Senior Software Engineer - Architecture & Systems Design

Job Title: Senior Software Engineer - Architecture & Systems Design

Job Category: Engineering

Time Type: Full time

Minimum Clearance Required to Start: None

Employee Type: Regular

Percentage of Travel Required: None

Type of Travel: None

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The Opportunity:

• Design, architect, and implement complex embedded RF systems as part of a multi-disciplinary team working on specialized tools, sensors, and communications devices for demanding applications
• Contribute to software architecture decisions for inter-processor and microservice systems where your technical choices directly impact system performance, real-time behavior, and the ability to process high-rate RF data in resource-constrained environments
• Work with engineers across the full embedded system stack—from signal processing algorithms to FPGA fabric, from application layer to hardware interfaces
• Own technical design from initial architecture through production deployment, making practical trade-offs between competing constraints like schedule, performance, portability, and maintainability

Responsibilities:

• Design distributed software architectures spanning multiple processing domains (x86, ARM, FPGA fabric), defining communication patterns and data flows for real-time RF signal processing systems
• Develop high-performance C++ frameworks for inter-processor communication in systems where latency and throughput are critical constraints
• Create technical documentation including message sequence charts, UML class diagrams, and software architecture specifications that enable distributed teams to build complex systems correctly and efficiently
• Design microservice architectures for x86 and ARM platforms, balancing modularity, performance, and resource constraints
• Profile and optimize software for memory-bound and compute-bound workloads using tools like vTune, identifying bottlenecks and implementing measurable performance improvements
• Work with signal processing engineers to design data pipelines that move RF samples from ADCs through filters, demodulators, and decoders
• Develop debugging approaches for resource-constrained embedded systems where standard tools provide limited visibility
• Build C++/Python test harnesses and unit tests that generate representative workloads, validate system behavior, and verify edge cases
• Integrate modern development tools and practices including CI/CD pipelines, containerization, and build automation
• Collaborate with FPGA engineers to define hardware/software interfaces that leverage programmable logic capabilities while maintaining software flexibility

Qualifications:
Required: 

• 5-7+ years of professional software engineering experience in embedded systems and/or high-performance computing in Linux based environments
• BS or MS in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field
• Strong proficiency in C++ development for embedded real-time systems, including concurrency, memory management, and optimization techniques
• Demonstrated experience designing and implementing software architectures and communicating technical concepts through documentation and diagrams
• Experience with multi-threaded application development and debugging concurrency issues, including race conditions in inter-processor and microservice architectures
• Working knowledge of software design patterns and development methodologies for complex systems
• Experience with modern build systems and DevOps tools (Conan, Docker, GitLab or similar)
• Experience with performance analysis and debugging tools (vTune, perf, gdb, valgrind, or similar) to identify and optimize bottlenecks
• Ability to make informed trade-offs between portability, performance, and architecture-specific optimizations
• Must be a US Citizen

Desired:

• Experience with communications systems and digital signal processing, including filters, modulation/demodulation schemes, channel equalization, and forward error correction (FEC)
• Experience with wireless communications protocols (3GPP, IEEE 802.11, IEEE 802.15)
• Understanding of the signal processing pipeline from RF data collection through digital processing

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