Role Mission:
We are looking for aproductminded engineerwho can identify commercially viable product opportunities at the convergence of 5G/6G networks, artificial intelligence, and cybersecurity. You will not be bound to a single roadmap instead, you will actively scan technology trends, operator pain points, and enterprise customer needs, then translate them intotangible product concepts from ideation to validated prototype.
You will bridge deep technical knowledge (RAN, core, AI/ML pipelines, security architectures). The output of your work is not just papers it isproduct ideas and roadmap that can be funded, built, and sold.
Accountabilities:
- Maintain a continuous pipeline of validated product ideas (minimum six per year) derived from 5G, AI, and security trends.
- Conduct market validation through at least 20 vendor engagements and industry partner engagements annually.
- Create roadmap for advanced technologies and platforms.
- Deliver working MVPs with measurable KPIs by working with software developers, vendors teams and university researchers.
- Produce two fullypackaged product memos and Translate research into investable concepts.
- present monthly to leadership, and provide handover packages for funded ideas.
- Engage with industry partners such as regulators, universities and vendors for developing new products ideas.
- Develop new frameworks for AI security, agentic AI, Quantum security and its implications for 5G/6G network.
Responsibilities:
- Generate & validate product ideas: Scan 5G/6G, AI, and security trends to identify unsolved problems develop product hypotheses backed by customer discovery (minimum 20 interviews or engagements/year).
- Build MVPs & assess feasibility: Create lightweight prototypes on testbeds or cloud sandboxes, measuring KPIs (latency, detection rates, energy efficiency) that prove customer value for internal or external customers.
- Develop business cases & cost benefit analysis: Produce product memos, cost structure, cost benefit analyses, and competitive positioning for internal investment review.
- Protect IP & manage pipeline: Identify patentable inventions, file at least one disclosure annually, and maintain a rolling pipeline of six validated ideas per year.
- Bridge research & commercial teams : Translate academic outputs into product requirements, present monthly to leadership, and deliver handover packages for funded ideas.
- Support new initiatives by:
- Rapidly prototyping network architectures for proofofconcepts (e.g., edge computing, 5Grelated workloads, AI/ML data pipelines).
- Advising product teams on cloud networking constraints, costs, and best practices.
- Building reusable, batteriesincluded network modules that reduce timetonetwork for innovation projects.
- Document network architectures, runbooks, and disaster recovery procedures.
- Participate in oncall rotation for critical cloud network incidents.
