RECOGNITION…RESPONSIBILITY…RESPECT…REWARDS…

That’s what awaits you at DSPCon!

At DSPCon, we offer career opportunities abundant with challenges and rewards in an environment that fosters teamwork, creativity and innovation. Our rapid, double-digit growth has created outstanding employment opportunities for those looking to make a difference in the place they work. A recognized industry leader with a customer base that includes some of the world's most influential commercial and government organizations, DSPCon is committed to attracting and retaining outstanding individuals who share our values, strive for excellence in everything they do and want to work at the forefront of technology. If you're a self-starter who wants to grow and thrive in a positive, creative environment and can demonstrate a proven track record of success, we encourage you to contact us. We offer a competitive salary, a casual work environment, Medical, Dental and Long-term Disability benefits, a Flexible Spending Account Plan, Life Insurance, a 401(k) Plan with Company match, Stock Appreciation Rights (SARs), 100% Tuition Reimbursement, Flex Time, Vacation and Personal days, and the days off between Christmas Day and New Year's Day, paid!

We encourage qualified applicants to e-mail their resume to hr@dspcon.com  

DSPCon is an equal opportunity employer. It is our corporate policy to fill positions with qualified candidates regardless of the candidate's race, color, sex, age, religion, ancestry, national origin, citizenship status, marital status, sexual orientation, medical condition, disability, pregnancy, veteran status or any other category protected by law.

 Project Manager/Systems Engineer 

Performance Objectives 

• Work with cross functional teams during the proposal phase to identify engineering and material cost estimates required to obtain the best solution that meets DSPCon’s visionary goal and customer requirements.
• Develop, implement, and monitor master project plans (work breakdown structures) and budgets.
• Formulate and review project plans, subcontracting, and deliverable items, while determining contract costs and ensuring conformity with contract terms and conditions.
• Effectively flow down system-level requirements and designs to the engineering staff and provide oversight in the development of lower level software requirements and designs.
• Promote the Company’s values every day with your words and actions.
• Promote and support an environment that encourages continuous process improvement in all facets of the design.
• Prioritize and oversee development activities to ensure tasks are completed with quality, in a timely manner, and within the budget.
• Oversee quality of work being produced against schedule and the use of resources to complete the project.
• Minimize the Company’s exposure and risk on projects.
• Build strong client relationships.
• Ensure customer satisfaction by engaging customer in technical discussions, managing customer expectations, communicating designs and plans to customer, and gaining customer acceptance.
• Lead team meetings, complete with clear objectives, agendas, and outcomes.
• Maintain the highest standards of ethical conduct and regulatory compliance within the organization and its activities.
• Represent systems engineering at configuration control meetings, software design reviews, system/software integration and acceptance tests, and technical interchange meetings.

Experience 

• Minimum of 5 years project management, systems engineering, and hands-on hardware and software engineering experience is required.
• BSEE/MSEE or BSME/MSME degree required.
• Successful project engineering track record managing the development of technology-based products for commercial and military applications.
• Intimate knowledge of project management tools and procedures.
• Solid understanding of general engineering principles, statistical analysis, signal processing fundamentals, spectral analysis, digital filtering, and modulation/demodulation schemes.
• Working knowledge of system engineering processes, such as requirements analysis, trade-study, risk identification and management, and interface management.
• Ability to solve problems rapidly and effectively; strong analytical capacity.
• Exceptional organizational skills, self-motivation, a sense of urgency, sensitivity to deadlines, and a detail-oriented style required.
• Intimate knowledge of people management skills, particularly influence management and conflict resolution.
• Superior presentation, verbal, and written communication skills.
• Initiative and propensity to assume new responsibilities.
• Active security clearance or the ability to obtain clearance is desired.

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Configuration Control Specialist

Performance Objectives

• Develop, document, and execute configuration management plans and procedures to effectively identify, manage changes to, and report status of product designs and custom engineering solutions. This function covers both software and hardware issues in a development and production environment.
• Implement an automated configuration management system that integrates version control, traceability, tracking, and build management functions.
• Conduct and follow up on multiple meetings to ensure that:
  • Required features and fixes are being built into loads according to schedule.
  • Software modification requests are tracked and driven to closure.
  • Hardware issues are documented and driven to closure (non conformances principally).
  • Work orders are created and driven to closure. These issues address production issues according to the production schedule. 
• Create weekly reports tracking progress on hardware and software issues, including close/open rates, average age, late issues, and time to closure. Work with the management team to continue to develop metrics as the process matures and improves. 
• Create software loads across the product line. This includes identifying the modules to be built as well as confirming the sanity of the built load with the Test team.
• Coordinate engineering change notices (ECNs) and engineering change proposals (ECPs) with all stakeholders.
• Maintain and continually improve automated build processes for hardware and software, ensuring that builds work consistently across products.
• Develop and improve the package and production release infrastructure that effectively handles change.
• Ensure deployed hardware and software, as well as internal testing environments, meet supported configuration standards.
• Coach and mentor the development teams in the published configuration control processes, and ensure that the teams comply with the processes.
• Maintain a structured document repository that is efficient, effective, and meets the Company’s quality objectives.
• Effectively troubleshoot configuration-related problems in all environments; monitor and report status of configuration management activities.

Experience

• Experience with quality processes (ISO-9001:2008).
• Ability to develop and implement configuration management plans and instructions.
• Dedicated to meeting expectations and requirements of both internal and external customers.
• Ability to meet aggressive project timelines, while sustaining high performance and high quality.
• Ability to effectively prioritize work, anticipate and proactively identify problems/risks, and develop and apply innovative solutions.
• Adaptable to changing priorities and pressures.
• Strong organizational and time management skills.
• Strong work ethic with the ability to sustain long work hours when necessary.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Formal configuration management training is desired.
• BS degree in a technical field with no less than 5 years professional experience in configuration management.

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 Software Engineer

Contribute to the Company's success in the test & measurement and military/aerospace markets by developing embedded and/or desktop software components and applications for real-time, multi-threaded systems.

DSPCon employees collectively contribute to the Company's business objectives by achieving exceptional results. As a member of the Engineering team, the Software Engineer is involved in all product/project life-cycle stages, including design, coding, integration, testing, and maintenance. 

  Performance Objectives

• Meet with the project team leader, fellow engineers, and other key individuals and departments associated with the project to determine the status of the project and where this position fits into the overall scope of the project. Learn everything necessary to complete the software module assigned to this position and demonstrate an understanding.
• Develop and/or review a project plan for development of the models assigned to this position, outlining key project milestones and time to completion. This includes identifying user requirements, preparation of use cases, development of critical paths and dependency relationships, and project challenges. Incorporate these into the plan.  
• Meet with the design team, develop and submit a comprehensive design concept for formal review. This includes software models, layout modules, objects, and process map. This plan needs to meet key functional requirements.
• Review existing code for the project and recommend modifications for upgrading and improvement. Develop a time-phased plan of action to complement the proposed changes.
• Complete detailed coding to meet project deadlines. The code should be optimal in terms of the system performance, code readability, and the use of the system resources. This includes unit testing and preparation of complete design documentation. Notify the project team leader ahead of time if the project deadlines cannot be met.  
• Complete assignments on modification requests in no more than two months.
• Expect major technical issues and challenges in this position. Be in a position to present a series of alternative approaches and lead the product design reviews. During this presentation, address alternative approaches, methods used to assess these alternatives, the impact on the project schedules, and additional resources required, if any. 
• During the design phase, continually test code for functionality and optimize for performance to insure the code meets project standards. Develop the software test plans and procedures. Take the lead on coordinating this effort with the software quality assurance team and assist with all troubleshooting needs and debugging efforts. Ensure that all required design changes are completed in a timely manner to meet the overall project schedule.  

  Experience

• Must have solid software engineering skills to implement complex applications on various industry-standard workstations and embedded platforms; e.g., MS-Windows, Linux, VxWorks. 
• Must have extensive knowledge of MS-Windows operating system and APIs.
• Must be proficient in C++ and C#.
• Experience developing GUI applications with emphasis on the user interface is required.
• Experience developing MS-Windows device drivers, DLLs, ActiveX controls and other object-oriented software components. 
• Exceptional organizational skills, self-motivation, a sense of urgency, sensitivity to deadlines, and a detail-oriented style required.
• Ability to solve problems rapidly and effectively; strong analytical capacity.
• Superior presentation, verbal, and written communication skills.
• Initiative and propensity to assume new responsibilities.
• Strong work ethic with the ability to sustain long hours when necessary.
• Active security clearance or the ability to obtain clearance is desired. 
• A BS/MSEE degree and no less than 5 years relevant and successful software development experience is required. 

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Field Application Engineer

The Field Application Engineer will provide on-site field support to a specific group of customers worldwide, and is considered a key member of a close-knit team established to provide DSPCon customers with top quality support, training, and field service. 

 Performance Objectives

• The chief responsibility for the successful candidate is to provide best-in-class customer service and engineering support to DSPCon customers. This individual will function as the technical interface between the customer's engineers and DSPCon's engineering community on all existing and new products with specific focus on new product development opportunities. The overall goal is to increase the content of our products in the customer's end product, thereby increasing sales.
• In addition, the successful candidate will assist in pre- and post-sales technical support to the Company's tier-one clients.
• Gain an understanding of our customer's core business, the problems they encounter, and provide a value-add using DSPCon products and services.
• Conceive ideas and concepts for new products or business opportunities through direct discussion/input from the customer, and use your engineering knowledge to solve design problems and transform customer requirements into sketches and workable models for DSPCon's development team.
• Provide excellent customer support, including:
  • Hardware and software training
  • Maintenance support
  • Sales support and problem resolution
• Assist customers with the proper application of all DSPCon products to their system needs.
• Develop and maintain customer relationships at all levels of the customer's organization.
• Develop an understanding of the organizational structure of the customer's enterprise.
• Assist with product demonstrations, identifying product enhancements driven by customer requirements, and interface with requisite teams to help them meet customer needs.
• Work with Customer Service and the engineering development team to improve performance metrics and measure levels of customer satisfaction.
• Provide customer feedback on existing and future customer requirements and identify opportunities for DSPCon to add value to a customer's enterprise.
• Communicate system design concepts, both verbally and in written form, to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Support current and future DSPCon products and services.  

 Experience

• Dedicated to meeting expectations and requirements of both internal and external customers.
• Self-motivated, with an eye on the big picture of a customer service department. 
• Direct experience developing new products is a plus. 
• Experience with aviation testing/spacecraft testing and technology is a plus.
• Adaptable to changing priorities and pressures.
• Strong organizational and time management skills.
• Lead by personal example, demonstrate integrity and trust, and is competent and resourceful.
• Talented, friendly, adaptable, and can effectively work in a team environment.
• Ability and desire to travel 20-50%. 
• Must be able to obtain a U.S. Government security clearance.
• BSEE/CS and 5+ years related experience working with data acquisition systems. 

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Documentation Engineer

As a member of the Engineering team, the Documentation Engineer will research, develop, and write content in proposals, printed manuals, Company documentation, and other supporting materials for software, hardware, technical procedures, and technology-related services. 

 Performance Objectives

• Develop production/quality standards for documentation, and apply the same standards to documentation being developed.
• Coordinate the layout and organization of documentation for publications, including reviewing and revising previously created documentation.
• Organize material and complete writing assignments following the Company's standard guidelines or customer requirements.
• Familiarize yourself and gain hands-on experience with the Company's product line.
• Review current documentation and customer use cases to develop overall strategy for product suite documentation.
• Develop and maintain a hierarchical documentation structure that supports all DSPCon products.
• Gather and research technical, engineering and development information for use in documentation activities.
• Create graphical images, flow charts, and diagrams for inclusion in documentation, and selecting photographs, drawings, sketches, diagrams, and charts to illustrate material.
• Review, edit, and proofread material written by others.
• Develop and execute a plan to add hyper-linking within Company's documents.
• Enter and maintain technical documentation under version control.   

 Experience

• BSEE preferred with at least 5 years of technical writing for high-technology products and systems.
• Advanced in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, Adobe PageMaker and Acrobat.
• Must have excellent spelling, grammar, and typing skills.
• Ability to communicate effectively with technical and non-technical personnel. Must have the organizational intelligence to ask the right questions to gather and evaluate requirements for project elements. 
• Adaptable to changing priorities and pressures, with the ability to work on multiple sub projects simultaneously. 
• Ability to meet aggressive project timelines, while sustaining high performance and high quality. 
• Dedicated to meeting expectations and requirements of both internal and external users.
• Ability to effectively prioritize work, anticipate and proactively identify problems/risks, and develop and apply innovative solutions.
• Organized and structured project management skills.
• Work effectively as part of a team and stimulate a good attitude in others.

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