- 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
However, please keep a lookout on our website, www.sixsense.co.za for available positions which may be inline with your career aspirations.
