Job description
Role title: Logical Layer 1 Development Engineer
Location: Cambridge, UK and Sophia Antipolis, France
Department: Modem Software
Reporting To: Software Manager
Icera Inc has recently opened development facilities in Cambridge and Sophia Antipolis and we are looking to build a talented software engineering team in Cambridge and Sophia Antipolis to help develop our cellular software capabilities. We are looking for expertise in all software disciplines related to a complete cellular platform. We are looking for Logical Layer1 expertise to work with our development team in France, from 2G/3G/HSDPA/HSUPA today to HSPA+ and LTE in the future.
As the ideal candidate you will have significant design/implementation experience working on the Logical Layer 1 for relevant technology and most ideally on the 3GPP technologies (GSM/GPRS/EDGE/WCDMA/HSxPA, etc).
You will need a strong degree qualification (ideally 1st or 2.1) from a reputable university and a minimum 2 years ( ideally 5 years+) experience
Essential Skills
- Embedded C programming experience
- Relevant LL1 design experience
- Relevant LL1 implementation experience
- Relevant LL1 testing experience
- Experience of embedded Real-Time Operating Systems (RTOS)
Desireable Skills
- Experience of using lab based testing equipment such as R&S, Anritsu, Anite
- Experience of using real-time embedded debug tools / emulators
- Experience of GSM/WCDMA/HSxPA GCF or PTCRB approvals
- Experience of GSM/WCDMA/HSxPA Inter-Operability Testing (IOT)
- Good system architecture understanding
- On-site customer support experience
- Ability to travel for validation/customer support
- Knowledge of scripting languages such as Perl and Python
Key Responsibilities
- Design & implementation of new Layer1 enhancements/upgrades
- Maintenance of Layer1 for required functionality/performance within entire system
- Contributing to new designs/implementations for new technology developments
- Providing ‘core’ expertise/support to customer engineering group and the marketing department
- Providing ‘core’ expertise to the validation teams as the system is tested for GCF, IOT, field test approval
