About this role
Job title: Wireless Communication Systems Engineer
About the Role Silvus Technologies, a leading provider of MANET and MIMO communications systems and a subsidiary of Motorola Solutions, seeks a Wireless Communication Systems Engineer to join the R&D team in West Los Angeles. The role involves participating in all phases of wireless technology projects—planning, design, prototyping, verification, and validation—with opportunities to lead cross-disciplinary engineering efforts as needed.
What You'll Do
- 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
- Technical material preparation and documentation
- Participation in R&D business development and capture efforts as needed
- Understanding current products and planning for future enhancements and strategies
- Infrequent travel to support customer interactions or test and demonstration events
What We're Looking For
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Communications Engineering, Computer Science, or related 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 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
- Solid understanding of digital communication and signal processing techniques, including MIMO, OFDM, synchronization, channel estimation, equalization
- 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
Nice to Have
- 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 & Benefits
- Salary range: USD 100,000 - 140,000 per year
- Pay within this range varies and depends on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The actual offer will be based on the individual candidate.