Senior Software Developer (DSP) needed at Six Senses

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 / M.Eng (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

Closing:  2025-07-31