Hardware Senior Principal Consultant (Radio Performance)

Duration: 1 year long contract, possibility of conversion to fulltime

Location: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Onsite/Hybrid/Remote: Onsite.

Job Description:

• Characterize radio components and assist in creating models and soft compensation factors/functions.

• Calibrate radios to meet performance and stability.

• Work with power amplifier designers to bias and tune the power amplifier.

• Work with designers to understand the radio link budget and integrate the radio components for performance and stability.

• Tuning of DPD and CFR algorithms.

• Assist the data path bring up from eCPRI to transceiver.

• Characterize radio performance/behaviour over temperature.

Essential Requirements:

• 5+ years of relevant experience or equivalent combination of education and work experience.

• Knowledge and understanding of standards and requirements for cellular systems (LTE, NR) such as 3GPP and FCC.

• Fundamental understanding of digital signal processing, telecommunications, and microwave circuits.

• Experience with MATLAB and Python programming

• Experience with Automation

• Experience working with instruments such as spectrum analyzers, signal generators, power meters, network analyzers, oscilloscopes, and power supplies

• Knowledge of fundamental RF measurements related to RX and TX.

• Experience working with radio components such as power amplifiers, FPGAs, Transceivers and RF filters.

• Experience working with RF equipment such as couplers, combiners, and attenuators.

• Experience working with Raspberry Pis, ARM processors or equivalent.