Senior Signal Processing Engineer - - Cape Town City Centre

JOB DESCRIPTION

Implement and verify company-Mid correlator-beamformers and related signal processing systems.
Contribute to systems engineering and Operations documentation refinement
Support users, operators, as well as the implementation of releases, system changes and fixes.
Work with the Correlator Beamformer construction teams
Work with system/array integration team, supporting correlator integration and testing
Be an integral member of the company-Mid Computing and Software team, as a senior technical specialist that supports the establishment of company-Mid signal processing and correlator operations
Establish and maintain a professional relationship with company Digital Signal Processing team
Participate in project management and activity management activities.
Attend relevant training/courses to gain experience and improved knowledge.
Research new technologies, methods or approaches, with the purpose of utilizing them within the organization.
Participate in innovation and technology development initiatives.
Mentor and educate more junior engineers as and when required

JOB REQUIREMENTS
Qualification:

BTech/ BEng/ MTech/ Meng/ PHD in electronic engineering, Digital Signal Processing, Control systems, Computer Science, or such relevant qualifications

Experience:

BTech coupled with 13 years relevant working experience; or BEng/MTech coupled with 9 years relevant working experience; or
MEng coupled with 7 years relevant working experience; or PHD coupled with 5 years relevant working experience in Digital Signal Processing, FPGA design, development and verification, combined with software engineering, preferably in an engineering development project environment.
Experience with multirate DSP algorithms, including FFTs, FIR and IIR filters, DDS and DDCs and signal processing operational concepts such as data buffering, transposing and reordering
Experience in parallel, multirate DSP algorithm development and implementation, with experience in accelerating these implementations on FPGAs or general HPC (e.g. CPU/GPU)
Python, C/C++, MATLAB or Simulink programming and experience in development, testing, deployment, commissioning, release and support of projects
Specialization or leadership in one or more Required Job Knowledge areas
Mentoring junior engineers

Knowledge:

Common radio astronomy instrumentation: spectrometers, correlators, beamformers and pulsar timing machines and transient search machines.
Multi-rate and parallel implementations of Digital Signal Processing operations such as FFTs, Filters (FIR, IIR), DDS, DDCs.
Memory devices, such as SRAM/QDR, DDR-DRAM or HMC/HBM
Ethernet FPGA controller implementations.
Systems Engineering processes.
Ethernet network technologies and management of switches and routers.
Linux operating system and standard tools.
Practical experience configuring instrumentation, integrating and commissioning Digital Signal Processing systems * Willingness to transition between system development and system support and operations

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