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.
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