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5G Layer 1 Principal Developer

Competitive Salary

Ottawa Canada

Remote position until our facilities re-open in Ottawa

Dell provides the technology that transforms the way we all work and live. But we are more than a technology company — we are a people company. We inspire, challenge and respect every one of our over 100,000 employees. We also provide them with unparalleled growth and development opportunities.

From applied research to advanced engineering, Dell’s 5G R&D team will design and develop ground-breaking products & solutions, as a first-ever go-to-market for Dell in this space. It’s a fascinating field of work. You will be involved in assessing the competition, developing technology and products and generating intellectual property. Your contributions will drive product architecture and implementation in support of building something from the ground up, all while working with colleagues across the business to ensure Dell products always lead the way.

Role Summary

If you’re interested in taking part in a once in a career opportunity, Dell is looking for a Principal Developer with advanced expertise in 5G Radio, owning performance and capacity models for the Distribution Unit and Central unit and leading recommendations for device selection, to be part of a brand new, built from the ground up, high powered Ottawa R&D team. The team will be responsible for designing, developing and implementing a technology new to Dell for addressing the demands of the 5G Radio subsystem for operators and to help our customers to exploit this significant market evolution. The candidate for this role will have significant work experience in 5G wireless development, 4G R&D, mobile systems, and 3GPP as well as a strong background in baseband algorithms and mapping software functions to hardware.

Key Responsibilities Include:

• Own performance, capacity, reliability, scalability, and energy efficiency models for the Distribution Unit and Central unit

• Make technical recommendations for commercial off-the-shelf CPUs, DSPs, GPUs, and NPUs as applied to baseband processing algorithms for LTE and NR

• Own functional specifications for the bring-up, integration, and optimization of CPU, DSP, GPU, NPU, and custom devices

• Facilitate the integration of third-party device drivers

• Recommend distributed processing and data models

• Know and apply commercial practices to evaluate and optimize reliability

• Understand and embed security

• Anticipate, analyze, and simulate where appropriate, product implications arising from candidate devices, including impacts to software, algorithms, real-time, data transfer requirements, network performance, reliability, energy efficiency, standards compliance, and regulatory compliance

• Act as a single point of contact for CPU, DSP, GPU, and NPU devices, driving, facilitating, and coordinating effective two-way information sharing between vendors and Dell

• Maintain roadmaps for compatible technology line-ups, existing and emerging

Additional Responsibilities May Include:

• Advise on custom hardware accelerators

• Advise and drive where needed the planning, organization, execution, and visualization of board bring-up, integration, and optimization

• Evaluate and advise on commercial technology, vendor reference designs, third-party IP, partner designs, and OEM proposals

• Work closely with suppliers, component engineers, sourcing primes, and contract manufacturing houses

• Engage solutions that manage cost while maintaining quality, performance, and yield

• Collaborate closely throughout the development process to jointly establish top-level product characteristics and technology selections

• Ensure consistent high standards across in-house design, contracted design work, third-party partnerships, and OEM solutions

• Drive solutions aligned with 3GPP and O-RAN Alliance (O-RAN) specifications for 4G and 5G networks in the open RAN ecosystem

• Leader at the center of internal teams and many different external collaboration models ranging from contacted design, co-design partnerships, to turn-key OEM sourcing of broadband 4G and 5G radio products

• Guide product definition to efficient and effective solutions with compelling customer value in real network deployments

Essential Skills and Expertise/Experience:

• Proven record of working on large mobile network systems either as a member of a network equipment manufacturer or as a radio technology provider

• Expert in real-time and interconnect modelling

• Experienced in the CPU, DSP, GPU, and NPU third-party device market

• Experienced in baseband algorithms

• Familiar with the bring-up and integration of CPU, DSP, GPU, and NPU devices

• Familiar with commercial practices to evaluate and optimize reliability

• Familiar with security in Ethernet, IP, and remote load management

• Familiar with energy efficiency solutions

• Detailed understanding of 3GPP specifications and worldwide spectrum and telecommunications regulations

• Wireless expert with strong hands-on technical skills and the demonstrated ability to work across disparate groups including sales, operations, product management, and engineering

• Organized, goal-oriented technical leader to lead, follow, and effectively collaborate with knowledgeable development peers and business partners.

• Knowledge in 4G and 5G Radio and/or subsystems architecture, implementation and ecosystem

Minimum Experience and Education:

7+ years of relevant experience or equivalent combination of education and work experience. Typically requires 5+ years diversified experience in the evaluation, systemization, design, and integration of circuits using CPUs, DSPs, GPUs, and NPUs in realizing baseband algorithms.

Dell Technologies is a unique family of businesses that helps organizations and individuals build their digital future and transform how they work, live and play—providing customers with the industry’s broadest and most innovative technology and services portfolio. We value our customers, winning together, innovation, results and integrity. Grow your career with a highly competitive salary, bonus programs, world-class benefits and unparalleled learning and development opportunities— all at a company that is proud to be diverse and inclusive. Learn more on how we are closing the diversity gap here. (https://jobs.dell.com/diversity-and-inclusion)

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