# Staff Digital Signal Processing Engineer

We are seeking a highly skilled Staff DSP Engineer to lead the development, implementation, and verification of advanced signal-processing algorithms for high-performance communication systems as part of Impulse’s next generation of space vehicles. The ideal candidate will have strong theoretical DSP knowledge, practical fixed-point implementation experience, and hands-on hardware integration skills. Responsibilities Design, implement, and optimize DSP algorithms for advanced communication systems Develop and refine symbol timing recovery, carrier recovery, and equalization algorithms Perform fixed-point modeling, quantization analysis, and algorithm optimization for hardware deployment Use MATLAB and Simulink for modeling, simulation, and verification of DSP processing chains Collaborate closely with FPGA design teams to translate algorithms into hardware-efficient architectures Support development of hardware architectures, including data-path specification and resource balancing Participate in lab integration, system bring-up, and debugging of DSP and FPGA subsystems Analyze system performance and propose enhancements for robustness, efficiency, and scalability Minimum Qualific

- **Id**: 3904995
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/impulse-space-staff-digital-signal-processing-engineer-2>
- **Role**: Hardware
- **Role family**: Hardware
- **Seniority**: staff
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Redondo Beach, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: yes
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-06T02:35:36Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-06
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-08T11:27:55Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 2
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 3933
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Equity, Retirement plans, Stock options
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Space Services

## Company

- **Id**: 58617
- **Name**: Impulse Space
- **Domain**: impulsespace.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/impulse-space>
- **Size band**: 201-500
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Pinpoint

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 100
- **Open postings**: 6
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 27
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-08T05:47:12Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 145000
- **Max**: 185000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 185000

## Technologies

- **MATLAB** — Optional: no
- **Quantization** — Optional: no
- **Simulink** — Optional: no
- **HDL Coder** — Optional: yes
- **Verilog** — Optional: yes
- **VHDL** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 2

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: yes

### Education

- **Level**: master
- **Optional**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-07T02:35:36Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 90
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.903
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 2
- **Expected fill days**: 27
- **Reasons**: conf:2, velocity, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-08T05:47:12Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 185000
- **Is top pay**: no

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