Software Architect- Testbed platform development

Job Title: Software Architect- Testbed platform development

Location: 445 Hoes Ln, Piscataway, NJ 08854 (Onsite- 5 days a week)

Hire Type: Fulltime and Long-term contract

Product: IEEE 5G/6G Innovation Testbed

SOW: SCOPE OF WORK

Software Architect role for the Testbed platform development :

Act as a resident technical subject matter expert for the Testbed platform .

Analyze the platform's evolutionary needs and understand the customer use cases, in active collaboration with the IEEE management team .

Work with staff and volunteer steering committees and advisory committees to develop the long-term technical roadmap for the product.

Conduct training or demonstrations with new and potential customers - either 1-on-1, or 1-to many at industry events or online.

Promote the platform at industry events as needed/requested.

Participate in sales calls as needed to provide technical expertise.

Create and manage user accounts of the Testbed platform; onboard, support and train new users.

Break down business problems into value-added deliverable increments.

Approve user stories, managing and prioritizing the technical teams' backlog while maintaining

the conceptual and technical integrity of the product/feature requirements.

Participate in agile ceremonies (sprint reviews and retrospectives) to plan incremental releases and defining release objectives.

Provide support for test automation and story acceptance criteria.

Accept/Reject user stories in the release baseline.

Oversee the process of software development, deployment of new elements and continuous integration of the Testbed platform.

Summary/JD:

Client & Customer Engagement: Participate in client and customer meetings, conduct technical onboarding sessions, and resolve technical issues.

Requirements & Roadmap Management: Gather and analyze requirements, create roadmaps for future development, and manage sprints, backlogs, and acceptance criteria for the client design team.

Testbed Platform Development & Integration: Identify tools for testbed integration , monitor open-source updates to upgrade the platform as needed, monitor 3GPP releases for new features and functionalities, create testbeds in AWS for trials and subscribers.

Note: Need to bring AI and Physical layer research (Massive MIMO, Beam forming, Ray tracing, channel optimizations etc. ) capabilities to the Testbed as we need to align for 6G research and development

Optimization & Industry Engagement: Provide continuous improvements to the testbed platform, implement cost-optimization mechanisms in AWS, and participate in IEEE events .

Skills:

1. Good understanding & work experience of the

1. cellular 5G RAN/Core network components & architecture for 5G - O-RAN experience is preferred

2. System integration & testing - Open-source tools like OAI RAN, OCUDU, Open5GS

3. Linux & Bash scripting, Python

4. AWS, Kubernetes & Docker

5. REST APIs & GIT