Signal Processing Engineer - Cape Town, South Africa - Kamo Placements

Description

• Implement and verify company-Mid correlator-beamformers and related signal processing systems.
• Assist in systems engineering and Operations documentation refinement
• Support users, operators, as well as the implementation of releases, system changes and fixes.
• Work with the Correlator Beamformer construction teams
• Work with system/array integration team, supporting correlator integration and testing
• Be an integral member of the company-Mid Computing and Software team, as a senior technical specialist that supports the establishment of company-Mid signal processing and correlator operations
• Establish and maintain a professional relationship with company Digital Signal Processing team.
• Participate in project management and activity management activities
• Attend relevant training/courses to gain experience and improved knowledge.
• Research new technologies, methods or approaches, with the purpose of utilizing them within the organization.
• Participate in innovation and technology development initiatives.
• Acquire further education, mentorship and expertise as necessary

• BTech/ BEng/ MTech/Meng/ PHD in electronic engineering, Digital Signal Processing, Control systems, Computer Science, or such relevant qualifications

• BTech coupled with 6 years relevant working experience; or BEng/ MTech coupled with 4 years relevant working experience; or
• MEng coupled with 3 years relevant working experience; or PHD coupled with 1 year relevant working experience in Digital Signal Processing, FPGA design, development and verification, combined with software engineering, preferably in an engineering development project environment.
• Experience with multirate DSP algorithms, including FFTs, FIR and IIR filters, DDS and DDCs and signal processing operational concepts such as data buffering, transposing and reordering
• Experience in parallel, multirate DSP algorithm development and implementation, with experience in accelerating these implementations on FPGAs or general HPC (e.g. CPU/GPU)
• Python, C/C++, MATLAB or Simulink programming and experience in development, testing, deployment, commissioning, release and support of projects
• Specialization or leadership in one or more Required Job Knowledge areas
• Mentoring junior engineers

• Common radio astronomy instrumentation: spectrometers, correlators, beamformers and pulsar timing machines and transient search machines.
• Multi-rate and parallel implementations of Digital Signal Processing operations such as FFTs, Filters (FIR, IIR), DDS, DDCs. * Memory devices, such as SRAM/QDR, DDR-DRAM or HMC/HBM
• Ethernet FPGA controller implementations.
• Systems Engineering processes.
• Ethernet network technologies and management of switches and routers.
• Linux operating system and standard tools.
• Practical experience configuring instrumentation, integrating and commissioning Digital Signal Processing systems * Willingness to transition between system development and system support and operations