Staff Engineer, Wireless Research

Sony • San Jose, CA

88d • $189,000 - $200,000

About The Position

Sony Corporation of America, located in New York, NY, is the U.S. headquarters of Sony Group Corporation, based in Tokyo, Japan. Sony's principal U.S. businesses include Sony Electronics Inc., Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC, Sony Music Entertainment, Sony Music Publishing and Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc. With some 900 million Sony devices in hands and homes worldwide today, a vast array of Sony movies, television shows and music, and the PlayStation Network, Sony creates and delivers more entertainment experiences to more people than anyone else on earth. To learn more: www.sony.com/en. Staff Engineer, Wireless Research Nearly 70 years ago, Masaru Ibuka founded our great company with just one, primary motive: "to create a stable work environment where engineers who have a deep and profound appreciation for technology can realize their societal mission and work to their heart's content.” Today, we not only celebrate the enduring history of our world-changing products and the prodigious minds behind them but seek far and wide to rally the most talented and passionate engineers in the world to our cause. Together, we work as "One Sony", built and driven by engineering; intensely focused on delivering the experiences that put that beaming smile on our customers’ faces, time after time. Sony R&D US Laboratory, CA in Sony Corporate of America is seeking to welcome the best and the brightest into our world-class R&D team, and if you’re up to the challenge, we’d love to see what you’ve got. We’re inventing right here the technology and products that go on to touch customer’s lives all over the world. Sony has a vision to prepare wireless communication technologies to provide immersive entertainment content for the customers in the world.

Requirements

• Ph.D. degree with 4 years of experience, or Master’s degree with 7 years of experience, in electrical/communication engineering or in Computer Science.
• Excellent wireless communication background including all system or link level aspects.
• Experience in wireless LAN systems, cellular systems, sensor network technologies, distributed networking technologies, or wireless PAN systems with excellent research record is required.
• A good knowledge of wireless LAN protocol is required.
• Experience on wireless LAN (IEEE802.11) MAC/PHY layers protocol design and/or analysis is preferred.
• Experience in WLAN standard (802.11ac/ax/be/bn, etc.) development or 3GPP is preferred.
• Experience in link level or system level simulation (e.g, ns-3) is preferred.
• Experience in cross-layer system design is preferred.
• Essential programming language knowledge, such as Matlab, C/C++, and Python, is required.
• Excellent oral and written communications skills.
• Ability to propose new features, drive consensus, and capture the results in writing in the form of designs, models, and requirements.
• Must be able to travel domestically and internationally if required.
• Flexibility and adaptability to work and collaborate with researchers in global locations, internally and externally.

Responsibilities

• Initiate proposals to advance state-of-the-art wireless technology, including generating patents.
• Actively engage with standard bodies and OSS community to make technical contributions.
• Identify research directions and new research areas to realize Sony vision.
• Collaborate with our global teams around the world to reach an optimal outcome.
• Honesty, trustworthiness and ethical conduct are material requirements for the responsibilities outlined above.

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical, prescription drug, dental, and vision coverage with coverage for spouses/domestic partners and child dependents, including access to a Health Savings Account (HSA) and Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
• Employee assistance plan and comprehensive behavioral health benefits
• Fertility benefits, including surrogacy, and adoption assistance programs
• Basic and supplemental life insurance for employees as well as supplemental life insurance coverage for their spouses/domestic partners and children
• Voluntary benefits such as group legal, identity theft protection, accident, and hospital indemnity insurance
• Short-term & long-term disability plans
• Paid parental and caregiver leave
• 401(k) Plan with pre-tax, Roth, and after-tax options and company match with immediate vesting
• Education assistance and student loan programs
• Flexible Work Arrangements, including remote and hybrid work schedules
• Time off to include vacation, paid holidays, sick leave, Summer Fridays (early release), and a winter break between Christmas and New Year’s Day (based on business needs)
• Referral bonuses (subject to eligibility)
• Matching gift program
• A wide variety of employee business resource groups (EBRGs)
• Special discounts on Sony products, offered exclusively to Sony employees
• Employee stock purchase plan (Sony covers commissions and fees for your Sony stock purchases made through after-tax payroll deductions)
• Annual incentive bonus

What This Job Offers

• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Ph.D. or professional degree
• Number of Employees: 101-250 employees