Senior System Engineer

Scope:

D-Fend Solutions is a successful, fast-growing, startup located in Ra’anana. We are looking for an experienced system engineer to participate and lead the development of a radio-based drone detection and mitigation system as part of the company products.

Responsibilities:

• Lead features and platforms from ideas to releases.
• Guide and participate in the research and analysis of both proprietary and standard radio communication protocols.
• Define requirements and guide multi-disciplinary teams (SW, Algorithms, DSP, and FPGA) through implementation and debugging.
• Analyze and define complex system behaviors, state machines, algorithms, and event-response logic, including radio link budget considerations.
• Perform independent, hands-on debugging and optimization for system problem-solving using tools like MATLAB, Python, Excel, and other log analysis software.
• Create and maintain comprehensive system-level documentation.
• Gain a deep understanding of the full system to guide and support testing and validation teams, helping define methodologies, tools, and coverage strategies.

Requirements:

• B.Sc / M.Sc degree in Electrical Engineering or Computer Science from a recognized university.
• A minimum of 5 years of experience in radio-based systems, with at least 2 years in a role such as a communication systems engineer, communication algorithms engineer, RF engineer, or a firmware engineer focused on system-level issues.
• Hands-on experience in research and development of communication protocols, such as operating RF test equipment, activating sniffers and analyzing their LOGs, analyzing system LOGs.
• Hands-on experience in a scripting language, like Python, JavaScript or MATLAB.
• Deep understanding of multidisciplinary communication systems.
• Team player with excellent communication skills, ability to lead tasks within the company and the desire to take on diverse challenges.
• Advantage: Knowledge in common wireless protocols.