Senior Baseband System Engineer

Responsibilities

• You will serve as a key technical contributor in the research, definition, analysis, and evolution of next-generation wireless baseband systems.
• Baseband System Architecture Define end-to-end baseband architectures and system requirements for 5G evolution and next-generation wireless systems.
• Translate product and algorithm requirements into compute, latency, throughput, memory, power, and acceleration requirements.
• Define functional partitioning and interfaces across Layer 1, DSP, CPU, accelerators, memory, and SoC subsystems.
• Analyze architecture trade-offs in performance, flexibility, complexity, power, and cost.
• Wireless System & Performance Analysis Analyze advanced wireless algorithms including Massive MIMO, beamforming, channel estimation, MIMO detection, coding, HARQ, link adaptation, and advanced receivers.
• Translate algorithm workloads into compute, memory, timing, data-flow, and accelerator requirements.
• Perform system-level performance analysis covering throughput, latency, compute utilization, memory bandwidth, and power efficiency.
• Identify system bottlenecks and drive architecture optimization through modeling, simulation, and quantitative analysis.
• Next-Generation Technology Research Investigate emerging technologies for 5G-Advanced and 6G baseband systems, including advanced PHY architectures, heterogeneous computing, baseband acceleration, memory-centric computing, and energy-efficient architectures.
• Track academic research, standards, industry trends, and competitor developments.
• Evaluate new architecture concepts through system studies and proof-of-concept activities.
• Contribute to long-term baseband technology and architecture roadmaps.
• AI/ML for Wireless Evaluate AI/ML-based wireless techniques such as channel estimation, receivers, MIMO detection, beam management, and link adaptation.
• Analyze their compute, memory, latency, and accelerator requirements.
• Study efficient integration of advanced accelerators into future baseband SoCs.

Requirements

• Minimum 5 years of relevant industry experience.
• Strong understanding of wireless baseband processing and system architecture.
• Ability to analyze complex workloads and derive system-level architecture requirements.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
• Ability to translate research concepts into practical engineering solutions.

Preferred

• Technical Expertise Strong knowledge of 4G/5G NR, Layer 1, Massive MIMO, beamforming, MIMO processing, coding, HARQ, and link adaptation.
• Experience in performance modeling, workload analysis, and software–hardware co-design.
• Knowledge of RISC-V, domain-specific accelerators, advanced DSPs, chiplets, or AI/ML for wireless is a plus.

Preferred

Experience in baseband system architecture, real-time processing, and heterogeneous computing. Good understanding of CPU/DSP/ASIC/accelerator architectures, memory hierarchy, and hardware/software partitioning.

Qualifications

PhD, MSc, or equivalent degree in Electrical Engineering, Wireless Communication, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.

Personal Attributes Strong system-level thinking across algorithm, software, hardware, and architecture domains.

Self-driven and motivated to explore future wireless technologies. Other The candidates should have highly developed skills in finding new innovative solutions, strategic visions and ability of leading and driving activities.

Location

Stockholm, Sweden For more information regarding the position: Tommy Deng phone: +46 739200807 Email: [email protected] Elisabeth Ekström HR Specialist E-mail: [email protected]