Posting Description

FIELD PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAYS (FPGA)/DIGITAL DESIGN ENGINEER, Haystack Observatory, to develop advanced radio-astronomy and radar data acquisition and signal-processing systems along with remote sensor systems.  Will engage with scientists to translate high-level requirements into working hardware and firmware designs, including end-to-end efforts to design systems involving high-speed signal processing.  Projects include digital back-ends for very long baseline interferometry (VLBI), advanced phased-array radar hardware, highly customized software radios, spectral-line processors, and low-power embedded developed sensors.  This will include efforts to develop new astronomical systems to support science measurements from a 37-m radio telescope.  Responsibilities include FPGA design and development of digital receivers, filters, and spectrometers, with data rates approaching terabits per second (Tb/s); translating concepts into working hardware and using the resulting systems in the field; helping write requirements and validation efforts for subsystems; contributing to project cost and time planning efforts; and other duties as assigned.