Senior RF/DSP Systems Engineer
Position title
Senior RF/DSP Systems Engineer
Reporting to
VP of Engineering
Direct reports
None
Candidate Experience and Skills Summary
A minimum of a bachelor’s degree in an area relevant to this position.
Demonstrated experience in RF/DSP systems design, particularly for satellite communications.
Demonstrated experienced in phased array system design.
Understanding of digital and analogue beamforming including control and calibration, beamformer weights, aperture tapering and nulling.
Detailed understanding of digital receiver communication blocks and digital signal processing techniques including linear filters, correlation and FFT’s.
Demonstrated experience and proficiency in programming, data manipulation, and visualisation using languages such as Python and C/C++.
Experience using Python and NumPy for DSP modelling.
Aptitude for system development, testing, integration, and verification in a collaborative environment under version control.
Purpose and Responsibilities of the Role
As a Senior RF/DSP Systems Engineer you will be part of a talented team of engineers designing and building Quasar’s Phased Array Ground Stations.
Quasar’s Phased Array Ground Stations are optimised for sub-zero operating conditions and are characterised by careful and efficient hardware system design, enabling cost effective and novel solutions to a growing infrastructure challenge posed by the expanding Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite market. The Senior RF/DSP Systems Engineer will be an integral member of the hardware design team with an aim to solve this challenge.
This will require you to:
Work closely with antenna, hardware, and signal processing engineers to optimize the receiver including digital beamformer.
Write software to simulate and model the RF and beamformed performance of the system.
Explore beamforming and spatial nulling techniques to maximize the G/T of the system.
Work closely with the hardware engineering team to design test plans and evaluate the performance of the system and compare it to the model.
Create simulation models for RF/circuit impairments for the receiver chain and quantify their impact on system performance.
Design, verify and test calibration and control algorithms.
Provide technical leadership and oversight on product architecture, component specifications, block level interfaces as well as verification and validation.
We offer you:
An exciting technical project with scope to collaborate with research groups and work on emerging technology.
An opportunity to join a young team and shape/influence hardware design direction.
Opportunity to grow and develop new skills as part of a truly multi-disciplinary hardware team.
An opportunity to become an early integral member in the Australian space industry.
Technical and industry training where it is needed.
A team where people are prioritised and work satisfaction and happiness is of utmost importance.
Company Background
Quasar Satellite Technologies is revolutionising global satellite to ground station communications by bringing to market an exciting new Australian technology from CSIRO and its other industry founders.
Quasar’s Ground Station as a Service (GSaaS) delivering Space Data as a Service (SDaaS) will exploit its world-leading radio antenna and applications technology to greatly increase the capacity and reduce the cost of communicating with satellites and spacecraft in Low, Medium and Geostationary orbits.
Quasar is an equal opportunity employer that empowers its people.
Contact
Please drop a line and your CV at Info@quasarsat.com