Digital Signal Processing and Communications Engineer - Hybrid bei Vannevar Labs
Vannevar Labs · Seattle, Vereinigte Staaten Von Amerika · Hybrid
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- Optionales Büro in Seattle
Vannevar is a defense technology company building AI to deter our adversaries. In the 21st century, conflict moves at algorithmic speed and foresight equals firepower. Our agentic AI is purpose-built to compete with China—from cross-Strait conflict to gray zone coercion. Trained on the most mission-relevant datasets in defense, our technology models adversary behavior, simulates campaigns, and recommends the best course of action to decision makers. Our AI systems are some of the most trusted in the industry and actively used on the front lines of the Indo-Pacific to keep the peace and save lives.
Exceptional technology starts with exceptional people. Vannevar is a small agile team combining world-class engineers with veteran strategists who bring deep expertise in defense and tradecraft. We’re building a company defined by mission impact, user empathy, and disciplined growth. In just three years, we grew from $3M to $80M in ARR, achieved early profitability, and reached unicorn status—proving that disruption doesn’t require an ego, and staying power doesn’t mean standing still.
About the role
The sensing team at Vannevar Labs is building a new hardware product that supports a widespread need for low-cost, attritable, and easily coordinated sensing. We’re looking for a digital signal processing and communications engineer who can develop methods to detect, equalize, and classify RF signals. This would support the core of the team's efforts to build an agile and intelligent signal detection and characterization platform that can rapidly address the needs of a diverse set of end users. You will be the principal engineer for developing a systematic framework for detection, equalization and triage of a diverse sets of waveforms. You will be responsible for ensuring signal processing methods are delivered to address mission critical sensing requirements for our end users in the United States Government. This is a hybrid role based in Seattle (3 days/week in office).
What you'll do
- Develop new methods to detect and characterize known and anomalous waveforms
- Develop a data triage tool to identify fundamental physical phenomenon or signal properties that are likely root causes for AI model classification failures
- Develop optimized software that can be integrated into a resource constrained processing pipeline on edge platforms
- Collaborate with cross disciplinary engineering teams to integrate developed algorithms and models into production
- Be a hands-on technical contributor as part of test and evaluation of the developed capabilities
- Be responsible for unit tests and simulation capabilities for potential propagation scenarios
- Travel up to 20% of time to meet with internal stakeholders and assist experimentation and capability evaluation events
What we look for
- 2+ years working with digital signal processing implementation, wireless communications and detection and estimation methods
- 2+ years building channel equalization methods or working with channel propagation modeling
- 2+ years developing optimized processing code in python, C++ or embedded development environments
- 2+ years of signal processing software test and evaluation using hardware in the loop, over the air or other non-software simulation-based capability evaluation
What we offer
The salary range for this position is $130,000 - $180,000 + equity + 401K match. Within the range, individual pay is determined by experience, relevant education, and/or training.
- Health, dental, and vision insurance
- Unlimited PTO including competitive vacation and holiday schedules
- Lifestyle stipends - Monthly mental health, wellness & fitness stipend, in-home office setup stipend and family planning assistance
- Salary top-up during military reserve duty
- Fully paid parental leave
- Child and pet care reimbursement during travel
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