Senior Staff Engineer - 5G Systems Engineer

Qualcomm India Private Limited

This lead engineering position provides an opportunity to drive 5G/5G-Adv/LTE systems performance characterization/optimization, over the air (OTA) field trials of new features/finetuning, support new technologies discussions/demos spanning NTN, 6G, ISAC among others, and work closely with leading wireless operators, infrastructure vendors and RD Teams on cutting-edge wireless technologies. Responsibilities also include working with network equipment providers to resolve any inter-operability issues, evaluating system performance including coverage, capacity, and mobility on the OTA network. Additional areas of responsibility include design, optimization, capacity estimation, and management, debugging of air-interface and core-network issues, system parameter recommendations, participating in new technology inter-operativity tests and field trials in conjunction with RD teams, lab performance studies, authoring white-papers and documents on new wireless technologies and standards. The candidate shall have an academic background in digital communications, wireless and computer communication networks. Candidate should also have expertise in machine learning to support extraction of key value from logs/data collected. You will be part or lead the processes from data collection, filtering, and preprocessing, to training the models and deploying them to production and use. Therefore, the ideal candidate will be enthusiastic about artificial intelligence and stay up to date with the latest developments in the field.

The successful candidate should have the ability to understand detailed technical designs, implementations and issues related to 6G/5G-Adv/5G/LTE technologies. The candidate should be able to provide onsite support to mobile operators worldwide participating in and driving roll out and enhancements of 6G/5G-Adv/5G/LTE networks for optimal system performance and user experience for key/evolving applications.

We are looking for highly motivated individuals who are excited by the prospect of working on cutting-edge 6G/5GAdv/5G technologies/evolutions, AI/ML algorithms, have high willingness to learn new things, and the ability to innovate. Candidate needs to have excellent communication, presentation, and customer management skills. Candidate needs to have ability to coordinate and work across multiple Qualcomm teams and customers. Also needs to be flexible to travel (up to 30% both domestic and international).