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Location: Los Angeles, CA | Schedule: Full-time, Hybrid | Compensation: $180k - 250k

Overview

A rapidly growing high-tech entrepreneurial company based in West Los Angeles is seeking a Principal R&D Engineer to lead wireless technology projects. This role oversees the capture, planning, design, prototyping, and verification of advanced wireless systems, playing a central part in both technical execution and business development for the organization's R&D efforts.

What you'll do

• Provide technical management of R&D projects and programs, including overall system design and requirement specification
• Set and track development schedules and tasks
• Oversee paper design, simulation, software, FPGA, and testing efforts
• Engage directly with customers and prepare technical materials as needed
• Report to management for strategic planning and assessment purposes
• Participate in R&D business development and capture efforts, including whitepaper and proposal preparation
• Understand current technology and pitch future enhancements and strategies
• Communicate via phone, email, and in-person with government and industry contacts
• Collaborate with the senior R&D team on larger, team-wide projects
• Help set a comprehensive team-wide technology portfolio and pipeline
• Perform other related duties as needed
• When necessary, supervise a team of junior or senior engineers on a given project or R&D program

Required qualifications

• M.S. or Ph.D. in a relevant technology field (e.g., wireless communications, signal processing, statistics, optimization, networking, RF design)
• 10 years of experience in the design and development of wireless systems
• 5 years of experience in technical project leadership (e.g., principal investigator)
• Participation in the complete technology development cycle from design to field testing
• Familiarity with simulation and prototyping software such as C/C++, MATLAB, Python
• Familiarity with RF propagation, channel modeling, and digital communication
• Familiarity with wireless ad-hoc mesh networking, medium access, and routing algorithms
• Familiarity with signal processing algorithms including MIMO, OFDM, beam-nulling
• Familiarity with cognitive radio congested and contested spectrum and interference mitigation
• Familiarity with RF sensing, signal detection, and classification
• Technical writing, proposal preparation, and technical presentation skills
• Must be a U.S. person or U.S. Citizen due to clients under U.S. government contracts
• Employment contingent upon successful clearance of a background check

Preferred qualifications

• Expertise (beyond familiarity) in the listed technical skill areas is desirable

Compensation and benefits

• Compensation range: $180k - 250k

Why this role

This position offers the opportunity to lead cutting-edge wireless technology R&D, from technical design through business development, within a rapidly growing high-tech company.