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Senior DSP Engineer

Salary

$155k - $185k

Min Experience

8 years

Location

Victor, New York, United States

JobType

full-time

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About the role

Company Overview

Metrea delivers effects-as-a-service to national security partners across five domains and more than a dozen mission areas—including airborne ISR, electronic warfare, secure communications, aerial refueling, special mission aviation, aerial firefighting, and advanced simulation. 


Wherever we operate, we build vertically integrated full stacks of capability—designing, building, and operating turnkey solutions that let customers scale capacity while benefiting from continuous cycles of innovation. With operators and engineers under one roof, we close the gap between lab and field—what we call connecting design with effect. 


Metrea’s solutions are built for elegance: effective, efficient, and evolving. This approach enables our partners to do more with less and achieve outsized, asymmetric advantage against rapidly evolving threats. 


Headquartered in Washington, DC, Metrea has facilities across the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe, and beyond.


Capability Area: 

The Electromagnetic and Cyber Group (EM&C) develops and builds systems for communications and RF sensing. Within EM&C, RADLAB is our radar capability area. RADLAB is a small team building novel capabilities from the ground up, taking ideas from physics and math through simulation, prototype, and test.


Position Summary 

We're looking for a Senior DSP Engineer to design, implement, and validate radar signal processing algorithms in production C++. You'll work closely with the Head of RADLAB, R&D staff, and other engineers to turn research concepts into fast, tested, profiled, and reproducible code. This is a small lab doing novel work. You'll see your algorithms run on real hardware, real time, on real missions.

 

 

Role and Responsibilities 


  • Implement and validate radar signal processing algorithms, such as digital beamforming, signal detection, Doppler estimation, and digital filtering in modern C++.
  • Own the reference processing chain: unit and integration tests, golden vector validation inside our CI/CD pipelines. 
  • Run simulation campaigns (Monte Carlo, sensitivity sweeps) and document results. 
  • Profile performance and identify numerical stability issues, bottlenecks, and optimization opportunities. 
  • Translate mathematical specifications into correct, maintainable, testable code, and push back when the math needs revisiting. 
  • Deploy your work onto RADLAB hardware and ensure algorithm designs are feasible under real-time constraints.

 

Required Skills and Experience 

  • BS/MS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Applied Math, Physics or a related field.
  • 8+ years implementing signal processing algorithms in C or C++.
  • Strong applied math: comfortable reading derivations and designing and implementing numerical algorithms for computing the results.
  • Experience validating algorithm implementations against analytical derivations, simulated ground truth, or measured data.
  • Software engineering discipline: version control, testing, documentation, code review.
  • Clear technical writing.

 

Bonus Qualifications 

  • Radar-specific DSP experience: adaptive beamforming, STAP, pulse compression, or CFAR.
  • Modern C++ fluency (C++17/20, templates, concepts).
  • Python for prototyping, analysis, and test automation.
  • GPU-accelerated signal processing.
  • FPGA experience. HLS (C++-based) is sufficient; RTL is not required. You'll have the opportunity to learn if you haven't done it.
  • Familiarity with SDR platforms or radar hardware-in-the-loop environments.
  • A PhD degree with a thesis in a radar or statistical signal processing topic.


Work Authorization / Security Clearance 

  • U.S. Citizenship
  • Ability to obtain and maintain a TS security clearance. 


Our Culture 

Metrea’s single core value, “rooted in humility,” is supported by four key attributes: entrepreneurial, systematic, discerning, and over-deliver. These attributes, combined, form our Teammate Firmware, our culture. We explore these attributes during the hiring process when we grow our teams and continually support the growth of our culture. We are a hyper-collaborative, dynamically hierarchical organization united by a passion for what we do, how we do it, who we do it with, and who we do it for. 



AAP/EEO Statement 

Metrea Advanced Signals (MAS) is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.


Position Type and Expected Hours of Work 
This is a full-time exempt position with typical working hours of Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. 

Work Location
 
Victor, NY

Work Environment 
Office and Lab

Physical Demands 
This is a largely sedentary role; however, some physical abilities may be required

Travel 

<5%

Reasonable Accommodations Statement
To perform this role successfully, an individual must be able to perform the responsibilities outlined in this job description to a satisfactory standard. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with additional needs to perform the essential functions.

About the company

Provides specialized aerospace and defense services for national security.

Skills

C++ (modern, C++17/20)
C
Python
CUDA
GPU acceleration
FPGA (HLS)
MATLAB/Octave