Junior IoT Engineer

Our Mobile Wireless Internet (MWI) research area is looking for a Junior IoT Engineer willing to get involved in an exciting IoT project.

The successful candidate will work on a project focused on improving the location of vehicles so that they can know precisely where they are located on the road.

This information can be applied to use cases such as autonomous vehicle guidance or to improve circulation in emergencies / incidents (for example, for a better location of vehicles parked on the road).

Current GPS-based location solutions have a precision error that can be very large, especially in areas with poor satellite visibility. On the other hand, the use of LIDAR or image recognition mechanisms may present problems when the weather is not good. The use of technologies based on UltraWideBand would be an alternative to consider for the improvement of the location of vehicles.

The work to be performed will consist of the following parts:

• Design a solution that combines the use of UWB, GPS, inertial systems and other roadside reference signals to achieve an accuracy better than 20 centimeters.
• Implementation and validation of the different localization mechanisms.
• Implementation of a solution that combines different localization mechanisms.
• Validation in a realistic scenario.
• Solution redesign to optimize deployment / deployment cost.

Who we are:

i2CAT Foundation is a non-profit research and innovation centre that promotes mission oriented R&D activities on advanced Internet architectures, applications and services. The centre stands for a new open innovation framework, fostering the collaboration between companies, public administration, the academic environment and end-users.

i2CAT’s activities span the areas of Research, playing a key role in the EU Framework Program for Research and Innovation; Strategic Projects, leading local initiatives that strengthen the digital policies of public administration, and Technology Transfer, fostering R&D collaboration with companies to develop innovative market-oriented solutions.

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What do we offer:

• You will be part of a multicultural team. We have a fun loving and friendly international work environment.
• Be in contact and work with cutting-edge technology
• Work in challenging R&D projects
• Fix + variable salary
• Option of flexible retribution (restaurant card, transport card, medical insurance, kindergarten)
• Flexible working schedule - We know you have a life outside of work and we will work with you to make sure it's kept that way
• Fridays afternoon off
• Intensive work schedule in July & August
• One home-office day per week
• Open space office in Barcelona.
• Free fruit every week
• Discounted Gym-access
• 25 vacation days per year
• Casual dress code
• Let us know which trainings you need
• You will have the opportunity to attend tech conferences and events.

The i2CAT Foundation seeks to increase the number of women in those areas where they are underrepresented and, therefore explicitly, encourages women to apply.

The i2CAT Foundation seeks to increase the number of persons with disabilities among its workforce, and therefore explicitly encourages this collective to apply.

This project will be funded by the project FemIoT with reference code 001-P-001662, cofunded by the Fondo Europeo de Desarrollo Regional (FEDER).