Wireless Networking Researcher
Basking Ridge, NJ

Job Description

Overview:

Every day at Perspecta, we enable hundreds of thousands of people to take on our nation's most important work. We're a company founded on a diverse set of capabilities and skills, bound together by a single promise: we never stop solving our nation's most complex challenges. Our team of engineers, analysts, developers, investigators, integrators and architects work tirelessly to create innovative solutions. We continually push ourselves-to respond, to adapt, to go further. To look ahead to the changing landscape and develop new and innovative ways to serve our customers.

Perspecta works with U.S. government customers in defense, intelligence, civilian, health care, and state and local markets. Our high-caliber employees are rewarded in many ways-not only through competitive salaries and benefits packages, but the opportunity to create a meaningful impact in jobs and on projects that matter.

Perspecta's talented and robust workforce-14,000 strong-stands ready to welcome you to the team. Let's make an impact together.

Perspecta is an AA/EEO Employer - Minorities/Women/Veterans/Disabled and other protected categories

Responsibilities:

The work will involve research and design of novel wireless networking mechanisms. Listed below are some key skills required for this project (as well as potential future ones in our pipeline). They include understanding and hands-on experience with:

(a) Layer 2 (L2) protocols such as: at least one of 802.11, 3G/LTE, IoT/Low Power Personal Area Networks

(b) Layer 3 (L3) protocols such as IPv4 (IPv6 a plus), routing protocols including link-state (OSPF, OLSR),

(c) Layer 4 (L4) protocols: TCP/UDP (with modern variants of TCP a plus),

(d) Operating systems: Linux, Android (Windows will be a plus),

(e) Software development experience with C, C++,Python (Java a plus), and familiarity with source control tools such as "git",

(f) Discrete event network simulation experience with at least one of: ns-2, ns-3, QualNet, OPNET

(g) Analytic tools with at least one of: R, Matlab, Python-based tools

The candidate will be responsible for participating in research projects and working with a team of research scientists to design, implement and test solutions for mixed wireless and wired networks. The candidate will also participate in preparing presentations and demonstrations for technical information exchanges with the end customer. With time, the candidate will take on leadership roles and provide assistance with writing research proposals in various areas of wireless and wired networking.

Qualifications:

Requires 5 to 8 years with BS or 3 to 5 years with MS/MA or 0 to 2 years with PhD.