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Location: Los Angeles, CA | Schedule: Full-time, hybrid (minimum 3 days on-site per week, on-site days Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday) | Compensation: $140,000 - $200,000 a year

Overview

A U.S. government contractor specializing in wireless technology is seeking a Senior Wireless Communications Systems Engineer to participate in all phases of wireless technology projects, including planning, design, implementation, prototyping, verification, and validation. This role is central to advancing the company's wireless systems from concept through field testing.

What you'll do

• Contribute to system design and requirement specification
• Lead algorithmic development, simulation, implementation, and testing
• Perform system performance simulation, benchmarking, and testing
• Conduct fixed point modeling and support FPGA design and verification
• Support FPGA and software development teams with hardware/software implementation and troubleshooting
• Lead a team of multi-disciplinary engineers for product and feature development as needed
• Set, track, and drive development schedules and tasks
• Design and participate in lab and field testing and troubleshooting
• Prepare technical materials and documentation
• Participate in R&D business development and capture efforts as needed
• Understand current products and technologies and collaborate with other teams on future enhancements and strategies
• Perform other related duties as needed
• Travel infrequently to support customer interactions or test and demonstration events

Required qualifications

• M.S. or Ph.D. in 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 in RF propagation and channel modeling
• Extensive knowledge and experience across all parts of digital communication systems, such as RF subsystems, synchronization, channel estimation, and channel coding
• Extensive knowledge of signal processing algorithms, MIMO, and OFDM
• Extensive experience modeling and mitigating RF impairments to signals such as AGC, phase noise, and frequency/clock offset
• Experience with fixed point modeling, implementation, and verification
• Expert-level MATLAB programming and simulation skills
• Must be a U.S. Citizen due to government contract requirements
• Employment is contingent upon successful clearance of a background check

Preferred qualifications

• Experience with wireless mobile ad-hoc networking, medium access, and routing algorithms
• Exposure to cognitive radio congested and contested spectrum and interference mitigation
• Experience with RF sensing, signal detection, and classification
• Strong technical writing and presentation skills

Compensation and benefits

• $140,000 - $200,000 per year

Why this role

This position offers the opportunity to lead multi-disciplinary engineering teams across the full wireless technology development cycle, from design through field testing, within a compensation range of $140,000 - $200,000 a year.