Senior PHY-Algo Engineer - Bucharest, Romania, United States
Analog & Mixed-Signal Design
About the role
This role involves the development and delivery of algorithmic solutions for dedicated hardware accelerators, CPUs, GPUs, and vector DSPs.
What you'll do
- Research, design, and develop advanced signal processing algorithms for sensing applications.
- Define, document, and maintain algorithmic specifications and technical documentation.
- Perform fixed-point analysis and modeling to support efficient HW and SW implementations.
- Develop and execute end-to-end algorithm pipeline simulations using MATLAB and/or Python.
- Conduct algorithm performance evaluation and validation at both block and system levels within simulation environments.
- Optimize platform and HW architectures with a focus on effective HW/SW partitioning.
What you'll need
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or a closely related field.
- Minimum of 5 years of experience in algorithm development for signal processing and/or advanced communication systems.
- Proficiency in Python, MATLAB, and C/C++ for the development, integration, and validation of algorithms within end-to-end DSP pipelines.
- Demonstrated expertise in fixed-point design and implementation of computationally intensive algorithms, including the delivery of bit-exact and cycle-accurate fixed-point models and detailed specifications.
- Proven experience collaborating with Digital Front-End designers, verification engineers, and embedded DSP software developers, including the generation of test vectors to enable bit-exact algorithm implementations in RTL and embedded software.
Nice to have
- MSc or PhD in Electrical Engineering, or a closely related field.
- Experience in algorithm development and data analysis across application domains such as automotive systems, IoT, robotics, and multimodal sensor platforms.
- Strong foundation in signal processing, including spectrum analysis, filter design, estimation and detection theory, and optimization techniques.
- Experience developing computer vision and machine learning algorithms, including clustering, tracking, classification, and 3D point-cloud processing.
- Proven experience porting and optimizing DSP algorithms for dedicated HW accelerators and heterogeneous CPU/DSP/GPU architectures, with particular emphasis on radar and LiDAR sensor applications.
Skills: signal processing algorithms, DSP, fixed-point analysis, MATLAB, Python, hardware accelerators