IODT Engineer

Location: 6555 Excellence Way, Plano, TX, USA

Position Summary

This role is not eligible for immigration sponsorship

Headquartered in Plano, TX, Samsung Electronics America (SEA) is a leader in mobile technologies, consumer electronics, home appliances, enterprise solutions and networks systems. Across each of these areas, our work drives innovation, economic growth and workforce opportunity in the United States.

For nearly five decades, Samsung has been at the forefront of technological advancements, investing over $100 billion and creating more than 20,000 jobs nationwide. Our mission? To integrate cutting-edge products, services, and AI technology to deliver smarter, sustainable, and more connected experiences that empower people to live better.

As a wholly owned subsidiary of Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., SEA offers opportunities to work alongside global visionary thinkers and innovators who are passionate about making a difference. Explore the exciting opportunities at Samsung Electronics America and discover how you can make an impact.

This summer you will have an exciting opportunity to work in our Technology Solutions team responsible for working with wireless carriers & ecosystem partners to help realize the promise of next generation 5G wireless networks. You will support interoperability testing of complex 3GPP features against various Device Chipset partners. Perform feature validation and system performance analysis for our 5G network products.

This position requires working with new wireless technologies. If you thrive on analyzing hard and complex problems, then this could be a great fit for you.

Role and Responsibilities

• Perform Interop testing on NW with Various Device Chipset ecosystem partners to validate against 3GPP standards.
• Validate / Analyze PHY, MAC, RLC, RRC and PDCP layer protocol to test and debug complex new features
• E2E System validation, verification and technical support of the 5G NR RAN network.
• Support the team on early field evaluation of new features and New Techology trials.
• Perform a detailed analysis of the outcome of the validation activities which may require troubleshooting of potential issues

Skills and Qualifications

• Master’s Electrical Engineering, or related technical field. Cumulative GPA 3.0 or above
• In-Depth Understanding of Wireless communications and Wireless networks
• Knowledge of HW as well as SW architecture
• Need an understanding of overall Wireless 3GPP systems protocols with emphasis on PHY, MAC, RLC, RRC and PDCP layers
• Knowledge of Pre-6G, 5G and 4G air interface and call processing technologies and network architecture specifically focused on Radio Access Network.
• Knowledge of GPU-accelerated platforms, the O-RAN Alliance architecture, and the Radio Intelligent Controller (RIC) framework.
• Good to have 4G/5G Call Processing and in-depth knowledge of Wireless Protocol.