LEAD ENGINEER - PS LAYER 1
IN
Job Summary
• Person at this position takes ownership of a module and associated quality and delivery. Person at this position provides instructions, guidance and advice to team members to ensure quality and on time delivery.
• Person at this position is expected to be able to instruct and review the quality of work done by technical staff.
• Person at this position should be able to identify key issues and challenges by themselves, prioritize the tasks and deliver results with minimal direction and supervision.
• Person at this position has the ability to investigate the root cause of the problem and come up alternatives/ solutions based on sound technical foundation gained through in-depth knowledge of technology, standards, tools and processes.
• Person has the ability to organize and draw connections among ideas and distinguish between those which are implementable.
• Person demonstrates a degree of flexibility in resolving problems/ issues that atleast to in-depth command of all techniques, processes, tools and standards within the relevant field of specialisation.
Roles & Responsibilities
• Responsible for requirement analysis and feasibility study including system level work estimation while considering risk identification and mitigation.
• Responsible for design, coding, testing, bug fixing, documentation and technical support in the assigned area. Responsible for on time delivery while adhering to quality and productivity goals.
• Responsible for traceability of the requirements from design to delivery Code optimization and coverage.
• Responsible for conducting reviews, identifying risks and ownership of quality of deliverables.
• Responsible for identifying training needs of the team.
• Expected to enhance technical capabilities by attending trainings, self-study and periodic technical assessments.
• Expected to participate in technical initiatives related to project and organization and deliver training as per plan and quality.
• Expected to be a technical mentor for junior members.
• Person may be given additional responsibility of managing people based on discretion of Project Manager.
Education and Experience Required
Engineering graduate, MCA, etc Experience: 5-8 years
Competencies Description
"Layer-1 - Modem engineer is one who designs, develops and maintains physical layer signal processing chain in 2G, 3G, TDS-CDMA, 4G, 5G technologies. Typically the work is done on DSP/ARM/Accelerator based RTOS proprietary platforms using a combination of C, C++ and Assembly language.
Area of Layer-1 work: L1-Controller, Baseband Algorithms, Channel Codec, RF, Timing and Layer-1 system Drivers, Layer-1 interfaces and abstractions.
Nature of work: Architecture, Design, Bug Fixing/Sustenance, Integration, Algorithm simulations, porting, Profiling and optimizations."
Platforms-
"HW Platforms: Customer proprietary platforms or standard platforms like TI, Freescale, Atmel paltforms, ARM, MIPS and DSP based platforms, FPGA based platforms, etc.
SW Platforms: Linux, RTOS, Multi thread and multi process architectures."
Technology Standard-
"3GPP physical layer specs for 3GPP specializations
SATCOM physical layer specs for SATCOM specializations"
Tools-
"Platform specific tool chains e.g. TI CCS
Compiler tool chain e.g. GNU compilers
Host and Target specific debug tool chains e.g. gdb, JTAG tools
CM tools like Git, Bitbucket, SVN, CVS, Clearcase, etc.
Project management tools like Jira, Bugzilla, SDP, etc.
Simulation tools like Matlab, Network Stubs/Simulation, etc.
Unit test frameworks - customer specific, GoogleTest, etc.
Test equipments like Anite, Anritsu, R&S, VSA, VSG, etc."
Languages-
"C/C++,
Optional Assembly,
Optional scripting like bash/perl/python,
Optional Matlab"
Specialization-
2G, 3G, 4G, 5G, VSAT-SATCOM
