Senior Wireless Communications Systems Engineer

Senior Wireless Communication Systems Engineer

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.

· System design and requirement specification.

· Algorithmic development, simulation, implementation, and testing.

· System performance simulation, benchmarking, 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.

· 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.

· Wireless mobile ad-hoc networking, medium access, and routing algorithms.

· Cognitive radio congested and contested spectrum and interference mitigation.

· RF sensing, signal detection, and classification, etc.

· Technical writing and presentation.

140k-200k/annual