A well-established business is seeking to appoint a Senior Software Developer (DSP)
Qualification:
- B.Sc or B.Tech (Eng) (NQF 7) in Computer Engineering, Computer Science or related field with 13+ years relevant experience,
- B.Eng/B.Sc (Eng) (NQF 8) in Computer Engineering, Computer Science or related field with 9+ years relevant experience
- MSc / [URL Removed] (NQF 9) in Computer Engineering, Computer Science or related field with 7+ years relevant experience
- PhD (NQF 10) in Computer Engineering, Computer Science or related field with 5+ years relevant experience
Experience:
- Experience as a Software Developer with a track-record of designing and implementing digital signal processing or similar data processing systems on GPGPU/HPC hardware architecture.
- Experience building data processing applications specifically for Radio Astronomy instrumentation is advantageous but not required
- Experience in both designing high-performance data processing or digital signal processing systems at a higher, product level as well as low-level implementation of components and features
- High-performance computing, particularly GPU computing and implementing parallel processing on GPU-based systems
- Implementation of accelerated and optimised algorithms (DSP algorithms is advantageous)
- High-performance networking (e.g., ibverbs, DPDK, VMA or similar kernel bypass technologies)
- Experience analysing system requirements and defining a suitable system design
- Writing technical documentation describing the implementation and design of products at various technical levels
- Software development: Python (particularly for scientific computing, such as numpy), C/C++
- Working with workflow and issue management tools (e.g., JIRA)
- Working with source code and version control tools (e.g., Git)
Knowledge:
- Experience in GPGPU and HPC programming
- Software Development best practices
- Typical radio astronomy instrumentation: e.g, spectrometers, correlators, beamformers (advantageous)
- Knowledge of multi-rate and parallel implementations of Digital Signal Processing Operations such as FFTs, Filters, DDS, DDC
- High-speed data transport such as ethernet and knowledge of large-scale networks
- Controlling and monitoring of DSP or data processing applications and components
- Software Development or Scientific Computing proficiency in either Python or C++
- Systems Engineering or Software Design Life Cycle
- Linux operating systems and development tools
Please note that if you have not received a response within 14 days of submitting your application that your application was unsuccessful.
However, please keep a lookout on our website, [URL Removed] for available positions which may be inline with your career aspirations.
Desired Skills:
- Radio Astronomy
- Designing and Implementing
- Software development