Senior Radar Firmware Engineer Engineering Dresden, Germany

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Xneural develops next-generation airspace surveillance systems thatprotect civil and critical infrastructure, based on distributed radar sensorsand cloud-based AI perception. Our mission is to make the lower airspacevisible through Drone Detection as a Service deployed on existingtelecommunications infrastructure.

We are building a highly scalable radar perception platform capable ofdetecting, tracking, and classifying airborne objects in complexreal-world environments.

Role Overview

As our Senior Radar Firmware Engineer, you own the firmware that runs the radar signal chain on oursensor nodes. You implement waveform control and signal processing algorithms bare metal on an NXPradar SoC driving our 77 GHz front end, verify them against measurements in the lab, and keep thechain inside its timing, memory, and power budget. You work directly with the Radar SystemsArchitect on algorithm design, with the embedded Linux team on the platform your firmware runs on,and with the perception team on the micro-Doppler data their classification models consume.

Key Responsibilities

Implement radar signal processing algorithms bare metal on the DSP cores of our NXP radar SoC
Define and maintain the firmware architecture for the radar signal chain
Implement waveform generation, timing, and control for the 77 GHz front end
Verify algorithm behaviour against lab measurements, including the test setups needed tocharacterize it
Analyze and optimize runtime, memory, and power consumption on the target hardware
Produce and maintain the micro-Doppler data products the perception team's classification modelsare trained and run on
Work with the Radar Systems Architect to bring algorithm designs onto the target
Work with the embedded Linux team on interfaces, build integration, and firmware updates

Required Qualifications

7+ years of hands-on firmware or DSP development for embedded signal processing systems (a degreein Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Physics, or a related field is welcome, thoughequivalent practical experience counts just as much)
Practical experience with radar signal processing algorithms such as detection, tracking, orclutter suppression
Experience planning and running radar measurements, and comparing the results against expectedalgorithm behaviour
Experience with bare-metal development on multicore SoCs: startup and memory layout, DMA, andinterrupt latency
Solid C skills, plus working proficiency in at least one of C++, Rust, or DSP assembly
Experience defining firmware architecture for a shipped product, not only for prototypes
Experience with software and hardware performance analysis: profiling, timing, memory, and poweron the target

Nice to Have

Experience with FMCW radar and multi-channel or MIMO front ends
Experience with fixed-point implementation and numerical accuracy analysis
Experience with vendor DSP toolchains and SDKs, ideally the NXP radar SDK
Practical command of laboratory instruments such as oscilloscopes, spectrum analyzers, signalgenerators, and vector network analyzers
Contributions to open-source signal processing or embedded projects
German language skills are beneficial but not required