Qualcomm
RF & Channel Emulation Systems Engineer
$117K–$175K
Boulder, Colorado · On-site · Full-time · Posted Oct 27, 2026
- Experience
- Bachelor’s: 2+ years; master’s: 1+ year; PhD: no additional work-experience minimum stated.
- Education
- Bachelor’s, master’s, or PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field. Graduate-level classes, equivalent training, or experience in specified technical subjects.
About the job
Designs and validates RF and channel-emulation architectures for Qualcomm’s test base-station solutions used to verify 5G NR and LTE chipsets, with 6G in development.
What you'll do
- Analyze specifications and translate requirements into RF/analog architectures, calibration, and analog/digital compensation.
- Simulate and evaluate features and implementation options, then integrate and analyze RF and channel-emulation features in the lab.
- Document and present designs and results, build cross-team consensus, and support implementation and commercialization with test vectors, logs, and analysis.
What they ask for
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field plus 2+ years of relevant work experience; OR master’s degree in one of those fields plus 1+ year; OR PhD in one of those fields.
- Graduate-level classes, equivalent training, or experience in the listed signal-processing, wireless, communications, and RF subjects.
- Programming in C/C++, Matlab and Python.
- Knowledge of 5G NR and LTE physical-layer specifications.
Nice to have
- Master’s or Doctorate in Electrical Engineering.
- Knowledge of mixed-signal RF components and impairments, fading and deterministic channel models, OFDMA and SC-FDMA, and RF interfaces and digital mitigation of RF distortion.
Pay
$116,600.00 - $174,800.00 (base salary)
Tools
C/C++, Matlab, Python, 5G NR, LTE, OFDMA, SC-FDMA, ADC
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