WSoC PHY/MAC Validation and Integration Engineer

About This Role

This role involves integrating and optimizing physical layer components in wireless communication systems, focusing on chip-level bring-up and Digital Signal Processing (DSP) implementation. The engineer will collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless performance, compliance, and reliability of wireless connectivity solutions.

Responsibilities

• Design, integrate and validate PHY layer components for wireless communication protocols (e.g., Bluetooth, Zigbee, UWB, etc.)
• Implement and optimize DSP algorithms for signal modulation, demodulation, filtering, and error correction to enhance wireless performance
• Conduct FPGA and chip-level bring-up, including power-on testing, debug, and validation of PHY interfaces, PHY/RF/MAC functionalities and performance
• Troubleshoot and resolve integration issues at the chip level, identifying root causes and implementing solutions
• Design, execute and automate directed PHY/MAC testing scripts, which control and setup RF test equipment and RF chips
• Validate and characterize algorithms on real silicon alongside RTL, PHY, RF, MAC, and board designers
• Bring-up and take to production state-of-the-art physical layer wireless communication system algorithms for different wireless connectivity applications
• Develop and implement test plans; collect and analyze test results; identify, root-cause, and debug issues

Requirements

• Proven experience in wireless communications, with a strong focus on PHY layer design and integration
• Solid understanding of DSP concepts and experience with implementing DSP algorithms in real-time systems
• Experience with chip-level bring-up, including familiarity with tools and techniques for hardware debugging
• Experience with PHY/RF/MAC Verification
• Experience of RF parametric testing such as EVM, ACPR, Rx sensitivity, blocker testing
• Experience with lab equipment such as network analyzer, spectrum analyzer, oscilloscopes, DMM’s
• Knowledge of wireless protocols such as Bluetooth, WLAN, UWB
• Verification skills in problem solving, constrained random testing, and debugging

Qualifications

• Proven experience in wireless communications, with a strong focus on PHY layer design and integration.

Nice to Have

• Python programming is highly desirable

Skills

* Required skills

Benefits