Senior Software Engineer: Digital Signal Processing (DSP) at Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR)

Key responsibilities:

• Develop cutting edge real-time software;
• Push the boundaries of current technology in processing throughput;
• Be part of a team developing breakthrough radar technology in South Africa, set for deployment in the global defence market;
• Develop high-performance systems that challenge the limits of radar and system design;
• Engineer groundbreaking solutions at the heart of next-generation radar systems.

Qualifications, skills and experience:

• A Bachelor of Engineering degree in electronic or computer engineering with at least five years’ experience; OR
• A Master’s degree in electronic or computer engineering with at least three years’ experience;

Experience in the following is required:

• Digital Signal Processing;
• C++ (preferably, otherwise C or C#), and Python;
• Data structures, algorithms, concurrency, and code optimization;
• GIT Version Control and CI/CD tools;
• Linux development environments;
• Understanding of how networks work.

Experience in the following will be advantageous;

• Modern C++ standards and libraries;
• Object-oriented programming;
• GPGPU programming (CUDA);
• Control system development;
• Data acquisition;
• Radar, Communications or Electronic Warfare signal processing
• UI/UX development (e.g. in Qt);
• Embedded systems;
• Production software environments;
• End-to-end lifecycle of software development.
• High ownership and autonomy across the end-to-end lifecycle of software development.
• Ability to quickly understand and navigate complex systems and established code bases.