DSP Optimization Engineer
First seen by Alion on Sep 10, 2026.
Role Overview:
We are looking for a DSP Optimization Engineer with strong experience in Embedded C, DSP algorithm optimization, and VLIW/SIMD architectures. The role involves developing and optimizing DSP software, improving execution efficiency, identifying performance bottlenecks, and supporting system-level integration.
Responsibilities:
- Design, develop, and optimize DSP software and algorithms using Embedded C.
- Optimize DSP algorithms for VLIW and SIMD architectures to improve execution efficiency and throughput.
- Analyze application performance and identify CPU, memory, latency, and execution bottlenecks.
- Perform low-level debugging, profiling, performance analysis, and optimization of embedded DSP applications.
- Optimize code for instruction-level parallelism, vector processing, memory access, and computational efficiency.
- Work with DMA and memory-management mechanisms to optimize data movement and processing performance.
- Support integration of optimized DSP components into embedded systems and applications.
- Collaborate with hardware, firmware, algorithm, and system teams to resolve performance and integration issues.
- Conduct performance benchmarking and validate optimizations against system and application requirements.
- Troubleshoot complex runtime, functional, and performance issues in embedded environments.
Required Skills:
- 3 - 6 years of experience in DSP software development, embedded systems, or embedded software optimization.
- Strong hands-on programming experience in Embedded C.
- Strong understanding of DSP algorithms and optimization techniques.
- Hands-on experience with VLIW and SIMD architectures.
- Experience with low-level debugging, profiling, performance analysis, and bottleneck identification.
- Understanding of DMA, memory architecture, cache, and data movement optimization.
- Experience with embedded software development and system integration.
- Knowledge of C++ is preferred.
- Experience with Qualcomm Hexagon DSP / HVX optimization is preferred.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
Total Experience: 3 - 6 years
Skills
Embedded System, C, DSP, Embedded C, Memory Management