▷ Urgent: FPGA DSP Engineer

4 weeks ago

Council of the City of Sydney, Australia DroneShield Group Pty Ltd Full time

Work with cutting edge technology, making the world a safer and more secure place. DroneShield (ASX:DRO) offers an opportunity to solve some of world’s most challenging technical problems in the Electronic Warfare, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, RF sensing, Sensor Fusion and distributed systems. Working with high profile customers across militaries, government agencies, airports, critical infrastructure, law enforcement and many others.

With one of the largest listed defence company market capitalisations in Australia and having raised approximately $250m in 2024 alone, DroneShield is undergoing hypergrowth stage, fuelled by rapidly increasing use of drones for nefarious applications, from battlefield, to terrorism, to contraband delivery and commercial espionage.

This role is in the DroneShield Sydney headquarters in Sydney CBD. There are approximately 300 staff based in the 4,000sqm facility today, scheduled to grow to approximately 400 staff by end of 2026. Overseas on the ground presence includes Virginia (USA), Denmark, Germany and Dubai, as well as distributors in over 70 countries globally.

About the role

DroneShield is seeking a FPGA DSP Engineer with relevant experience to join the team in Sydney, Australia.

The position will report to VP, Embedded Systems.The core challenge of the role is the development and expansion of our drone recognition and disruption algorithms using software-defined radios (SDRs). Implementing complex Digital Signal Processing algorithms into production grade firmware.

Responsibilities, Duties and Expectations

- The work is predominantly technical and requires an understanding of radio frequency (RF) concepts, FPGA and ARM processor development, digital signal processing, related hardware technology, test equipment and/or communication systems
- Research, scoping, design, development, and implementation of embedded software systems to support real-time wide frequency spectrum RF digital data signal processing
- Proprietary and open standard transmission protocol identification and data recovery
- Optimise the core of DroneShield’s technology for recognition, accuracy, performance, stability, and maintenance

Qualifications, Experience and Skills

- BS degree in Electronic Engineering, similar technical field of study or equivalent practical experience
- 3+ years of qualified experience working within an established team
- Strong experience with programming, debugging, and verifying Verilog, VHDL or SystemVerilog
- Strong FPGA development experience using FPGA software tools such as Vivado (preferable), Quartus, Vitis, etc
- Experience with designing and implementing high-throughput, low-latency and fully pipelined FPGA architectures
- Experience using and designing automated Verification and Validation frameworks
- Experience writing C/C++ firmware for FPGA modules along with familiarity with scripting languages (Python Preferable)
- Experience working in a Linux environment
- Experience working with PCB schematics, board bring-ups and debugging hardware is highly desirable
- A general RF background and knowledge of RF transmission protocols and general principals is desirable
- Strong background and experience in Digital Signal Processing is highly desirable
- Understanding or working knowledge of Machine Learning (ML) concepts within the scope of FPGA implementation would be ideal

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