Plato is hiring a
Radar Signal Processing Engineer

Summary

The job is for a Signal Processing Engineer at a San Francisco Bay Area startup, focusing on developing signal processing algorithms for FMCW Radar data. The ideal candidate should have a graduate degree in engineering and experience in waveform design, signal detection and estimation, algorithm development for sensing and perception, localization and tracking algorithms, and understanding of Radar operation principles.

Requirements

• A graduate degree in engineering (MSc or PhD) in following fields: Waveform design for active sensing solutions, Theory and algorithms for signal detection and estimation, Algorithm development for sensing and perception (especially related to radar pipelines), Localization and tracking algorithms, including Kalman and particle filters, ADAS radar architectures and signal processing schemes, FFT based processing, MUSIC algorithm, filtering, clustering and feature extraction
• Understanding of Radar operation principles and the related theoretical framework
• Experience with fixed-point arithmetic and numerical methods
• Working experience with MATLAB and/or Python, and familiarity with C++

Responsibilities

• Develop signal processing algorithms, including detection, estimation, prediction, and tracking, to interpret FMCW Radar data
• Prototype, benchmark, and test new radar signal processing algorithms
• Identify required evaluation datasets and plan/manage data captures
• Develop simulation models for interpreting experimental Radar data
• Maintain and improve Radar signal processing algorithms and models, including continuous evaluation, gap analysis, re-training, and fine tuning
• Own the tuning of the algorithms to meet performance requirements including recall and precision
• Support the product development cycle and subsequent verification phases including performance evaluation efforts

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior experience developing sensor fusion algorithms using data from different sensing modalities including Radar, Camera, and ToF/LiDAR systems
• 3 to 5 years of experience with product level development and support