Wireless Engineer Career Research and Resources

Hughes Aircraft Co

Engineering & Architecture - Wireless Engineer - Los Angeles, CA

Designed satellite downlink off of a sepcification, designed a DSP-based telemetry system, worked on research that eventually led to DirecTV

Avg. Salary: $165,000   ·    Company Rank: 3.0 out of 5

Booz Allen & Hamilton

Engineering & Architecture - Wireless Engineer - Crystal City, VA

Liason between The Space and Naval Warfare (SPAWAR) organization and contractors supporting them.

Avg. Salary: $165,000   ·    Company Rank: 3.0 out of 5

Commquest Technologies

Engineering & Architecture - Wireless Engineer - Encinitas, CA

Designed and led technical developments for modem technology and government contract which we won

Avg. Salary: $165,000   ·    Company Rank: Not Available

Prominent Communications

Engineering & Architecture - Wireless Engineer - San Diego , CA

Key designed and team leader for development of several wireless ASICS tht included analog RF and baseband functions for wireless gaming. Also Developed 802.11a+ chip that could operate at twice the standard rate in a proprietary mode as well as the standards mode.

Avg. Salary: $165,000   ·    Company Rank: Not Available

Ensemble Communications

Engineering & Architecture - Wireless Engineer - San Diego, CA

In charge of developing revolutionary LMDS system using patented Adaptive Time-Division-Duplexing Technology (ATDD) for the base station side for wireless local loop (internet to the home and apartment bldgs.)

Avg. Salary: $165,000   ·    Company Rank: Not Available

L-3 Corporation

Engineering & Architecture - Wireless Engineer - San Diego, CA

Oversaw all communications developments based on the MPM modem platform. First to bring software defined radio concepts to company and successfully designed waveform from scratch for the army and won contract

Avg. Salary: $165,000   ·    Company Rank: Not Available

Government Contractor for Navy

Engineering & Architecture - Wireless Engineer - San Diego, CA

Responsible for new technology development involving several satellite systems, telemetry systems and performed analysis for several major components of these systems to recommend specifications for subsystems.

Avg. Salary: $165,000   ·    Company Rank: 2.0 out of 5

Harris Corporation--RF Communication

Engineering & Architecture - Wireless Engineer - Lynchburg, VA

* Worked as an embedded DSP developer for a FDMA-based Land Mobile Radio (LMR), diagnosed and eliminated LMR software problems that emerge during product testing/in the field, added improved functionality of a current product offering; * Attended the review meetings for the definition of the MAC layer protocol for Project 25 phase 2 TDMA air interface

Avg. Salary: $80,000   ·    Company Rank: 5.0 out of 5

Tyco Electronics (M/A-COM)

Engineering & Architecture - Wireless Engineer - Lynchburg, VA

* Developed signal processing software and/or firmware functions (including new processing algorithms, as appropriate) that can serve as “company-standard” processing modules for Tyco Electronics’ next generation portable, mobile, and base station products; * Investigated new signal processing technologies (such as low power FPGAs) and signal processing algorithms that improve size, weight, power, and cost of portable rad...

Avg. Salary: $80,000   ·    Company Rank: 5.0 out of 5

Oregon State University

Engineering & Architecture - Wireless Engineer - Corvallis, OR

VLSI Design for Soft-decision Decoding of Reed-Solomon Codes: Investigated the factorization architecture and optimized an interpolation architecture for a (255,239) RS code.

Avg. Salary: $80,000   ·    Company Rank: 5.0 out of 5