DSP Engineer

LufCo•Aberdeen, MD

4d•$150,000 - $250,000•Onsite

About The Position

LufCo is hiring a Digital Signal Processing Engineer to join a collaborative, small team environment to provide the development and improvement to a GPU accelerated signals processing framework. The Digital Signal Processing Engineer will support an established project that consists of a highly visible, Deployed, Digital Signal Processing (DSP) of broad-spectrum RF signals.

Requirements

B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related discipline
10+ years of experience as a DSP engineer
TS/SCI clearance
US citizenship
Strong C/C++ development skills with emphasis on performance-critical, low-latency code
Python scripting for test automation, data analysis, and pipeline integration
Familiarity with Python signal processing libraries including NumPy, SciPy, and matplotlib for algorithm prototyping prior to GPU-accelerated CUDA/C++ implementation.
Experience with RPM/DEB packaging and Linux system-level deployment.
Experience with the VITA 49 standard for streaming IQ data, including packet framing, context packets, and integration with SDR hardware or signal processing pipelines.

Nice To Haves

Familiarity with Docker/OCI, Kubernetes
CUDA parallel computing platform and programming model experience
C/C++/Java/Python/Shell Scripting/Google Protocol Buffers/HTTP Rest APIs/Docker/RPMs or equivalent
Digital Signal Processing
Experience with signal generators and spectrum analyzers.
Hands-on experience with CUDA parallel computing, including kernel development, memory hierarchy management (global, shared, pinned host memory), and GPU/CPU data transfer optimization.
Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines (GitLab CI, Jenkins, GitHub Actions) for automated build, test, and deployment of DSP software.
Hands-on experience with Software Defined Radios (SDRs) such as USRP, RTL-SDR, or similar hardware for signal collection and algorithm validation.
Experience with wideband blind signal detection, channelization, and multirate signal processing techniques.
Experience integrating DSP processing blocks into plugin or event-driven frameworks.

Responsibilities

Digital Signal Processing support
New Development, Feature Enhancements, and Bug Fixes
Supporting Feature Enhancements and Bug Fixes of existing components using C/C++
Code Reviews
Software Development Processes
Working in a small team environment
Developing, managing, and updating digital signals
Extracting narrowband signals out of a wideband signal
Using GPU resources to implement real-time signal processing solutions
Implementing signal processing algorithms
Utilizing multirate signal processing techniques
Signal processing algorithm creation/implementation