Senior 5G Researcher

Our Mobile Wireless Internet (MWI) research area is looking for a Senior 5G Researcher willing to get involved in a exciting Research and Innovation projects.

The researcher will be involved in the following project:

Sateliot: i2CAT Foundation and Sateliot joined forces in a pioneering project that adapts network core (respecting the 3GPP interfaces) to communicate all the elements involved in the process: nanosatellites, base stations, IoT devices, and operators.

Thanks to this novel software, the Sateliot nanosatellites will work as telecom towers from space, offering 5G IoT coverage to mobile operators. This will be directed via a roaming service that allows for global and massive IoT internet service, without discontinuity and amplifying the coverage of terrestrial networks.

As part of his regular work the researcher is expected to:

• Represent i2CAT in the aforementioned project meetings
• Define algorithms and protocols applied to wireless technologies
• Generate patent ideas
• Generate results and lead scientific publications
• Make technical presentations
• Work with network prototypes. Requires expertise on Linux networking stack and experience working with open source projects

The researcher will be part of the Mobile and Wireless Internet (MWI) group at i2CAT. More information can be found here: https://www.i2cat.net/research-topics/mobile-wireless-internet/

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.