5G/6G Embedded Sys Design - Principal Engineer / Lead Engineer / Senior Engineer / Engineer

The Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute (ASTRI) was founded by the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region in 2000 with the mission of enhancing Hong Kong’s competitiveness through applied research. ASTRI’s core R&D competence in various areas is grouped under five Technology Divisions: Communications Technologies, Artificial Intelligence and Trust Technologies, Advanced Electronic Components and Systems, IoT Sensing and AI Technologies, and Innovative Mind.

It is applied across six core areas which are Smart City, Financial Technologies, New Industrialisation and Intelligent Manufacturing, Digital Health, Application Specific Integrated Circuits, and Metaverse.

Over the years, ASTRI has nurtured a pool of research, I&T talents and received numerous international awards for its pioneering innovations as well as outstanding business and community contributions.

To date, ASTRI has transferred almost 1400 technologies to the industries and been granted more than 1000 patents in the Mainland, the US, and other countries.

Job Responsibilities:

• Participate and contribute to physical layer (PHY) DSP solution development in multiple platforms in ASTRI’s 5G/6G R&D projects
• Engage in activities including the followings:
  • Develop high performance wireless communications digital signal processing (DSP) solutions for 5G/6G L1 Physical (PHY) layer
  • Real time system implementation and optimization with hardware acceleration platforms
  • Optimize and troubleshoot DSP solutions in target platforms to fulfil high performance and real time deadline requirements
  • Troubleshoot and setup hardware platforms for development
  • Build up know-hows on 5G/6G standardization

Job Requirements:

• PhD holder or Master or Bachler’s in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Information Engineering, Telecommunications or relevant disciplines
• Successfully completed the undergraduate/postgraduate program
• Fresh graduates may also be considered as Engineering Associate (w/ Bachelor academic credential), Engineer (w/ Master academic credential), or Senior Engineer (w/ PhD academic credential)
• Experiences in programming language such as C/C++, Assembly, are preferred
• Knowledge of wireless communications standard, such as 5/6G, ORAN, WiFi, Bluetooth a plus
• Knowledge of DSP/embedded system programming and optimization a plus
• Experiences in Real Time software development a plus
• Experiences in Linux platform development a plus
• Experiences in embedded system development in ARM/X86 platform development a plus
• Experiences in programming/scripting language such as Python, C# a plus
• Lives ASTRI values

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The appointment will be on renewable contract terms with a competitive salary and performance-linked variable pay. Fringe benefits include paid leave, medical, insurance coverage and contribution to MPF. The incumbent will normally work a five-day week.

For interested parties, please submit your application with detailed CV within two weeks of the post date. Applicants are encouraged to submit their applications as soon as possible. The review of applications will continue until post is filled.

The resume should not include any sensitive personal information such as ID card no. or passport number, photo, etc.

Position offer is subject to the applicant’s experience and academic qualification. Only short-listed candidates will be notified. ASTRI reserves the right not to fill the position.

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