Radio Systems Research Engineer

NOKIA; New Providence (NJ); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Nokia Bell Labs in the United States seeks a research engineer to design, implement, and validate radio system concepts and algorithms.

You will translate research into robust prototypes, work with domain experts, and document results for product and standards teams.

Qualifications

• Master's degree in electrical engineering or related field.
• Knowledge of wireless physical-layer incl. massive MIMO, beamforming or precoding, channel estimation, scheduling, or related techniques.
• Experience with real-time systems across latency and resource efficiency using reproducible methods.
• Ability to translate research into robust prototypes and communicate architecture choices to teams.
• Demonstrated GPU/CPU performance engineering with CUDA or equivalent, including kernel optimization and latency analysis.

Responsibilities

• Take initiative and work independently as well as in a team.
• Work closely with domain experts to implement and validate new concepts and algorithms.
• Generate intellectual property and technology transfer to business groups and standards bodies.
• Document and communicate design and experiment results clearly and effectively.

Skills

Wireless physics

Real-time systems

Prototype development

GPU/CPU optimization

CUDA (or similar)

Education

Master's degree in electrical engineering

Tools

CUDA

Job description

Team Description
The goal of the Radio Systems USA Department at Nokia Bell Labs is to develop novel, superior, and disruptive technologies for wireless communication and sensing systems. We are devoted to establishing fundamentals as well as to developing game-changing, high-impact technologies and concepts for radio connectivity in AI-native networks over an ever-widening range of frequency bands.

We are seeking a talented and self-motivated research engineer to work with a team of domain experts with a focus on system design, implementation and validation of various new concepts and algorithms in radio systems. You are expected to

• Take initiative, and work independently as well as within a team
• Work closely with domain experts to implement and validate new concepts and algorithms
• Generate intellectual property and technology transfer to business groups and standards bodies
• Document and communicate design and experiment results clearly and effectively

• Master's degree in electrical engineering or related field
• Knowledge of wireless physical-layer preferably including massive MIMO, beamforming or precoding, channel estimation, scheduling, link adaptation, or other techniques that improve spectral efficiency.
• Experience working with real-time systems across latency and resource efficiency using reproducible methods and representative workloads.
• Ability to translate research into robust prototypes and clearly communicate architecture choices, bottlenecks, trade-offs, and customer-relevant conclusions to research, product, and customer-facing teams.
• Demonstrated GPU/CPU performance engineering or ability to learn fast, including CUDA or equivalent accelerator programming, kernel optimization, memory-management optimization, profiling, and latency analysis. CPU programming including multithreading, vectorization, cache-aware implementation, and use of optimized numerical libraries, to establish fair and credible baselines.

Preferred: familiarity with AI-RAN, 5G-Advanced or 6G RAN architectures, GPU-accelerated Layer 1/Layer 2 processing, machine-learning inference optimization, and relevant development frameworks or SDKs.