Senior Embedded RF Systems Engineer (Able to obtain a Clearance)

Riverside Research is an independent National Security Nonprofit dedicated to research and development in the national interest. With revenues of $125M+, and a staff of more than 630, Riverside Research provides high-end technical services, research and development, and prototype solutions to some of the country's most challenging technical problems. Riverside Research also supports advanced technical education and collaborates widely with university researchers. The company was formed from a respected research laboratory at Columbia University and has a current focus on technical areas including Radar systems, Optics and Photonics, Electromagnetics, Plasma physics, Geoint, Masint, Systems Engineering, and Modeling & Simulation. Riverside Research's open innovation R&D model encourages both internal and external collaboration to accelerate innovation, advance science, and expand market opportunities. In 2015, Riverside Research expanded its facility in Dayton, OH, adding a 30,000 square-foot Open Innovation Center (OIC). The OIC is a collaborative R&D environment that fosters creativity, synergy, and ultimately delivers innovative solutions to current and anticipated challenges. The OIC sets the standard for collaborative innovation and is dedicated to promoting research across the company. Riverside Research has additional research facilities in Boston, MA; New York, NY; Centreville, VA; and Champaign, IL.

• Develop a variety of critical elements for the RFSoC / FPGA designs associated with networking and signal processing aspects of the IRAD project
• Create FPGA and RFSoC Gen I/III firmware to process Ethernet and SyncE networked signals to extract complex signals and to retrieve clock information and phase with picosecond accuracies
• Knowledge of Phase Locked Loops(PLL) Direct Digital Synthesizers (DDS), and Numerically Controlled Oscillators (NCO), and their critical parameters, such as Phase Noise and Jitter.
• Work with multiple generations of XILINX and other FPGA / embedded processor architectures and operating firmware and peripherals including Vivado and VITIS tools
• Build breadboards, prototypes and demonstration platforms, and have the ability to clone and replicate existing older generation FPGA based cores
• Create technical reports, papers, presentations, and proposals
• Participate, contribute anddemonstrate compatibility with standards such as IEEE 1588 Precision Time Protocol (PTP).

• Master's degree in Electrical Engineering with 5+ years of applicable experience
• 2+ years of demonstrated success in developing complex, high speed, signal analysis and synthesis RFSoC/FPGA platforms
• 2+ years of experience in developing communications systems hardware and software including DSP, FEC, with knowledge of the underlying communication theory and mathematics.
• Knowledge of a wide variety of embedded control systems and chips
• Excellent knowledge of fiber and 10/100/1000 Gbps interfaces, and wireless networking protocols,
• Knowledge and experience with test and measurement instrumentation and software
• Ability to communicate within a team and externally to a variety of stakeholders to include presenting progress and updates
• Ability to write detailed technical analyses and reports and to contribute to technical proposals.

• PhD in Electrical Engineering or relevant years of experience as described above
• Experience with RF Transceivers, antennas, modulation and signal processing chains
• Knowledge of AI/ML processes