mobile telecoms & telecommunications jobs markets are generally in decline but we are still experiencing an increase in the number of mobile telecoms companies instructing us with current jobs for real time embedded software and test engineers.

mobile telecoms jobs UK

NEW requirements for 2004
Locations: Greater London, Berkshire, South East
Remuneration: £20K to £45K+ + Benefits (a higher salary may be on offer to candidates with a current mobile telecoms handset/base station design background gained with one of the main handset manufacturers, benefits can include a car for Principal Engineer positions).

Start Date: ASAP and throughout 2004

Contract/Perm: permanent only please

Current Jobs: Click on link for full details

• Engineer or Senior Engineer UMTS
• Engineer UMTS Layer 1
• Senior Engineer UMTS Layer 1
• Senior Engineer U-RRC
• Engineer UMTS Integration
• Senior Engineer U-RRC
• Engineer/Senior Engineer GSM/GPRS
• Engineer NAS User Plane
• Engineer GSM/GPRS LPS
• Senior Engineer Conformance Test
• Senior Engineers x2 Systems
• Engineers x2 Systems
• Principal Engineer Software Applications
• Senior Engineer Applications
• Senior Researchers
• Senior Engineer Process Control

Job Description: These positions are open to all British/EU citizens or holders of a UK (Transferable eg. not company specific) work permit, the client is not currently able to sponsor candidates for work permits.

Some Mobile Telecoms handset manufacturers are still actively seeking real time software engineers with a mobile telecoms development background. If you have C/embedded development experience and any of the following additional technical skills below gained within a UK based Mobile Telecoms environment then we would like to hear from you.

Benefits - pension, relocation expenses, life assurance, short working week, health, project & personal bonuses & awards, staff purchase, flex-working, up to 30 days holidays, car for principal positions.

Minimum requirements for all positions are a 2.1 degree and above in a science subject with 3 A levels including Mathematics with ideally 4 years real time C experience with at least 1 year gained in a mobile telecoms environment. Junior position requires 1 years experience with exceptional academic achievement.

Skills Summary: Please note the core skills are C/Embedded with a minimum 4 years commercial experience for all these positions except junior which is 1 year+.

EMBEDDED, 'C', ANSI C, C++, JAVA, RTOS, PSOS, VxWorks, KERNELS, COMPILERS, MULTITHREADING, MOBILE COMMS, TCP/IP, X25, WAP, BLUETOOTH, MEXE, EPOC, TELECOMS, GPRS, GSM/GPRS, SMS/GSMS, USSD, ISO 7-LAYER, PROTOCOLS, 2G & 3G WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATIONS, RTOS, NUCLEUS, VRTX, LAPB, Q.921, Q931, COTS, DEVICE DRIVERS, IRS, JAVA MIDP DEVICE SOFTWARE, DSP, GSM, CDMA, HARDWARE DESIGN, ATE, HPVEE, LABWINDOWS, VISUAL BASIC, RF TESTING, RF CAD, AGILENT ADS, BASEBAND, UMTS, PROTOCOL STACKS, RTOS, TTCN, CLEARCASE, LAYERS 2 & 3, etc

PDA and wireless applications jobs

Some of these positions are on HOLD but contact us for latest update
Job Ref: ASH169-DEV01& 02

(The client may be interested in more senior candidates please call us for details.

Our client is a leading provider of software solutions and is a market leader for PDA's applications. Our client is now expanding into the mobile telephone market. Furthermore, Our client will extend its offerings beyond it's current products to provide a solution for the secure provisioning of rich media services such as audio, animation, video and gaming on such resource constrained mobile devices.

Job Title: Senior Software Engineer
Reports to: Project Development Manager
Location: Home Counties/Greater London
Salary: £40K - £50K

Purpose of role:

To take a leading role in the design, implementation and release of Our client's Secure Client Provisioning product.

Key responsibilities/activities:

Responsible (as part of a small team) for the development of Our client's Secure Client Provisioning Software for mobile phones. The individual will help design and develop key functionality to provide the mechanisms behind the provisioning of rich media services and platform revisions on a variety of mobile devices. They will also ensure that such implementations have been developed with portability and test automation in mind. The person will report to the Project Manager leading the project.

Formal education & training:

• Degree in a computing or engineering discipline.

Mandatory Experience:

A minimum of 3 years system software (embedded) development experience within the mobile phone handset software stack, ideally working for a mobile phone handset manufacturers or a phone software stack supplier.

Proven C / assembly language (ARM based) programming experience in an embedded environment with a working knowledge of NT or UNIX development.

An understanding of handset software stack architectures and internal workings on mobile operating systems (Nucleus, Microsoft Stinger, EPOC, etc.)

Knowledge of mobile communications protocol standards, TDMA, CDMA, SMS, HTTP, TCP/IP, and wireless systems (GSM, GPRS, EDGE, etc.)

Optional Experience:

Understanding of the mobile phone market / service providers / content providers / current and future handset devices.

Awareness of the Application Management Systems (AMS).

Other key skills/miscellaneous:

• Ability to communicate concepts and ideas clearly
• Team Player
• Open to travel