Senior Principal Radar Systems Engineer

E-Space

$120K — $200K *
Aerospace & Defense
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's or advanced degree in electrical engineering, applied mathematics, physics, or a related field.
  • 5+ years of radar, sonar, communications, or high-rate signal processing experience.
  • Strong digital signal processing (DSP) fundamentals and proficiency in MATLAB, Python, C/C++, CUDA, or similar tools.
  • Experience translating algorithms into real-time implementations and objective tests.
  • Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government security clearance at the Secret level or higher.

Responsibilities

  • Develop algorithms for various radar functions including detection and calibration.
  • Create performance models and simulations for validation purposes.
  • Allocate processing functions across multiple hardware resources including GPU and FPGA.
  • Characterize the performance of radar systems including latency and throughput.
  • Support prototype demonstrations and software development for range verification.

Benefits

  • Full-time exempt position based in Saratoga office.
  • Opportunities for extended hours and weekend work during critical periods.
  • Access to cutting-edge radar technology and satellite design processes.
Full Job Description
Join us to design and deploy next-generation, satellite-based radar that delivers persistent, all-weather, day-night sensing at global scale. You'll build end-to-end capabilities-from waveform design, on-board processing, classification and calibration-for systems on LEO platforms. Working across RF hardware, phased arrays, and advanced DSP, you'll turn raw echoes into decision-ready products. If you thrive at the intersection of electromagnetics, signal processing, and systems engineering-and want your code and designs to fly-this role is for you. What you'll be doing: • Develop algorithms for channel processing, beamforming, detection, estimation, calibration, interference mitigation, and related radar functions. • Create performance models, simulations, reference implementations, and test vectors. • Allocate processing functions across GPU, FPGA, embedded, and software resources. • Characterize latency, throughput, numerical precision, resource use, and failure behavior. • Support prototype demonstrations, requirements verification, software development, and I&T. What you bring to this role: • Bachelor's or advanced degree in electrical engineering, applied mathematics, physics, or a related field. • Five or more years of radar, sonar, communications, or high-rate signal-processing experience. • Strong DSP fundamentals and proficiency in MATLAB, Python, C/C++, CUDA, or comparable tools. • Experience translating algorithms into real-time implementations and objective tests. • Security clearance: U.S. citizenship is required. Candidate must be able to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government security clearance at the Secret level or higher, and any program-specific access required for the position. Continued employment is contingent upon obtaining and maintaining the required clearance and access. Bonus points for the following: • GPU-accelerated radar processing and sub-second end-to-end latency experience. • UHF phased-array calibration or digital beamforming experience. • Experience developing independent golden-reference models and test vectors. Additional Requirements: This is a fast-paced, high-impact environment - flexibility to work extended hours or weekends during critical periods is expected. This is a full time, exempt position, based out of our Saratoga office. The target base pay for this position is $120,000 - $200,000 annually. The total compensation packaged will be determined by various factors such as your relevant job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. We are redefining how satellites are designed, manufactured and used-so we're looking for candidates with passion, deep knowledge and direct experience on LEO satellite component development, design and in-orbit activities. If that's your experience - then we'll be immediately wow-ed. This role requires access to controlled technical data. Under U.S. law (ITAR/EAR), we can only consider U.S. persons (U.S. citizens, lawful permanent residents, and individuals granted asylum or refugee status). E-Space is not currently able to provide employment sponsorship for candidates who do not hold work authorization for the location of this role.

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