Embedded Engineer, SoC Engineer

•     5+ years (7+ preferred) of hands-on embedded firmware and DSP development in C/C++ on a production SoC, baseband, or radar platform.

•     Direct experience with NXP DSP/baseband SoC platforms, for example Layerscape Access (LA-series) and/or the S32R automotive-radar processors, including vector-DSP (VSPA-class) signal-processing development.

•     Comfortable integrating and controlling a commercial RF or mmWave front-end IC from the digital side: configuring it over a control bus (SPI or I2C), driving beam-steering or phase settings, and managing the data and timing interface to a baseband processor. RF-literate enough to reason about link budget, SNR, EVM, and how the RF chain shapes the signal you process.

•     Solid radar or wireless signal-processing fundamentals: waveform design, correlation and matched filtering, channel, phase, and timing estimation, and angle-of-arrival.

•     Strong bare-metal and/or RTOS development, board bring-up, and hardware debug with logic analyzer, oscilloscope, and spectrum analyzer.

•     A builder who can take a subsystem from spec to working hardware with little supervision in a small, fast-moving team.

•     FPGA and RTL development (Verilog or VHDL) for high-speed interfaces, signal pre-processing, or glue logic.

•     Deeper mmWave RF background as a plus: front-end or antenna design and characterization, PLL/LO, PA/LNA, RF layout, or VNA measurement.

•     Experience integrating a sensor with a drone autopilot (PX4, ArduPilot, MAVLink).

•     A feel for integrity and fault-detection thinking, or other safety-relevant development practice.

•     Python or MATLAB for algorithm prototyping and bring-up analysis.

•     Practical familiarity with FCC Part 15 RF emissions and moving an RF product toward certification.

• You must be authorized to work in the United States for any employer, without current or future need for visa sponsorship by Zephyrs Ai. We are not able to provide or transfer visa sponsorship for this role.