Digital Signal Processing Engineer
Main purpose of the job
To create DSP solutions for wireless projects, from preparing the specification and designing the architecture through to detailed design, test, documentation and maintenance, and eventual hand-over of the full design to the client.
Type of work undertaken by the division/group
The Digital Signal Processing Group applies signal-processing techniques to a wide range of our clients’ applications. As part of Cambridge Consultants’ Wireless Division, much of our work is focused on telecommunications, healthcare and consumer goods.
Our expertise ranges from complex software solutions in off-the-shelf DSP chips through to DSP ASIC/FPGA cores and pure hardware implementations. Approaching problems with this breadth of knowledge allows us to develop the power-efficient, low-cost designs demanded by so many wireless applications.
Specialised intellectual property like our APE2 VLIW processor enables us to use digital signal processing where traditionally analogue techniques have dominated. Typical examples are software radio, and digital implementation of radio frequency and phase loops.
Recent examples of development work include a cellular radio telemetry system for real-time medical monitoring, a satellite telephone, an ultra wide band (UWB) system architecture, a software radio ASIC for a consumer application, and a 802.16e WiMAX PHY.
Specific responsibilities
The role of the DSP Engineer will be:
- Undertaking the detailed design of software and hardware DSP systems
- Writing models and simulations of processing functions
- Working closely with hardware engineers to debug and optimise designs
- Understanding and working from the relevant standards for the communications system in question
- Working at all times as part of a close-knit multi-disciplinary project team focussed on delivering the design solution to our client
- Participating in sales meetings with clients to understand their requirements and demonstrate Cambridge Consultants’ capability
- Preparing and contributing to proposals and quotations
- Creating innovative design solutions that will be of particular interest to our clients
- Documenting software designs to a high standard of quality
Minimum requirements
- Good degree in engineering, mathematics or computer science
- Fluent programming in one of C or MATLAB
- Excellent mathematical skills
- Strong software engineering skills
- Good communication skills, both verbal and written
- Ideally a good grasp of radio communications theory
Future Prospects
Cambridge Consultants is committed to developing its employees’careers and has a flexible policy for individual capabilities and preferences. Promotion is linked to merit.
Employment benefits
- Good salaries, based on merit and reviewed annually
- Bonus scheme in addition to basic salary
- Flexible working hours
- Free lunches and refreshments
- Private medical insurance and company sickness scheme
- Pension scheme including free life assurance
- 25 days annual holiday plus bank holidays
- Assistance in relocation if applicable
- Active social committee
- Well equipped and pleasantly situated building on the Cambridge Science Park
- Above all, real responsibility for real business problems, with good career prospects based on merit
- Excellent career development and training opportunities
To apply, send your CV to: UKrecruitment@CambridgeConsultants.com