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Wireless Engineer

San Diego, California, United States

About Us:

SkySafe’s advanced drone detection technology enables organizations to identify, track, and analyze drone activity. Its cloud-based SaaS platform offers complete airspace awareness, providing real-time and historical drone data to distinguish between unauthorized drones and legitimate ones. With SkySafe, you can protect people and communities from malicious drones that may pose security threats, disrupt operations, or violate privacy.

About the Role:

SkySafe leads the industry in research and development on wireless communication systems found in modern consumer drones (small UAS). SkySafe is looking for an experienced wireless communication systems engineer to advance its RF drone detection and mitigation systems for its counter UAS (CUAS) products. The ideal candidate has a breadth and depth of knowledge on physical layer wireless communication systems plus experience turning that specialized knowledge into production-grade software defined radio (SDR) implementations.

Responsibilities:

  • Improve and evolve SkySafe’s industry leading SDR-based systems for drone detection and tracking.
  • Develop, optimize, and maintain signal detection and demodulation algorithms.
  • Analyze, reverse engineer, and document the physical layer of communication systems (modulation, coding, scrambling, symbol mapping, interleaving, etc.).
  • Support operational requirements and participate in the on-call operations schedule.

Requirements:

  • Five or more years of relevant experience.
  • Background in signal processing, communication systems, information theory, and channel coding.
  • History of demonstrable research and development (e.g., conferences, journals, open source or personal projects).
  • Strong command of modern C++ and Python programming.
  • Proficient with Linux systems.
  • Proficient in software development practices: Git, testing, automation, observability, metrics, issue tracking, code reviews, etc.
  • This position requires access to technology, materials, software or hardware that is controlled by US export laws. In order to be eligible for this position, you must be a US person under US export laws or, eligible for approval for a U.S. Government export license. A US Person includes a US citizen, lawful Permanent Resident, refugee or asylee.

Personal Qualities:

  • Self-guided with strong initiative and a diversity of skills.
  • Strong communication and collaboration skills; comfortable working in a team environment with other remote employees.
  • Ability to manage time effectively and meet deadlines in a fast-paced setting.

Nice-to-Have:

  • Experience with NI (Ettus) SDRs, like the x310, covering the RF design, FPGA firmware, and intricacies of UHD and RFNoC.
  • Experience implementing optimized signal processing algorithms in FPGAs.
  • Familiarity with one or more modern wireless standards like LTE, 5G NR, WiFi, Bluetooth, GNSS, etc.
  • Familiarity with other sensing paradigms like radar, vision, RF signal geolocation, etc.
  • Familiarity with machine learning techniques for signal processing.

Why Join Us?

  • Competitive salary and benefits, including full health coverage, unlimited PTO, and flexible work hours.
  • A supportive and innovative team environment that values collaboration and creativity.
  • The chance to deliver high-impact solutions, contributing directly to the success of a small, fast-moving team where your work will make a tangible difference.
  • Live in San Diego and work at our office where you can access hardware and drones and enjoy beautiful Southern California with your colleagues.

If you're excited about the prospect of pushing the boundaries of what’s possible in an entirely new industry, then SkySafe might be right for you!

No recruiters or agencies, please!

 

Our salary ranges are based on paying competitively for our size and industry. Salary is just one part of our total compensation package that includes equity, perks & benefits, and development opportunities at SkySafe. Individual pay decisions are based on several factors, including qualifications for the role, experience level, skillset, geography, and balancing internal equity relative to other SkySafers.

Salary Range

$145,000 - $225,000 USD

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