Description:

Key Qualifications

At least 7 years of industry experience in wireless MAC systems engineering

Extensive technical background in one or more of the following:

MAC system engineering, including familiarity with media access protocols and related industry standards

Wireless MAC standards, such as those found in IEEE 802.11, 802.15, Bluetooth or 3GPP

Communications systems, including familiarity with Radio and PHY layer concepts

HW / SW partitioning and the related tradeoffs, including how to balance those for optimal power consumption, die area, flexibility, etc..

Firmware development principles and methods, including FW regression testing, QA, and protocol interoperability testing

SoC development, low power design and implementation, and digital architecture fundamentals

Excellent organizational skills

Excellent communications skills – both written and oral

Description

In this role you will be responsible for the architecture of the Connectivity IP with focus on the MAC sub-system - Define, document and Spec Connectivity MAC micro-architectures and performance requirements - Analyze & simulate the performance of the Connectivity IP in real-life use-cases achieving benchmarking performances in several metrics including Throughput, Robustness, Co-existence with other Wireless IPs and more - Working closely with other architects (PHY, Power Management, FW and SW) to introduce best in class Connectivity IP solution •Develop innovative system architectures and protocols to deliver best-in-class performance for the MAC subsystem of custom wireless silicon solutions•Introduce cross-domain features where opportunities exist for innovation to achieve enhanced performance•Produce MAC architecture, specifications and corresponding performance / reference modeling in support of digital HW and FW design and verification efforts•Develop and maintain a MAC systems infrastructure applying the best methodologies for system-level simulation, pre-silicon prototyping (including emulation and FPGA prototyping), FW QA, regression and MTBF testing, and system verification to ensure first-time design success•Support the delivery of new wireless technologies to the Product Systems teams

Education & Experience

B.Sc/ M.Sc in Electrical or Computer Engineering or Computer Science or related field