Company Overview

With nearly 80,000 employees globally, Kyocera is a leading manufacturer of high-tech Ceramics which are used in a variety of industries including aerospace, automotive, medical applications, and semiconductor processing. You will find our innovative materials in everything from smartphones to space shuttles!

Look at these PERKS!

• Competitive pay, benefits, and hours
• 120 hours of vacation accrued per year to start (that's 3 weeks/year for regular 8-hour shifts!)
• 10 Paid Holidays per year
• 401(k)
• 401(k) company match
• Pension
• Medical insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Life insurance
• Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
• Employee Assistance Program
• Flexible schedules
• Tuition reimbursement

We have a long-tenured staff (many with over 30 years of service!), a strong company mission, and an excellent benefits package that includes Medical, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, Paid time off to Volunteer, paid Leave options, Tuition Reimbursement, and employer-paid Pension and a 401(k) with both Roth and a healthy company match. Many of our larger locations also feature onsite gyms, walking tracks, exercise rooms, and even employee gardens.

We strive to have a diverse workforce made up of people from all backgrounds, including minorities, women, and veterans, who bring their experience to support the innovation and quality that Kyocera is known for.

Kyocera International, Inc. also has a robust corporate culture and philosophy based on the experiences and writings of our founder, Dr. Kazuo Inamori, which you can learn more about here: . Our company motto is "Do the right thing as a human being," and we try to use that in our decision-making constantly.

Senior Cellular Software Engineer

Pay Range - $119,000.00 - $183,448.00 (Actual base pay based on factors such as relevant experience, education, market, qualifications, and skills)

Job Summary:

Senior Cellular Software Engineer will be responsible for developing the 5G base station hardware and software platform based on Intel Xeon and FlexRan. This is part of the KWIC 5G Base Station Development. Development of Kyocera advanced base station for markets in Japan and other countries.

Job Duties:

• Setup Intel 5G Base Station CU/DU Xeon Server, Install OS, Network Interface based on various requirements.
• Installs, setup FlexRAN and interfaces to Hardware Accelerator 9FEC, NIC),
• Works with other engineers to develop FlexRAN test infrastructure.
• Works with team members to develop and execute TestMAC, Test Application, Unit Test, and Radio Mode Test for RU and DU.
• Works with other engineers to develop and debug of the new features from the baseline layer 1 software/server platform for DU
• Works with other engineers to exercise various Layer 1 tests TestMAC, Test Application, Unit Test, and Radio Mode Test OTA with combined DU-RU and UE emulator.
• Works with system engineer for fine-tuning task manager for performance optimization for various test load conditions.
• Works with offshore team to debug and analyze new feature logs.
• Works closely with global protocol team to resolve customer issues found in lab/field/IOT/carrier test.

Requirements:

• Master's degree with 10+ years or PhD with 5 years in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, communication area or related field preferred.
• 6+ years of experience in Software/Firmware industrial
• Carrier-grade high capacity/performance requirements.
• In-depth understanding of 3GPP 5G NR and ORAN standards
• Programming: C/C++ and Python, Shell script, XML, YAML
• In-depth understanding of L1 Signal Processing (FFT, NCO, Filter, Encoder/Decoder. FlexRAN SDK, FlexRAN DPDK)
• In-depth understanding of FlexRAN Task manager
• In-depth understanding of the Network and Edge Cloud Architecture and the deployment of the cloud-native Kubernetes clusters
• Experience with Server setup
• Experience with OS: Ubuntu, Redhead, Rocky Linux
• Experience Network connectivity, Ansible Host, Git Utilities
• Experience RT Kernel performance enhancement for Intel Xeon Saphire Rapids or Cascade Lake Wind River Titanium Cloud
• In-depth understanding of virtualization and cloudification and related hardware/software architecture
• Good understanding with HW abstraction Layer / DSP.
• Good understanding of Xeon platform and RT kernel and accelerator
• Experience with (R&S/Viavi) test equipment and software for Layer 1 test.
• Working experience with Petalinux on Xilinx Zync platform a plus
• Good understanding of protocol stack from Layer 1 (Physical Layer) a plus
• Experience Bios Profiles is a plus.