Harmattan Ai
FPGA Engineer - Radar Signal Processing
Paris. Posted 8 months ago
The role
You will design and implement real-time radar signal-processing pipelines for drone sensing capabilities. You will work with hardware and embedded software engineers through architecture, RTL implementation, integration, and field validation.
What you will do
- Develop FPGA-based radar signal-processing pipelines including pulse compression, Range/Doppler processing, CFAR detection, and target tracking handoff
- Contribute to RTL implementation of radar waveform generation and reception for FMCW and pulsed waveforms
- Perform system-level radar simulations including Range-Doppler maps, SNR modeling, clutter analysis, and detection performance assessment
- Write and maintain testbenches and validation frameworks for radar processing chains
- Collaborate with RF and hardware engineers for integration between FPGA designs and the radar front end
- Document interfaces between the radar processing core, system software, and hardware layers
Required qualifications
- Master’s degree (or equivalent) in Electrical Engineering, Signal Processing, Applied Physics, or a related field
- At least 3 years of hands-on FPGA development experience
- Practical work with radar or sonar signal processing using VHDL and/or Verilog/SystemVerilog
- Strong working knowledge of radar signal processing fundamentals including pulse compression, matched filtering, Range-Doppler processing, CFAR, and clutter rejection
- Familiarity with FMCW and pulsed radar architectures including waveform generation and digital back-end processing on FPGA
- Solid foundation in DSP concepts: FFT, FIR/IIR filtering, windowing, fixed-point arithmetic, and precision management
- Experience with test benches development and hardware-in-the-loop validation
- Rigorous and collaborative with the ability to work effectively across hardware, software, and systems teams
- 100% dedication to Harmattan AI’s mission, vision, and ambitious growth plans
About the company
Harmattan AI is a next-generation defense prime building autonomous and scalable defense systems. The company is expanding its teams to deliver mission-critical systems to allied forces.