Applications Specialist – WiMAX/4G - Acton, MA

Job Description

Understand the applications for Azimuth’s WiMAX/4G channel emulator product line and provide applications-specific pre and post sales support. Serve as an RF specialist, creating application notes and developing application-specific solutions for Azimuth’s WiMAX/4G portfolio.

Responsibilities Include:

• Working with field applications engineers and customers to understand specific test plans and test applications 
• Creating pre-sales solutions material and technical documentation to address customers’ applications 
• Working with Azimuth engineering and marketing to help define product feature sets required to address commonly requested applications 
• Testing customers’ applications using Azimuth products and third party equipment 
• Providing post-sales technical support of WiMAX/4G related applications 
• Participating in industry specific forums such as IEEE, WiMAX Forum, and 3GPP in order to understand market needs and how they relate to Azimuth products 
• Participating in industry interoperability events and plug-fests as required

Qualifications

• Deep understanding of the PHY layer of wireless data communication standards, such as WiMAX, 3G, 4G technologies, WiFi, etc. 
• Understanding of RF propagation including system link budgets 
• Strong understanding of digital communications including modulation and coding, multi-path and fading channels, capacity, receiver performance, MIMO and beam-forming, etc. 
• Experience with software tools including Matlab, C programming, TCL or other scripts, automation 
• Experience with a variety of laboratory test equipment, including network analyzers, signal generators, vector signal analyzers, power meters, etc. 
• Previous experience with data communications test equipment a strong plus 
• Previous experience with channel / fading emulators, channel modeling a strong plus 
• MSEE preferred, BSEE required 
• Entrepreneurial, studious, and energetic mentality 
• Startup experience a strong plus 
• Excellent oral and written communication skills. Ability to make presentations to customers and industry forums. 
• 30% travel worldwide including customer travel and industry forums