POSITION SUMMARY

As a Digital Hardware Designer, you will assist in the design, integration, and verification of the baseband subsystem for BlackBerry handheld devices.

You will be a member of the wireless handheld hardware development team with the following responsibilities:

- Assist in the development of the detailed designs including design specifications, schematics, and layout.
- Development of design verification specifications, perform the verification, and write test reports.
- Troubleshoot failures and help drive them to resolution.
- Assist in the integration of other digital and analog subsystems such as high speed I/O\'s, sensors, memory, etc.
- Work closely with other key hardware teams including displays, camera, and RF.
- Interface with other teams to ensure the handheld is manufactured correctly including support to our high volume manufacturing sites.

Knowledge of low power hardware design including aspects of digital-related baseband components. The person will be required to be a team player, well organized, logical, have excellent communication skills and determined to succeed, with the ability to work on their own initiative and have the aptitude to expand the knowledge base in all aspects of hardware design.

ESSENTIAL SKILLS AND QUALIFICATIONS

4+ Years of Relevant Experience; Bachelor\'s degree in Computer or Electrical Engineering, Proficient in the use of modern laboratory equipment: oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, temperature chambers, power supplies, etc., and the automated control and monitoring of this equipment
Excellent hardware, system and software debugging skills
Understanding of overall system operation, including the interaction of hardware and software, and the requirements that these create
Experience creating component specifications and design schematics
Schematic creation using CAD tools
Experience writing design documentation, test specifications and test reports.
Demonstrated ability to take initiative, responsibility and leadership in a team environment
Strong interpersonal and communication skills
Strong multitasking skills with a team player orientation
Ability to quickly adapt to new situations and constraints
ADDITIONAL ASSETS
Experience with microprocessors , embedded memories, and highspeed digital interfaces such as MIPI and USB.
Working knowledge of ICX or other high speed PCB design simulation tools.
Experience within the wireless or telecommunications sector
Experience with the design and manufacture of handheld products





If you\'re driven to take wireless technologies to the next level, it\'s time you join the team at RIM. We offer a challenging environment that fosters creativity and rewards excellence. Employees also have use of our award winning BlackBerry!

© 2010 Research In Motion Limited. All Rights Reserved. The BlackBerry and RIM families of related marks, images and symbols are the exclusive properties of Research In Motion Limited. RIM, BlackBerry, \"Always On, Always Connected\" and the \"envelope in motion\" symbol are registered with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and may be pending or registered in other countries.

In this position, you will be part of the Research and Development team for design, testing and/or characterization, and development of antenna solutions for CDMA/GSM/UMTS/Bluetooth/WiFi/ and GPS. This successful candidate will work with Hardware, Radio Frequency (RF), and Mechanical Engineering teams to validate antenna solutions for cellular products.

RESPONSIBILITIES
Will work in a team environment at all phases from concept design to final products
Will develop engineering prototypes for RIM\'s new products and work with Mechanical Designer, Printed Circuit Board (PCB) Designer, Audio and Industrial Designer to optimize the antenna performance
Good understanding of electromagnetic and antenna fundamentals
ESSENTIAL SKILLS AND QUALIFICATIONS
BSEE minimum and MSEE preferred
5+ years experience with the design, prototype and test of mobile handset antennas
TRP/TIS/SAR optimization across a variety of devices
Knowledge of multiple-input, multiple-output operation in handsets
Experience with design and simulation tools: HFSS, Ansoft Designer, MATLAB
Strong interpersonal and communication skills
Understanding of RF compliance requirements
Hands on skills for RF matching and antenna prototype development
If you\'re driven to take wireless technologies to the next level, it\'s time you join the team at RIM. We offer a challenging environment that fosters creativity and rewards excellence. Employees also have use of our award winning BlackBerry!

© 2010 Research In Motion Limited. All Rights Reserved. The BlackBerry and RIM families of related marks, images and symbols are the exclusive properties of Research In Motion Limited. RIM, BlackBerry, \"Always On, Always Connected\" and the \"envelope in motion\" symbol are registered with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and may be pending or registered in other countries.

The successful candidate will be part of a high-performance team focused on the development of leading-edge radio protocol stack software for standardized wireless technologies, particularly EDGE/E-EDGE, UMTS/HSxPA and LTE. The position will involve evaluating, defining and designing various layers of wireless protocol stack particularly L1, L2 RLC/MAC, PDCP and RRC. In addition, investigating and resolving integration and performance related issues for the CPU, DSP and mixed signal hardware using test equipment, logging devices and ICEs.

ESSENTIAL SKILLS AND QUALIFICATIONS
• Bachelor, Masters or PhD in relevant subject
• Good communications skills and a team player
• Minimum 3 years experience in Protocol Stack and/or DSP design and development of current wireless technologies, EDGE/E-EDGE, HSDPA/HSUPA and LTE
• Strong embedded C programming skills essential
• Exposure to Assembly, C++ programming, scripting languages desirable
• Experience producing memory management designs including overlays, buffering, caching, DMA access, bus latency and internal memory assignment, threads, thread priorities, ISRs
• Control and data plane designs
• Modular, layered software design either on DSP or MCU
• Real-time OS firmware development environment and debugging on multi-processor hardware architectures
• Experience in embedded development, simulation and test tools and languages
• Experience using test equipment, logging equipment and practical experience testing embedded code
• Experience with slow clocking (timing adjustment after exiting sleep modes) desirable
• Experience with programming microstate machines beneficial
If you\'re driven to take wireless technologies to the next level, it\'s time you join the team at RIM. We offer a challenging environment that fosters creativity and rewards excellence. Employees also have use of our award winning BlackBerry!

© 2010 Research In Motion Limited. All Rights Reserved. The BlackBerry and RIM families of related marks, images and symbols are the exclusive properties of Research In Motion Limited. RIM, BlackBerry, \"Always On, Always Connected\" and the \"envelope in motion\" symbol are registered with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and may be pending or registered in other countries.

Research In Motion is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

The candidate will be part of a team focused on the integration and development of leading-edge radio protocol stack software. You will be responsible for the integration, investigation, debug and development of GSM / GPRS / EGPRS / UMTS multi-RAT platform. The team\'s goal is to produce a robust high quality product and support it through certification, carrier acceptance and onto customer deployment.

ESSENTIAL SKILLS AND QUALIFICATIONS
• Minimum 5 years of experience in real time embedded software development.
• Strong C programming and debugging skills.
• Good understanding of the use of, and interfacing to hardware accelerators.
• Good understanding of multi-tasking and interrupt driven systems.
• Experience debugging low level systems using oscilloscope, trace tools and logic analyzers.
• Committed to work on all aspects of product development as a strong team member.
• The ideal candidate will have practical experience of supporting a real time embedded software product from development through to customer acceptance and be able to show significant contribution to the program in the areas of performance, quality and robustness required from a market leading product.
• University degree in an Engineering or Computer Science discipline.
ADDITIONAL ASSETS
• Prior experience in the design and development of current wireless technologies, particularly GSM / GPRS / EDGE and WCDMA / HSPA
• Excellent knowledge with wireless systems, standards specifications and related industry issues.
• Solid understanding of GSM / UMTS system architecture and the function and purpose of the different protocol layers, device driver interfaces and scheduling.
• Good understanding of Radio Frequency (RF) drivers / interfaces.
If you\'re driven to take wireless technologies to the next level, it\'s time you join the team at RIM. We offer a challenging environment that fosters creativity and rewards excellence. Employees also have use of our award winning BlackBerry!

ESSENTIAL SKILLS AND QUALIFICATIONS
• Bachelor\'s or Master\'s degree in Engineering or Computer Science with courses in real-time/embedded systems, data structures, computer architecture or communication systems
• A Graduate Degree with an emphasis on Digital Signal Processing and wireless communications would be an asset
• A minimum of 3 years of experience in developing L1 software for standardized wireless communication systems (e.g. GSM/GPRS/EDGE, WCDMA, WiFi) and/or next generation technologies (LTE).
• Experience in protocol stack integration or field testing of L1 would also be an asset
• Practical experience with real-time OS firmware development, inter-processor communication strategies, low-level drivers and hardware interfacing as well as debugging on multi-processor hardware architectures
• Lab experience using embedded debuggers, test equipment (base station simulators), logging equipment or Software diagnostic tools

RESPONSIBILITIES

The successful candidate\'s responsibilities will include:
• Lead and participate in reporting and scorecard/dashboard development from conceptualization through to execution and deployment.
• Facilitate the transition from project mode to post go-live support mode.
• Provide post go-live support for delivered reporting and analytical projects.
• Cross-train and facilitate the empowerment of business users towards best practice self-service reporting models.
• Communicate priorities; timelines and deliverables to team members and business stakeholders.
• Drive development activities and timelines for project completion.
• Collaborate with managers within the organization for end-to-end solution planning
• Liaise with internal customer groups and business leaders.

ESSENTIAL SKILLS AND QUALIFICATIONS

• A Bachelor\'s and/or Master\'s degree in Finance, Computer Science or related degree.
• 5+ years of performance optimization application (POA) experience utilizing technology-enablers such as SAP BOBJ, SAP BPC, SAP BW, SAP Netweaver BI, SAP ECC or R/3, Outlooksoft, Cognos, Hyperion.
• Expert level experience working with the Business Objects tool set - Crystal Reports, Web Intelligence, and Xcelsius
• Experience with Business Objects universe design and overall performance guidelines in working in the Business Objects environment
• Experience with SQL working with large data sources
• Expertise in business intelligence and data warehousing
• Leadership and management skills
• Entrepreneur spirit with strong planning and project execution skills
• Demonstrated ability to proactively build and manage relationships
• Ability to coach and lead technical teams in a collaborative approach
• Strong communicator (Oral, Verbal, and Written) with ability to persuade individuals and groups
• Excellent technical skills with strong analytical and diagnostics background
• Strong organization and time management skills
• Ability to use metrics in an operation environment to suggest and implement continuous improvement
• Ability to thrive in a challenging and high pressure environment

ADDITIONAL ASSETS

• Professional accounting designation.
• Knowledge and experience with integration between SAP POA solution sets.
• Knowledge and experience with financial budgeting, planning and forecasting processes (Capex, Opex).
• Knowledge and experience with consolidations.
• Knowledge and experience with product costing.
• Knowledge and experience with post go-live support processes.
• Project management experience and/or certification.

If you\'re driven to take wireless technologies to the next level, it\'s time you join the team at RIM. We offer a challenging environment that fosters creativity and rewards excellence. Employees also have use of our award winning BlackBerry!

© 2010 Research In Motion Limited. All Rights Reserved. The BlackBerry and RIM families of related marks, images and symbols are the exclusive properties of Research In Motion Limited. RIM, BlackBerry, \"Always On, Always Connected\" and the \"envelope in motion\" symbol are registered with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and may be pending or registered in other countries.

Research In Motion is an Equal Opportunity Employer.