tracking.
  • Demonstrated experience writing software or firmware for a space environment (space link budgets, ground station integration, etc.)

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