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Pushing the boundaries of technology on a mission to change the world for the better from space.\n The Senior Staff DSP Engineer serves as a senior technical leader responsible for defining and advancing Digital Signal Processing (DSP) solutions across complex programs and technical initiatives. This position provides strategic technical direction, leads the resolution of highly complex engineering challenges, and helps establish DSP methodologies, architectures, and best practices across the organization.\nThe candidate will have expert-level knowledge of Digital Signal Processing concepts, including RF communications, synchronization, and high-speed ADC and DAC systems, with demonstrated experience translating advanced DSP concepts into practical hardware solutions.\nThe candidate will have extensive experience developing and implementing DSP algorithms in hardware, including:\nAlgorithm prototyping and analysis using MATLAB or similar tools.\nDetermining precision, dynamic range, performance, and implementation tradeoffs.\nAlgorithm validation using hardware co-simulation, C/C++ bit-true modeling, or similar techniques.\nFPGA and/or ASIC implementation using Verilog, VHDL, or comparable hardware description languages.\nEvaluating system architectures and conducting complex technical trade studies.\nIdentifying and introducing advanced DSP technologies, methodologies, and design approaches.\nThe Senior Staff DSP Engineer will provide technical leadership throughout all phases of the engineering lifecycle, including system architecture, requirements development, algorithm exploration, trade studies, design reviews, implementation, integration, laboratory verification, troubleshooting, and delivery.\nThis position is expected to influence DSP technical direction across multiple projects and programs, ensuring engineering solutions align with broader technical and business objectives. The Senior Staff DSP Engineer will identify significant technical risks and opportunities, recommend solutions to engineering and organizational leadership, and provide technical guidance on critical program and technology decisions.\nThe candidate will serve as a technical mentor to DSP engineers and other senior technical contributors, providing technical oversight, developing engineering capabilities, and helping establish consistent DSP engineering practices across the organization.\nThe candidate must demonstrate the ability to operate with a high degree of technical independence and judgment while collaborating effectively with engineering leadership, program teams, customers, and other technical disciplines.\nStrong written and verbal communication skills are required, including the ability to communicate complex technical concepts, recommendations, risks, and tradeoffs to technical teams, customers, program leadership, and senior management.\n Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or a related technical discipline with at least 12 years of relevant engineering experience; Master's degree preferred.\nExtensive experience in Digital Signal Processing architecture, algorithm development, implementation, integration, and verification.\nDemonstrated experience providing technical leadership on complex DSP systems and/or across multiple engineering programs.\nDemonstrated ability to independently resolve highly complex technical challenges and make decisions with significant program or organizational impact.\nExperience developing and implementing DSP algorithms in FPGA and/or ASIC hardware.\nDemonstrated experience leading technical trade studies, design reviews, architecture decisions, and technical risk resolution.\nExperience mentoring senior engineers and providing technical leadership and oversight to engineering teams.\nAbility to influence technical decisions across engineering disciplines, programs, and organizational leadership.\nStrong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to effectively communicate with customers and senior leadership.\nDesired Experience\nExperience in one or more of the following areas is desired:\nImage Processing\nSoftware Defined Radio\nChannelization/Reconstruction\nArray Processing\nRadar\nAI Engines\nAdvanced RF communications systems\nHigh-speed ADC/DAC architectures\nActive TS security clearance is a plus.\nCompensation: Base salary range is $180,000-230,000/year, depending on qualifications. 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SEAKR offers a variety of paid leave, such as vacation, sick, bereavement, and FMLA.\nSEAKR is an Equal Opportunity Employer - All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.\nUS Citizenship Required\nApplications will be accepted until 10/29/26.","description_format":"text","description_chars":4934,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":12,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":false},"security_clearance":true,"languages":[{"language":"English","level":"All levels","optional":false}]},"benefits":["Retirement plans","Vision insurance"],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United States","iso":"US","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Satellite Manufacturing","Military Satellites"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-29T16:13:44Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":31,"band":"fade","label":"Fading","p_open":1,"p_active":0.695,"p_room":0.45,"age_days":22,"expected_fill_days":14,"reasons":["conf:1","velocity","win:tail"],"computed_at":"2026-10-22T06:10:10Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":230000,"is_top_pay":false},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/seakr-engineering-senior-staff-dsp-engineer","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/seakr-engineering-senior-staff-dsp-engineer.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-23T00:16:56Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":413,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":8281},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=8281"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fseakr-engineering-senior-staff-dsp-engineer"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fseakr-engineering-senior-staff-dsp-engineer"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fseakr-engineering-senior-staff-dsp-engineer"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/seakr-engineering-senior-staff-dsp-engineer\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fseakr-engineering-senior-staff-dsp-engineer"}]}