Manager, Wireless Research

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Manager, Wireless Research

Nearly 70 years ago, Masaru Ibuka founded our great company with just one, primary motive:  "to create a stable work environment where engineers who have a deep and profound appreciation for technology can realize their societal mission and work to their heart's content.”  Today, we not only celebrate the enduring history of our world-changing products and the prodigious minds behind them, but seek far and wide to rally the most talented and passionate engineers in the world to our cause.  Together, we work as "One Sony", built and driven by engineering; intensely focused on delivering the experiences that put that beaming smile on our customers’ faces, time after time.

Sony R&D US Laboratory, San Jose, CA in Sony Corporate of America is seeking to welcome the best and the brightest into our world-class R&D team, and if you’re up to the challenge, we’d love to see what you’ve got.  We’re inventing right here the technology and products that go on to touch customer’s lives all over the world. Sony has vision to prepare the wireless communication technologies to provide immersive entertainment contents for the customers in the world. 

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES 

·       Build and lead a new Wireless LAN standardization team and lead the team to advance the state-of-the-art in the wireless technology, including generating patents.

·       Engage with standard bodies and OSS community to make technical contributions.

·       Identify research directions and new research areas to realize Sony vision.

·       Collaborate with our global teams in the world to reach optimal outcome.

·       Honesty, trust, and strong ethics are required for the responsibilities listed above.

QUALIFICATIONS  

Your qualifications and experience should include:  

·       Master Degree in Electrical / Communication Engineering or in Computer Science with at least 10+ years of related work or research experience (or Ph.D. Degree with at least 5+ years of related work or research experience).

·       Excellent wireless communication background including all system or link level aspects.

·       Experience on wireless LAN systems, cellular systems, sensor network technologies, distributed networking technologies, or wireless PAN systems with excellent research record is required.

·       Experience on wireless LAN (IEEE802.11) MAC/PHY layers protocol design and/or analysis is preferred. A good knowledge of wireless LAN protocol is required.

·       Experience on standard development (WLAN (802.11be/11ax/11ac,..) or 3GPP (RAN1/RAN2), etc.) is preferred.

·       Experience on link level or system level simulation (i.e., ns-3, OPNET) is required.

·       Experience on open source software, such as OpenWiFi, is a plus.

·       Experience on cross-layer system design is a plus.

·       Essential programming language knowledge, such as Matlab, C/C++, Python is required.

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