Senior Principal DOCSIS Engineer

Make your mark at Comcast -- a Fortune 30 global media and technology company. From the connectivity and platforms we provide, to the content and experiences we create, we reach hundreds of millions of customers, viewers, and guests worldwide. Become part of our award-winning technology team that turns big ideas into cutting-edge products, platforms, and solutions that our customers love. We create space to innovate, and we recognize, reward, and invest in your ideas, while ensuring you can proudly bring your authentic self to the workplace. Join us. You’ll do the best work of your career right here at Comcast. (In most cases, Comcast prefers to have employees on-site collaborating unless the team has been designated as virtual due to the nature of their work. If a position is listed with both office locations and virtual offerings, Comcast may be willing to consider candidates who live greater than 100 miles from the office for the remote option.)

Job Summary

Responsible for identifying complex problems across multiple platforms and projects within one or more areas of research and developing algorithms to solve them. Evaluates accuracy and functionality of algorithms and evaluates the overall implications of entire frameworks. Contributes to internal strategy and roadmap for one or more areas of research. Promotes areas of research internally and externally. May present at external meetings. Responsible for overseeing design, implementation and evaluation of future products and applications. Guides multiple engineering teams to successfully deploy and operate products and applications. Provides guidance and leadership to other researchers in developing novel ways to solve problems and discover new products. Collaborates and influences teams and works cross functionally. Integrates knowledge of business and functional priorities. Acts as a key contributor in a complex and crucial environment. Leads teams and projects and shares expertise.

Job Description

The Technology, Product, Experience (TPX) organization works at the intersection of media and technology and our innovative teams are continually developing and delivering products and next-generation technologies that transform the customer experience.

The Comcast Network and CONNECTivity (CONNECT) organization is a highly agile, fast-paced, dedicated group at the forefront of change focused on innovating, building, and operating the best in class, most reliable access network for our customers.

About the Role:

Bring a combination of HFC infrastructure, Hardware, Systems Integration Test and modern software expertise to develop, integrate, test, support, and apply your craft to help build the next generation of HFC RF and optical infrastructure and participate in the development of industry-leading network enhancements that will maximize broadband capacity.  Contribute to a team that is building the next generation of 10G DOCSIS 4.0 Full-Duplex Technology increasing capacity and spectral efficiency

Responsible for systems integration, test planning and execution, and lab resource management for cutting edge access network solutions, innovating, and integrating access network technologies across multiple disciplines, all lines of business and constantly seeking to improve the network performance and quality of experience of subscribers.

Where can you make an impact?

Our team works in a highly technically challenging domain that shapes the future of Comcast that thrives in big challenges, results, quality, and agility. This is a critical role responsible for organizing and leading integration activity for reference designs, proof-of-concept prototypes, release candidates, and verification of generally available production solutions in the lab, trial, and production field deployments. 

We are looking for a broad mix of skills and interests ranging from networking skills, Lab Management, Test planning and execution, RF HFC, DOCSIS, and software to engaging cross-domain development teams with systems architecture and DOCSIS subject matter expertise. 

Come work with the leading broadband experts who have pioneered the current and future of broadband access technology!

What You’ll Do:

• Evaluate and discover network and service design challenges and design innovative solutions to some key HFC challenges with the use of new and optimization of existing network infrastructure. 
• Lead and collaborate with the R&D team to design and organize testing plans, lab facilities, resources, and execution. 
• Build lab test systems to evaluate new hardware and software supporting distributed access architecture, specify design and operations guidelines, and support testing and validation teams. 
• Work with program and operations resources to track and satisfy entrance criteria to execute field t