6G Wireless & Sensing Scientist — SDR MIMO Research (PhD)

AUSTRIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY GMBH; Wien; Hybrid; EUR 51,000 - 62,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

PhD opportunity to pursue

Conference travel

Flexitime with home office

Job summary

AIT Austrian Institute of Technology in Vienna invites researchers to join the Center for Digital Safety and Security, focusing on 6G wireless communication and sensing. You will work on real-time experiments and SDR-based testbeds with open-source tools.

The role includes publishing results, collaborating with European partners, and pursuing a PhD at TU Wien while employed as a Scientist.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree or PhD in telecommunications, CS or electrical engineering.
• Experience in multi-static MIMO UAV sensing, quantum sensing with NV centers or multimodal sensing using fiber optic networks.
• Hands-on RF lab experimentation and PCB design.
• Excellent knowledge of signal processing, RF propagation modeling, AI/ML and numerical simulation software.
• Good command of English; German an advantage.

Responsibilities

• Develop numerical signal processing algorithms for mobile 5G/6G ISAC scenarios and validate with SDR testbeds.
• Conduct algorithm research and participate in designing real-time experiments.
• Establish a 6G distributed MIMO sensing testbed based on SDR with GNU Radio, RFNoC and LabVIEW (0.4–20 GHz).
• Evaluate results and prepare for further study; publish in journals and present at conferences.
• Collaborate with international partners and expand your professional network through European projects.

Skills

RF lab experimentation

PCB design

Signal processing

RF propagation modeling

AI/ML

Numerical simulation

FPGA programming

English proficiency

Team collaboration

Education

Master’s or PhD in EE/CS

Tools

GNU Radio

LabVIEW

RFNoC

MATLAB

Python

Job description

AIT Austrian Institute of Technology in Vienna invites researchers to join the Center for Digital Safety and Security, focusing on 6G wireless communication and sensing. You will work on real-time experiments and SDR-based testbeds with open-source tools.

The role includes publishing results, collaborating with European partners, and pursuing a PhD at TU Wien while employed as a Scientist.