Digital Communications Engineer 14671

Poway, CA 92128

Posted: 07/01/2025 Employment Type: Contract Industry: Engineering Job Number: BBBH84813_1751392500 Pay Rate: Up to US$180 per hour

Job Description


Job Title: Digital Communications Engineer

Job Location: San Diego California 92128

Onsite Requirements:

  • FPGA
  • Waveform development
  • Software defined radio

Job Description:
  • Looking for Digital Communications Engineers to support our Systems Engineering Integration & Test (SEIT) department.
  • As a member of the SEIT department you'll work in a fast-paced team environment alongside other engineers with a wide array of technical skills to make our technologies a reality.
  • Our Advanced Digital Engineering group creates the next generation of communications and signal processing systems and will take ideas from concept to working systems aboard the world's most advanced platforms.
  • We bring design to life in our San Diego labs and have on-site advanced manufacturing just minutes from the beach Southern California is famous for.
  • As a Digital Communications Engineer at Client, you will have an opportunity to be a part of an organization that is collaborative, open, transparent, and team-oriented with a focus on team empowerment & shared responsibility, flexibility, continuous learning, and a culture of automation.
  • This position will serve on-site at our Emerging Capabilities Development group in San Diego, CA.

Responsibilities:
  • Responsible for research, design, and development for digital designs associated with multi-function software defined radios, as well as automated test equipment
  • Work with evaluation boards to test proposed designs
  • Support the implementation of digital FPGA hardware architecture and algorithms
  • Collaborate with Systems Engineering to ensure firmware design meets system level requirements
  • Review designs and analysis
  • Proven ability to drive complex technical problems to closure
  • Proven ability to lead product delivery
  • May lead a team of technical engineers

Basic Qualifications:
  • 12 Years with Bachelors Degree in Electrical, Computer or related Engineering discipline with specialty in Digital Communications;10 Years with Masters;8 Years with PhD.
  • Experience in the design and development of digital communications systems including modulation, signal & receiver design, noise processes, detection, equalization, coding, synchronization, and multi-access communications
  • Experience in Link budget development, modeling, and testing
  • Matlab and Simulink modeling of digital comms systems and algorithms experience
  • Hands-on experience in Digital Communications within the last 3 years
  • Experience with leading teams through product implementation or demonstration
  • Clearance: Ability to obtain and maintain a DoD SECRET clearance is required.

Preferred Qualifications:
  • Optimization of Matlab or Simulink code generated HDL and porting to FPGAs or ASICs
  • Open air and/or flight testing of advanced communication systems
  • Active/Current DoD Top Secret Clearance with SCI
  • Experience with Military Waveforms
  • Waveform Algorithm Design and Decomposition
  • Waveform ASIC Development

  • **3rd party and subcontract staffing agencies are not eligible for partnership on this position. 3rd party subcontractors need not apply.
  • This position requires candidates to be eligible to work in the United States, directly for an employer, without sponsorship now or anytime in the future.
  • This client is a US Federal Government contractor and is legally required to hire US Citizens. US Citizens will only be considered for this role.
  • Due to the nature of the work, a United States Government Clearance is required to be eligible for the position**
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