Senior Channel Coding Research Engineer

Lab Summary:

The Standards & Mobility Innovation team is committed to developing technologies that enable ubiquitous access to information and provide immersive multimedia experiences for mobility users.

Position Summary:

Our research focuses on:

• Wireless standards and technology including 5G/6G, Wi-Fi, FiRa/UWB, etc.
• RF & fast prototyping of 5G/6G and IEEE 802 wireless systems and/or use cases
• Multimedia standards and technology including VR, HDR, All-IP delivery
• IoT standards and Smart Home connectivity/sensing technology

Position Responsibilities:

• Perform research for next generation wireless communication technologies and systems with focus on channel coding and forward error correction.
• Improve existing channel codes, e.g. 5G LDPC and polar codes, and design novel codes for high spectral efficiency, low latency and low-power consumption.
• Evaluate the developed technologies to demonstrate the improved performance.

Required Skills:

• PhD in Electrical Engineering with focus on channel-coding research or equivalent combination of education, training, and experience.
• Solid theoretical knowledge and background on channel coding (LDPC, Polar codes, etc.), information theory, modulations, and wireless communications.
• Solid knowledge and experiences on practical aspects of channel codes design, advanced encoding and decoding algorithms and physical layer procedures.
• Proven skills in Matlab, Python and/or C/C for algorithm development and link-level simulations.
• Ability to clearly define high level requirements and criteria to be used in the evaluation of channel-coding techniques.
• Ability to generate clear and organized technical submissions (presentations as well as contribution text documents) for standards-bodies.
• Working understanding of the systems engineering and architecture concepts of advanced mobile cellular networks.
• Excellent verbal communication skills to effectively represent the derived results and technical concepts developed in the course of the work.
• IEEE 802 and 3GPP standards knowledge, experience desired