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Silvus Technologies (International)

Location:
United States, Los Angeles

Category:
Research and Development

Contract Type:
Not provided

Salary:

180000.00 - 250000.00 USD / Year

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Job Description:

Silvus is seeking a Principal R&D Engineer who will report to the Vice President of Research & Development on the R&D team. The successful individual in this role will oversee and participate in the planning, design, implementation, prototyping, and verification of wireless technology projects.

Job Responsibility:

Technical management of Research and Development projects and programs
Responsibility for overall system design and requirement specification
Setting and tracking development schedules and tasks
Participating in the hands-on design, simulation, and verification work
Overseeing relevant simulation, software, FPGA, and testing efforts
Customer-facing engagement and technical material preparation when needed
Reporting to management, as required for strategic planning and assessment
Participate in Research and Development business development and capture efforts
Whitepaper and proposal preparation
Understand current technology and pitch future enhancements and strategies
Communicate (telephone/email/in-person) engagement with government and industry
Work collaboratively within the senior Research and Development team
Executing larger, team-wide projects
Setting a comprehensive team-wide technology portfolio and pipeline
Supervise a team of engineers to fulfill functions or project needs
Participate in the drafting of job descriptions and screening/ interviewing engineering candidates

Requirements:

MS. or Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related communication and/or engineering technology field (i.e., wireless communications, signal processing, networking, RF design, etc.)
Minimum 10 years of experience in the design and development of wireless systems
5 years of demonstrated experience in technical project leadership (i.e., principal investigator)
Participation in the complete technology development cycle: design to field testing
Must be a U.S. Citizen due to clients under U.S. government contracts
All employment is contingent upon the successful clearance of a background check

Nice to have:

Simulation and prototyping software: C/C++, MATLAB, Python, etc.
Radio frequency propagation, channel modeling, digital communication
Wireless ad-hoc mesh networking, medium access, and routing algorithms
Signal processing algorithms, MIMO, OFDM, beam-nulling, etc.
Cognitive radio congested and contested spectrum, interference mitigation
Radio frequency sensing, signal detection, classification, etc.
Technical writing, proposal preparation, and technical presentation

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
December 12, 2025

Employment Type:

Fulltime

Work Type:

Hybrid work

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