Research Scientist- Signal Processing
Berwyn Heights, MD

Job Description

Overview:

Every day at Perspecta, we enable hundreds of thousands of people to take on our nation's most important work. We're a company founded on a diverse set of capabilities and skills, bound together by a single promise: we never stop solving our nation's most complex challenges. Our team of engineers, analysts, developers, investigators, integrators and architects work tirelessly to create innovative solutions. We continually push ourselves-to respond, to adapt, to go further. To look ahead to the changing landscape and develop new and innovative ways to serve our customers.

Perspecta works with U.S. government customers in defense, intelligence, civilian, health care, and state and local markets. Our high-caliber employees are rewarded in many ways-not only through competitive salaries and benefits packages, but the opportunity to create a meaningful impact in jobs and on projects that matter.

Perspecta's talented and robust workforce-14,000 strong-stands ready to welcome you to the team. Let's make an impact together.

Perspecta is an AA/EEO Employer - Minorities/Women/Veterans/Disabled and other protected categories

Responsibilities:

We collect radio frequency information from sensors and present it to end users in a format meet the analysis needs of end users. Develop signal-processing algorithms for RF sensing and communications applications. Algorithm development will be for both real-time applications on embedded processors and non-real-time applications operating on stored data. Algorithmic areas of interest include signal detection, classification, geolocation, (direct finding and time-difference-of arrival techniques, e.g) on both multi-antenna single platforms and distributed RF platforms.

Qualifications:

Requires 8 to 10 years with BS/BA or 6 to 8 years with MS/MA or 3 to 5 years with PhD.

* Prefers Masters or PHD in signal processing
* Familiarity with Python and/or Matlab for signal processing applications
* Signal processing algorithm development experience
* Understanding of distributed sensor fusion a plus
* US. Citizen with a current security clearance of SECRET or above, or the ability to obtain a security clearance