Senior Radar Systems Engineer

Umbra • Santa Barbara, CA

5h

About The Position

We are actively seeking a skilled and motivated individual to join Umbra's Radar Processing Group as a Senior Software Engineer. In this pivotal role, you will play a crucial part in the development of our processing pipelines. Your responsibilities will not only encompass the development and implementation of high-quality, robust software solutions but also involve maintaining and refining production-level services that are essential for the seamless operation of our entire processing chain. This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to cutting-edge projects that have a direct impact on our technological advancements and overall mission. Our aim is to hire this position to work in either our Santa Barbara/Goleta, CA office, Arlington, VA office, or Reston, VA office (coming soon).

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in a related STEM field (such as electrical engineering, physics, or computer science).
• 5+ years of professional experience in signal / image processing development.
• 5-8+ years of professional experience with Matlab or Python.
• Experience with version control software, preferably Git.
• Demonstrated foundational understanding of software architecture, event-driven micro-services, interface design, and automated testing patterns.
• Experience with database-backed applications and relational database concepts.
• Experience with parallel processing and HPC.
• One or more Desired Qualification.

Nice To Haves

• Advanced degree in a relevant STEM field.
• Proficiency in parallel processing and high-performance computing (HPC).
• Excellent communications skills, ability and desire to work collaboratively in a team environment, and willingness to learn new skills and technology.
• Comfortable working in a dynamic and fast-paced development environment.
• Proven experience in machine learning.
• 10+ years experience with Python's scientific stack: Numpy, Scipy, and Numba.
• Excited to share knowledge and experience across the engineering team.
• Experience designing, developing, and testing intuitive and well-documented RESTful APIs.
• Experience with C/C++, Rust, CUDA.
• Significant background with SAR processing.

Responsibilities

• Develop and improve radar algorithms including: MTI, Passive RF, and SAR
• Write production quality software with unit and integration testing
• Support commercial and government teams in modeling, simulation, mission design, and systems analyses for current and future architecture.
• Monitor, evaluate and improve production throughput for cost and timeliness efficiency.
• Build, test, and maintain applications that run our satellites and tackle a variety of problems, including automating spacecraft operations, mission scheduling, command and telemetry pipeline, mission data pipeline, and anomaly response.
• Provide key software architecture expertise to cross-functional engineering and product teams.
• Help establish and adhere to DevOps practices that ensure that customer and satellite-operational needs are met with quality and performance.

Benefits

• Flexible Time Off, Sick, Family & Medical Leave
• Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, LTD, STD (employer funded)
• Vol Life, Critical Illness, Accidental, Hospital Indemnity, Pet Insurance (employee funded)
• 401k with 3% non-elective company contribution
• Stock Options
• Free parking in the building
• Free lunch in office daily

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Number of Employees: 101-250 employees