Senior Wireless Communications Systems Engineer

THE OPPORTUNITY

Our Client is seeking a Senior Wireless Communication Systems Engineer to participate in all phases of wireless technology projects that include planning, design, implementation, prototyping, verification, and validation. This position is on a hybrid schedule, a minimum of 3 days on-site per week is required. On-site days are the following: Mondays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays.

ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• System design and requirement specification.
• Algorithmic development, simulation, implementation, and testing.
• System performance simulation, bench marking, and testing.
• Fixed point modeling and FPGA design and verification support.
• Support FPGA and Software development teams for hardware/software implementation
• and troubleshooting.
• Lead a team of multi-disciplinary engineers for product and feature development as
• needed.
• Setting, tracking, and driving development schedules and tasks.
• Design and participate in lab and field testing and troubleshooting.
• Technical material preparation and documentation.
• Participate in R&D business development and capture efforts as needed.
• Understand current products and technologies and brainstorm with other teams for
• future enhancements and strategies.
• As necessary, perform other related duties of which the above are representative.
• Infrequent travel to support customer interactions or test and demonstration events.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• M.S. or Ph.D. in the field of wireless communications and signal processing.
• A minimum of 7 years of experience in the design and development of wireless systems.
• Participation in the complete wireless technology development cycle: from design to field
• testing.
• Extensive knowledge and experience about RF propagation and channel modeling.
• Extensive knowledge and experience about all parts of digital communication systems
• such as RF subsystems, synchronizations, channel estimation, channel coding, etc.
• Extensive knowledge about signal processing algorithms, MIMO, OFDM.
• Extensive experience in modeling and mitigating RF impairments to signals such as
• AGC, phase noise, frequency/clock offset, etc.
• Experiences with fixed point modeling, implementation, and verification.
• Expert in MATLAB programming and simulation.
• Must be a U.S. Citizen due to clients under U.S. government contracts.
• Employment is contingent upon the successful clearance of a background check.

PREFERRED KNOWLEDGE SKILLS AND ABILITIES (exposure and experience desired, expertise preferred)

• Wireless mobile ad-hoc networking, medium access, and routing algorithms.
• Cognitive radio congested and contested spectrum and interference mitigation.
• RF sensing, signal detection, and cla