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Arlington- Graduate Research Assistants; Ph.D

Job in Arlington, Arlington County, Virginia, 22201, USA
Listing for: Commonwealth Cyber Initiative
Full Time position
Listed on 2026-05-20
Job specializations:
  • Manufacturing / Production
    Systems Engineer
Salary/Wage Range or Industry Benchmark: 60000 - 80000 USD Yearly USD 60000.00 80000.00 YEAR
Job Description & How to Apply Below
Arlington-Based Graduate Research Assistants (Ph.D.)

CCI seeks research and development (R&D) graduate research assistants (GRAs) to work on experimental research, testing and evaluation in advanced wireless communication networks, particularly Open Radio Access Networks (O-RAN).

GRAs wll be part of the Acceleration of Compatibility and Commercialization for Open RAN Deployments (ACCoRD) team project, working with such industry partners as AT&T , Verizon , Keysight , Fujitsu , Mavenir , Radisys , and Nokia .

GRAs will conduct testing and evaluation for new and existing solutions, while developing proof of concept, algorithm design, implementation, and testing in software and hardware.

Key

Job Requirements
  • Knowledge in computer networks
  • Programming skills in C, C++ and Script languages
  • Knowledge of cellular telecommunication systems
  • Interests in hardware-software co-design
  • Interests in experimental/applied research and prototyping

Electrical and Computer Engineer (ECE) students are preferred.

Key Job Activities
  • Deployment of end-to-end 5G network using open-source platforms
  • Deployment, implementation, analysis, and integration of multi-core environments into CCI xG Testbed software architecture
  • Development of O-RAN Non-RT-RIC and Near-RT RIC rApp/xApp/macroservice using AI/ML models
  • Integration of Prometheus open-source monitoring system to the CCI xG Testbed software architecture
  • Support edge computing configuration and implementation into CCI xG Testbed system design and architecture
  • Implementation of 5G Core VNFs instantiation (mainly AMF and UPF)
  • Implementation of O-RAN use cases for validation
  • Design and implementation of test cases
  • Write testing and evaluation reports
  • Integrate hardware and software components from different vendors as well as open-source
  • Write papers and tutorials
  • O-RAN Software Defined Radio (SDR)-based open-source reference architecture.
  • Technical report of multi-core environments into CCI xG Testbed software architecture describing performance evaluation
  • Demos and showcases based on the ACCoRD project use case multi-vendor pairing.
  • Demo of Prometheus open-source monitoring system integrated and operational at CCI xG Testbed
  • Test case suites for O-RU and O-DU OFH autonomous testing.
  • Publication in high-caliber conference and journals
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