Wireless Communication Systems Engineer

About the role

Silvus is seeking a Wireless Communication Systems Engineer to join the R&D team. The role reports to the R&D Director, Communications Systems.

Responsibilities

• System design and requirement specification.
• Algorithmic development, simulation, and characterization.
• System performance simulation, benchmarking, and testing.
• Supporting FPGA and Software development teams through fixed point design, implementation and test.
• Leading a team of multi-disciplinary engineers for product and feature development as needed.
• Setting, tracking, and driving development schedules and tasks.
• Planning and participation in laboratory and field testing and troubleshooting.
• Techical material preparation and documentation.
• Participation in R&D business development and capture efforts as needed.
• Understanding current products and technologies and participation in discussion and planning for future enhancements and strategies.
• Infrequent travel to support customer interactions or test and demonstration events.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Communications Engineering, Computer Science, or a related engineering field with a minimum of three years of experience in the design and development of wireless communication systems; or a Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Communications Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.
• Experience with wireless communication protocols and modem architecture, including PHY, MAC, and higher-layer interactions.
• Working knowledge of RF propagation, channel modeling, and wireless channel characteristics.
• Strong understanding of digital communication and signal processing techniques, including MIMO, OFDM, synchronization, channel estimation, equalization, and related algorithms.
• Understanding of RF impairments and their impact on wireless communication systems, including AGC, phase noise, frequency and clock offset, IQ imbalance, and compensation techniques.
• Proficiency in MATLAB for algorithm development, modeling, simulation, and performance analysis.
• 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

• Wireless mobile ad-hoc networking, medium access, and routing algorithms.
• Participation in the complete wireless technology development cycle: from design to field testing.
• Comprehensive expertise in all parts of digital communication systems such as RF subsystems, synchronizations, channel estimation, channel coding, etc.
• Cognitive radio congested and contested spectrum and interference mitigation.
• Experience with fixed point modeling, implementation, and verification.
• RF sensing, signal detection, and classification, etc.
• Technical writing and presentation.

Compensation

$100,000 - $140,000 / annually

Basic Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Communications Engineering, Computer Science, or a related engineering field with a minimum of three years of experience in the design and development of wireless communication systems; or a Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Communications Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.
• Proficiency in MATLAB for algorithm development, modeling, simulation, and performance analysis.
• 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.

Travel Requirements

Under 10%