2 months ago
Woburn, MA, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$157k - $223k/yr
Responsibilities
- Understand capability requirements, brainstorm and evaluate technical solutions, and inform system design decisions.
- Develop and implement embedded systems software for advanced real-time signal processing applications.
- Design, implement, and test systems software for sonar, radar, and electronic warfare systems.
- Support over-the-air testing, customer meetings, data collections, and experiments, with potential travel to customer and government test locations.
Requirements
- Ability to obtain a Top Secret security clearance and support special access programs; U.S. citizenship is required for the clearance.
- BS, MS, or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Applied Mathematics, Physics, or a related technical discipline, with 5–7+ years of experience depending on degree.
- Experience with GNU/Linux toolchains and open source software.
- Proficiency in C, C++, or similar real-time embedded programming languages, plus comfort with Python and/or MATLAB.
- Experience with firmware languages such as VHDL and/or Verilog.
- Experience using IDEs, version control, tracking, scripting, and breakpoint debugging tools.
- Working knowledge of software design patterns, software best practices, and software-hardware interfacing techniques.
- Preferred qualifications include active Secret or TS/SCI clearance, Linux kernel modules and device-driver development, real-time multithreaded embedded software, large multi-party codebases, laboratory measurement equipment, quantitative data analysis, GPUs, DSPs, FPGAs, Xilinx MPSoC or RFSoC systems, machine learning, and real-time signal-processing optimization.
Benefits
- Full-time role with potential travel to customer meetings, government test locations, data collections, and experiments.
- Collaborative learning environment with opportunities to work with research engineers, academic researchers, and industry partners.
About STR
STR develops cyber, electronic warfare, sensing, and AI/ML systems and analytics for U.S. defense and intelligence customers, delivering R&D services, prototypes, and fielded capabilities. The privately held, employee-owned company was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in Woburn, Massachusetts, with sites near Boston, Arlington (VA), Dayton (OH), Melbourne (FL), and Carlsbad (CA). Work spans RF, sonar, radar, command-and-control, and ISR, including subsea sensors and signal processing.