Dsp Engineer

Geon has spent 10 years building a reputation of excellence in developing RF sensors and capabilities for the United States Department of Defense and Intelligence Community.  We supply the commitment, experience, and technical excellence to take a customer’s vision and forge it into a deployed reality with high operational value.  We have recently been asked to develop two teams, two centers of excellence, for RF sensor and capability development.  One team will focus on rapid development for top priority signals intelligence initiatives.  The other team will require the same degree of excellence, dedication, and agility, but focus on RF cyber operations.
Geon is seeking applicants for an advanced, quick reaction development team for signals intelligence sensors and capabilities.  Successful applicants will join a team of 8 to 10 engineers that will be responsible for tackling top priority challenges that need solutions now.  We need telecommunications and digital signal processing engineers with advanced degrees and / or 14+ years experience demonstrating dedication, continuous learning, and technical excellence - in that order.  If you are a ham operator or RF hacker with the education and experience to develop capabilities for a broad range of existing and emerging communications, wireless, and tactical RF standards then this opportunity is for you.  If you are an experienced member of the signals intelligence capability development community but have always wanted to work with an agile and dedicated “A-team” then this opportunity is for you.   While this is predominantly a DMV-area “factory” for the highest priority quick reaction capabilities, you will sponsor your work from factory to test range to operational field site; wherever on, in, and around the globe that may be. 
Applicants must be confident of their ability to contribute to this high impact team and have a strong desire to be and work with people who only accept excellence in technical contribution, dedication, and operational delivery.
Education:

• Hold a bachelors, masters, or PhD in electrical engineering, math, physics, computer engineering, or related technical field.

Clearance:

• TS/SCI w/ poly

Experience:

• All applicants must demonstrate prior experience developing a processing capability against challenging wireless, satcom, and / or terrestrial radio technologies.
• Be able to demonstrate/communicate experience with the range of challenges involved in taking an off-the-shelf or custom-built software defined radio platform (SDR) and integrating it into diverse operational environments.
• Be capable of demonstrating a deep knowledge of the challenges associated with real- time signal processing on general purpose processors, graphics processors, embedded processors, and FPGAs.
• Have experience developing for a range of system scales from embedded to cloud distributed.
• Be conversant with DevOps practices as a means of securing rapid, continuous deployment of evolving capabilities - not interested in the buzz words, just the real practice that enables real deployment and real operations.
• Demonstrate expert proficiency with some framework for signal processing capability development such as GNURadio, XMidas, REDHAWK, or the variety of alternatives.

Skills:

• Lets face it, you need to be a MacGyver of signal processing capability and sensor development - be extraordinary at a few things, good at lots of things, and eager to acquire proficiency in all the rest of the things.  
• Of course you need C++ and Python and all the build, packaging, and optimization tools that go with it.  
• If you aren’t an expert with Linux (some flavor), don’t apply.
• We live in an age where the unit of capability is measured by a ‘container’ - you need to be knowledgeable regarding container technologies and the challenges of instantiating the highest performing signal processing capabilities in them / with them.
• Surprisingly, you must be able to keep engineering journals of your work as a means of low-drag communication / demonstration of you research, challenges, acquired learning, and progress for your customers as well as collaboration with your team. 
• Perhaps most surprising, you must be able to tell a “story”.  If you can’t receive a customer’s vision and tell them how you can achieve it or are achieving it, this job is not for you.  High performance teams see success and can organize it into actions and goals that can be convincingly communicated — the story!  This is your most important skill —other than being an amazing signal processing engineer.

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