The Satellite Applications Catapult is at the heart of the satellite services revolution, driving take-up of space technology and applications to shape, and sustain, the world of tomorrow. We’re driven by how our actions help the organisations we work with, both large and small, bring new services to market. By connecting industry and academia we get new research off the ground and into the market more quickly.

What sort of work would you be involved in?

As a DSP design engineer, you will join a high-performance R&D team.  Our team is a key part of SAC’s central research and development organisation. Our team helps research, create, validate, and implement technology involving Satcom industry-leading technology in a highly collaborative development environment. 

Key Responsibilities

• Creating digital signal processing solutions (DSP), including the use of tools for simulation and coding

• Dependent on experience, supervise a small team, taking responsibility for planning and managing the workload for both you and the team, ensuring robust engineering solutions are in place.

• Documenting various aspects of the projects at different stages.

• Understanding project plans and helping the relevant project manager to implement it.

• Working with external stakeholders, such as customers, suppliers, consortium partners etc

• Full hardware lifecycle for customer’s (or Stake holder’s) products: From system concept, through detailed design and prototyping, test and verification, system integration and support in production.

• Support and work with consortium partners, documentation, manage small projects, willingness to travel

Skills and Experience required:

• Strong experience with DSP and digital communication theory and implementation, including modulation, synchronization, error correction, etc.

• Experience with software-defined radios (SDR).

• Proficiency with programming development platforms

• Knowledge and experience in Satellite communications systems (e.g. MODCOD, link budget, impairments) and protocols (e.g., DVB-S2(X), CCSDS)

• Bachelor’s (or higher) degree in Electronics / Systems engineering or equivalent and a background with an emphasis in DSP designs

• Relevant and demonstratable Satcom/ cellular network experience.

• Signal processing software development: OpenCL, CUDA, Python, MATLAB (RF tools and coders), Simulink, GNU Radio

• Experience in programming using C/C++/Python

• Self-motivated, quick-learner, and excellent analytical skills coupled with strong teamwork and interpersonal skills

• Must be flexible, adaptable, and eager to push technical boundaries

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Other useful but not essential attributes:

• Knowledge of electronic test and measurement equipment

• Ability to perform Field trials

How we work

We strive to create a high trust environment that enables team members to bring their whole selves to work – this helps to create the foundations of an innovation culture.
Our shared values are critical to this:

• We care - for our people, our partners, and our planet

• We connect - and engage with people and ideas

• We learn - and grow, as people and as an industry

Underpinning this is our belief in great teams, our combined efforts will always deliver outcomes beyond that of any individual providing we are honest through debate, experiment and reflect, and create shared resolutions in support of our purpose. Live these values, work to our principles, take ownership to deliver, and we are certain you will thrive with us.

This job description set outs the skills and experience we believe are needed to be able to do this job but, research also tells us women are much more likely than men to take this list of requirements as absolute and self-select out of the process. If you think you can deliver this role then we want to hear from you, regardless of the boxes you didn’t tick.