DSP/Communications Engineer
📌California, United States 🇺🇸
⏱︎ full-time
🧙♂️ mid-level
💰 130000
on-site
Full-time - On-site
Burlingame, CA
Company Overview:
Our client is developing a next-generation navigation satellite network designed to enable precision technologies such as robotic farming and hands-free driving at a global scale. Their patented PULSAR network simplifies the complexity required to achieve robust, centimeter-level accuracy, making precision navigation accessible and affordable for industries that rely on automation and autonomy.
Position Summary:
As a DSP/Communications Engineer, you will own the RF signals link between Xona’s next-generation LEO constellation satellites and ground receivers. Your role will involve communications link simulations, link budgets, and low-level signal metrics, driving implementation details throughout the hardware/firmware stack to ensure Xona’s high-precision and high-accuracy GNSS service.
This is a hands-on role requiring expertise in digital signal processing, RF communications, and signal simulations. The ideal candidate will play a key role in ensuring the integrity and performance of Xona’s satellite communications system.
Primary Duties and Responsibilities:
- Design and implement signal processing and communications systems for satellite navigation.
- Conduct RF communications prototyping using tools such as GNU Radio or Simulink.
- Simulate RF communications links, including modeling signal distortions and interference.
- Develop and maintain RF link budgets to distill hardware and firmware requirements.
- Analyze and interpret RF measurements, assessing performance against design criteria.
- Implement and optimize spread-spectrum signals and digital modulation schemes such as QPSK.
- Utilize Python and C/C++ for signal processing development.
- Collaborate with hardware and software teams to refine system architecture and performance.
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Support off-site testing events and provide technical expertise as needed.
- 3 - 6 years of experience in signal processing and communications.
- Hands-on experience with RF communications prototyping.
- Proficiency in simulating RF links, including modeling distortions.
- Strong understanding of spread-spectrum signals and digital modulation techniques.
- Experience developing and maintaining RF link budgets.
- Knowledge of key RF performance metrics and their impact on system design.
- Fluency in Python and C/C++ for signal processing applications.
- Familiarity with git/gitflow for version control.
- Ability to travel as needed to support testing events.
- Self-starter with a proactive approach to problem-solving.
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Strong communication skills and ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.
- Experience with satellite communications.
- Hands-on experience with electrical/RF test equipment such as oscilloscopes and spectrum analyzers.
- Lab experience with RF test setups for communications measurements.
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Knowledge and experience with GNSS systems.
Senior Embedded Software Engineer
@ Embedd 
What we're looking for
At embedd.it, we power hardware-software integration in embedded devices. We turn fragmented semiconductor chip data into configurable digital twins, then deterministically generate code, tests, and documentation – making integration faster, cheaper, and resilient to supply chain shocks.
We’re looking for a true legend – someone with abstract thinking and deep expertise in low-level software development. You’ll build vendor-agnostic tooling for MCU and peripheral integration to solve hardware-software integration once and for all. We work at the intersection of embedded systems, code generation, compilers, and machine learning. It’s your chance to help redefine how low-level development is done.
Responsibilities
- Drive the architecture of the driver structures and system layout
- Define scalable patterns for cross-architectural integration across bare-metal, Zephyr, Linux, and other environments
- Deconstruct complex SoC device trees and translate hardware descriptions into structured internal models for automated reasoning
- Partner with the ML team to shape data and annotation models for AI-driven data-extraction tooling
Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience in embedded systems development, including bare-metal and RTOS-based systems
- Proficiency in C/C++
- Familiarity with firmware configuration, SoC bring-up, and system-level debugging
- Hands-on experience with code generation tools, or low-level compiler/decompiler/emulator technologies
- Strong background in embedded toolchains: compilers, linkers, debuggers, and build systems
- Python or scripting for automation and tooling is a plus
- Experience with functional-safety standards is a plus
Why embedd.it?
- Dynamic, venture-backed team of engineers challenging the status quo 🚀
- Work at the intersection of embedded systems, code generators, compilers, and ML 🤖
- Unusual challenges requiring out-of-the-box abstract thinking 🧠
- Competitive compensation: cash + equity 💰
- Remote work possible 🌍
About Us
embedd.it is a UK-based startup reinventing embedded development. Our platform transforms unstructured semiconductor data into structured digital twins, enabling automatic generation of drivers, tests, and documentation. We're building a single, traceable source of truth to make integration fast, vendor-agnostic, and future-proof.
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