Signals Software Engineer

At Wyetech, you’ll be at the center of an award-winning corporate culture, breaking technological barriers and solving real-world problems for our federal government customers. We are committed to hiring the best of the best, and in return, we offer a world-class, truly unique employee experience that is rare within our industry.

Job Responsibilities

• Develop, maintain, and enhance signal processing software (e.g. detectors, demodulators, protocol processors).
• Work individually or as part of a team.
• Review and test software components for adherence to design requirements and document test results.
• Resolve software problem reports.
• Utilize software development and design methodologies appropriate to the development environment.
• Provide specific input to software components of system design including hardware/software trade-offs.
• Analyze and synthesize requirements from system level to individual software components.

Due to federal contract requirements, United States Citizenship and position appropriate security clearance is required (e.g. Active TS/SCI security clearance with agency appropriate polygraph).

Capabilities

• Analyze user requirements to derive software design and performance requirements.
• Design and code new software or modify existing software to add new features.
• Debug existing software and correct defects.
• Describe various signal processing techniques.
• Identify various digital modulation techniques.
• Integrate existing software into new or modified system or operating environments.
• Provide recommendations for improving documentation and software development process standards.
• Develop/implement algorithms to meet system performance and functional standards.
• Assist with developing and executing test procedures for software components.
• Write/review software and system documentation.
• Develop software solutions, confer with user or system engineers.
• Analyze systems flow, data usage, and work process.
• Investigate problem areas.
• Serve as team lead at the level appropriate to the software development process being used on any particular project.
• Modify existing software to correct errors, adapt to new hardware, or improve performance.
• Design, develop, and modify software systems using scientific analysis and mathematical models.
• Use signal processing algorithms to convert a signal.
• Design signal processing software based on sparse documentation.
• Lead one or more software development teams and ensure work is completed in accordance with the constraints of the software development process.
• Design/implement complex signal processing algorithms requiring adherence to strict timing, system resource, or interface constraints.
• Perform quality control on products.
• Write software using C++, Java; suggest languages as needed to solve problems.
• Advanced understanding of the Linux operating system.
• Confer with system engineers and software engineers to derive software requirements and obtain information on project limitations and capabilities.
• Develop and maintain software framework to enable efficient processing of data.
• Identify the source of problems in a Radio Frequency (RF) processing system and associated systems in an enterprise architecture.
• Implement recommendations for improving documentation and software development process standards.

Required Qualifications

• TS/SCI with agency appropriate polygraph.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related discipline from an accredited college or university is required.
• At least seven (7) years' experience as a SSWE or equivalent on a project with a focus on Radio Frequency (RF).
• Experience with Fourier transforms, filtering, communications theory, digital modulation, error control coding, signals analysis tools (e.g. WVT, DVT), and digital signal processing (e.g. adaptive beamforming/filtering, demodulation).
• Four (4) years of additional SSWE or equivalent experience on projects with similar software processes may be substituted for a bachelor’s degree.

Required Technical Skills

• Software defined radio architecture (e.g. SCA, REDHAWK, or GNU).
• Commercial wireless standards geolocation techniques.
• Software configuration management tools (e.g. GIT, Clearquest, Trac, or Subversion).
• Python, Eclipse IDE, Google Protocol Buffer, model-based design (e.g. Matlab, Simulink).
• Service oriented architecture, and Linux OS.

The Benefits Package

Wyetech believes in generously supporting employees as they prepare for retirement. The company automatically contributes 20% of each employee's gross compensation to a Simplified Employee Pension (SEP) IRA, with no requirement for employee matching. All contributions are fully vested from day one, ensuring immediate ownership of retirement funds.

Additional Benefits Include:

• A generous PTO plan of up to 200 hours annually, aligned with applicable state leave regulations.
• Flexibility to adjust PTO allocation at the start of each calendar year.
• Option to participate in a variety of voluntary benefit plans including:
• A Choice of Medical Plan Options, some with Health Savings Account (HSA).
• Vision and Dental Life and AD&D Benefits.
• Short and Long-Term Disability.
• Hospital Indemnity, Accident, and Critical Illness Insurances.
• Optional Identity Theft and Legal Protection Services.

Company Environment & Perks

• Employee Referral Bonus Eligibility up to $10,000.
• Mobility Among Wyetech-supported Contracts.
• Various contract and work locations throughout Maryland, Virginia, Colorado, Texas, Utah, Alaska, Hawaii and OCONUS.
• Various team-building events throughout the year such as: monthly lunches, summer company picnic, and an annual holiday party.
• Employees receive two complementary branded clothing orders annually.