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Description

SED Systems specializes in developing complex hardware and software systems for cable, telecommunications, satellite communications, and defense applications. Employees enjoy a comprehensive benefits package, competitive salary, a company paid pension plan, an employee stock purchase plan, and free access to a fitness facility.

This position will be of interest to candidates with a bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or Engineering Physics and a minimum of 3 to 5 years of experience.  A postgraduate degree is considered an asset.  Applicants must have good oral and written communications skills and be willing to travel.

Experience with satellite or cellular network technology is essential for this position.
Knowledge in the following areas is an asset:
   Satellite and terrestrial network architectures
   Antennas and coverage analysis
   Satellite communications payload concepts
   Modulation and coding
   Link analysis including propagation modeling
   Protocols at physical, MAC, network and transport levels
   Resource management concepts and methods including admission control, congestion detection and mitigation, load estimation and prediction
   Interference analysis and mitigation
   Virtualization of network functions

Experience with analytical techniques broadly applicable to resource management problems is critical for this position. Knowledge in the following areas is relevant:
   Statistical methods for traffic and quality of service analysis
   Multi-attribute optimization with irregular constraints
   Planning and decision support methodology
   Scheduling methods for mapping traffic to link capacity
   Deep learning methods for reducing the dimensionality of an optimization problem
   Analysis tools such as Matlab
   Scripting tools such as Python
   Microsoft Office, particularly Word, Excel, and Visio
   Programming languages such as C, C++, or Java

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