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Assured Space Access Technologies, Inc. is a defense and engineering firm delivering phased array, radar, RF payload, and secure communications solutions to government and prime contractor customers. We are headquartered in Irvine, California. This role joins the Radar Computer team within Ground Based Radar, which owns the processing hardware that turns digitized array data into detections, tracks, and control.

Team: Ground Based Radar (GBR) Products, Radar Computer Team

Location: Irvine, CA (on-site)

Employment Type: Full-Time

Clearance: This position requires the ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Secret clearance, which requires U.S. citizenship. An active clearance is preferred.

Base Salary Range: $155,000 – $200,000

Position Summary

As the Senior Compute Hardware Engineer, you will own the hardware architecture of the radar’s processing system: servers, GPU and FPGA accelerators, high-speed network fabric, timing distribution, storage, and the rugged enclosures they live in. The baseline computer comes from an outside supplier. You will be the technical owner who specifies it, verifies it, integrates it with the array and receivers, and takes it from a lab build to a rugged, field-ready system.

You will work with the radar compute software engineers who build the real-time platform, the digital receiver/exciter team that delivers digitized data, systems engineers who set processing and latency budgets, and the mechanical, thermal, and power teams who package it. This is a senior individual contributor seat for an electrical or computer engineer who has delivered high-performance embedded or rugged compute for radar, electronic warfare, or similar real-time sensor systems.

Key Responsibilities

Architecture and Specification

• Own the radar compute hardware architecture: processors, GPU and FPGA accelerators, memory, storage, high-speed interconnects, network fabric, and timing and synchronization distribution.

• Translate processing, latency, data rate, and recording requirements into hardware specifications, and size compute, I/O, power, and thermal margins.

• Evaluate and select COTS and rugged compute (for example, OpenVPX or rugged rack-mount servers), and run trade studies on performance, size, weight, power, cost, and supply risk.

Supplier and Integration

• Serve as technical lead with the radar computer supplier: requirements, interface definitions, design reviews, acceptance testing, and issue resolution.

• Define and verify interfaces to the digital receiver/exciter and array control: high-speed data links, Ethernet and fiber, timing, triggers, and control signals.

• Bring up hardware in the lab, verify throughput, latency, and timing, and support integration with the radar compute software platform.

Ruggedization and Qualification

• Work with mechanical, thermal, and power engineers to package compute for mobile, outdoor operation, including cooling, shock and vibration, input power, and EMI.

• Plan and support environmental and EMI/EMC qualification testing, and resolve failures.

• Own the hardware configuration baseline, obsolescence and technology refresh planning, documentation, and spares for fielded systems.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering.

• 8+ years designing, specifying, or integrating high-performance compute hardware for real-time sensor, radar, electronic warfare, communications, or similar systems.

• Experience with GPU- or FPGA-accelerated processing systems and the data paths that feed them (PCIe, high-speed serial, 10/40/100 GbE, fiber).

• Experience with timing and synchronization distribution in multi-node systems (for example, reference clocks, PPS, PTP, or trigger distribution).

• Experience owning supplier-delivered hardware through specification, design review, and acceptance.

• Strong lab bring-up and debug skills with oscilloscopes, protocol analyzers, and Linux performance tools.

• Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Secret clearance, which requires U.S. citizenship.

• Ability to work on site in Irvine, CA.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with OpenVPX or SOSA-aligned rugged systems, or rugged rack-mount compute for ground vehicles or shelters.

• Experience with phased array radar back ends, digital beamforming hardware, or high-rate data recording.

• Familiarity with MIL-STD-810, MIL-STD-461, and MIL-STD-1275 qualification.

• Board-level design experience (schematics and high-speed signal integrity) for carrier or interface boards.

• Master’s degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering.

• Active Secret or higher security clearance.

What We Offer

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage; 401(k) with company matching; and paid time off.

• Professional development support, including training and certifications relevant to your field.

• Relocation assistance considered case by case.

• Hands-on ownership of real scope in a growing defense technology company.

Equal Opportunity

Assured Space Access Technologies, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.