US- 5G Talent Landscape

Analysis
August 2018
AGENDA & Methodology
01 US- 5G Talent Landscape Analysis
Analysis Tracks
US- Core 5G Talent Landscape: Talent hotspots,
markets, universities & migration trend (Slide 3-4)
5G Certification and Upskilling initiatives (Slide 5)
Key Universities with mature 5G research (Slide 6)
5G tech Stack, Job Corpus & talent distribution by
core roles (Slide 7-9)
Seattle Deep Dive: Core 5G Skill set distribution &
Peer Employer profiles (Slide 10-18)
Adjacent Trainable Talent Analysis
Adjacent Baseband Role: Definition, Skills,
Workloads and Talent Size (Slide 20-21)
US- Adjacent Baseband role Talent hotspots and
Key employers in each location (Slide-22)
Seattle Deep Dive: Talent size & micro hotspots
(Slide 23)
Talent Mobility to Seattle during last 1 year (Slide
24)
Seattle Deep Dive: Key Employers & Job profiles
(Slide 25-29)
UE Vendors: List of Vendors across US hotspots
and solutions/devices portfolio (Appendix)
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 US- Core 5G talent landscape: ~12,000 5G engineers; ~60% of the talent is concentrated at Six 5G Core 5G
catchment areas

T-Mobile
Century
Link
AT&T
~12,000
SEATTLE Total 5G R&D Talent across the
Syracuse University BOSTON country
Boston University
NEW YORK
Charter Bay Area
North- Communications Yale University
NYU
western
University
Ann Arbor AT&T
Pennsylvania state
Cornell University 33% 2k+ Talent
US Cellular university Verizon
University of CHICAGO Georgetown University
Comcast Corporation Nebraska-Lincoln T - Mobile
Sprint WASHINGTON DC New York Area
Purdue
Verizon University of
Dish Network University
SAN FRANCISCO
DenverColorado Boulder Sprint Corporation
KANSAS CITY North Carolina State University
22% 1.4k+ Talent
LAS VEGAS
AT&T RALEIGH
Dallas Area
LOS ANGELES, & SAN DIEGO OKLAHOMA CITY Vanderbilt University
CHARLOTTE
University of
California, LA
Verizon Cox Communications

University of Texas At
ATLANTA 20% 1.3k+ Talent
Dallas AT&T
PHOENIX AT&T
DALLAS San Diego Area
Verizon
Catchment Areas CenturyLink
University of Texas WACO
University of Florida
17% 1.1k+ Talent
MATURE 5G TALENT HOTSPOTS Texas A&M University NEW ORLEANS
University of Verizon
Potential 5G Markets AT&T Washington DC
HOUSTON South Florida
5G Major Telecom Network Provider
presence ) 9% 600+ Talent
Top universities for 5G talent supply

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Note : DRAUP’s proprietary talent module was used to analyse jobs by job roles and skill type across locations 3
 Overall US Talent Migration trends : Micro level analysis of talent movement patterns indicated emerging Core 5G
hotbeds around the 5G catchment locations

• Las Vegas, Minneapolis, Waco etc.

Bangor
Missoula • Top telecom giants such as T-Mobile,
SEATTLE Augusta
Verizon and AT7T, have announced
Salem Helena Albany BOSTON
Providence
setting up 5G network operations in
NEW YORK Brockton these emerging hotbeds. Thus
Minneapolis
Ontario
Pierre generating job requirement of 5G
Ann Arbor
implementation and orchestration
roles
CHICAGO Bernardsville
Des Moines
Sacramento WASHINGTON DC
Springfield Charleston
Carson City Denver Richmond
SAN FRANCISCO
Colorado Springs KANSAS CITY Frankfort
LAS VEGAS
RALEIGH
• San Francisco, New York and Austin ,
Durham
have set-up collaboration with
Edmond Nashville CHARLOTTE Telecom employers which will attract
LOS ANGELES Scottsdale OKLAHOMA CITY
TEMs & Network giants to set-up R&D
ATLANTA
San Diego
Norman
centres
Riverside
Denton
PHOENIX
Tuscon Abilene DALLAS
Austin
El Paso WACO

San Antonio Orlando

NEW • Las Vegas, Phoenix, Waco, Kansas City,
Tampa
ORLEANS Chicago are potential 5G market
HOUSTON
Del Rio Miami which are telecom companies such T-
Mobile, Sprint, Verizon and AT&T are
bringing 5G talent from nearby
catchment areas
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Note : DRAUP’s proprietary talent module was used to analyse jobs by job roles and skill type across locations 4
 Upskilling & 5G Certifications : TEM and Network providers are up-skilling existing talent pool through online Core 5G
learning platforms and internal training programmes
Technical Certifications and Training Programs in 5G Technology Domain

6+ Industry Partners

PLATFORMS
Key Courses

ONLINE
• 5G Mobile Communications –
Key Courses
LTE & LTE - A
• Towards 5G –Research and
Standardization • 5G, 4G – LTE Cellular Mobile
•
20+ independent •
Internet of Things in 5G
5G Engineering
Communications Wireless

Organisations and Online

ORGANISATION
Platforms offer 5G-related

INDEPENDENT
technical courses and
20+ 5G related courses 10+ 5G related courses
Key Courses Key Courses
programs to cater the • 5G New Radio Training Course and • 5G NR Training
Certification • LTE, LTE-A, LTE-A Pro Migration to 5G
30,000+ •
•
5G System Design
5G Device-to-Device Communicaiton
•
•
3GPP 5G Training
5G security Training
5G – trainable talent in US • IoT in 5G • 5G WiFi Offload Training

• 5G, Edge Compute and Intel Network
Edge Virtualisation SDK course under
Network Builders Program
COMPANY
• 5G New Radio Technical Course
• Cellular – V2X Course
• 5G Massive IoT
• 5G LTE Advanced courses

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Note : DRAUP’s Talent Simulation Module analysed key emerging certifications and corporate earning programmes in 5G 5
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US Top 5G Universities which are undertaking large research programmes with corporates to accelerate 5G
innovation
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS - AUSTIN
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS - AUSTIN
• Extensive research into mmWave
technologies.
• Developing hybrid beamforming
transmission strategies to
adaptively configure arrays at the
transmitter and receiver.
Key Partners:
Core 5G
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA - NEW YORK UNIVERSITY UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA –
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY
BERKELEY SAN DIEGO
Current research areas include: Current research topics in 5G include: • Demonstrated the World's Fastest
• Software Defined Networking • NYUSIM: 5G Channel Model 28 GHz 5G Band, Bidirectional
• Networking functions virtualization Simulator Phased-Array.
• Industrial Internet of Things (IIOT) • mmWave 5G Channel Sounder • Demonstrated World's First 5G,
and Augmented & Virtual Reality • Real-time Massive MIMO Channel 100 to 200 Meter Communication
• Low cost mmWave and RF Emulation Link up to 2 Gbps
technologies. Key Partners:
Key Partners:
Key Partners:

NEW YORK UNIVERSITY WIRELESS

WIRELESS NETWORKING BERKELEY WIRELESS RESEARCH UCSD CENTER FOR WIRELESS
COMMUNICATIONS GROUP CENTER 120+ 5G Related Publications COMMUNICATIONS

150+ Graduates 100+ Students 100+ Students 100+ Students

20+ Faculty Members 20+ Faculty Members 20+ Faculty Members 20+ Faculty Members
Professor Sanjay Shakkottai Professor Ali M.
Ashley H. Priddy Centennial David Lee/Ernst Weber Professor Sujit Dey,
Niknejad, Co-Director Professor Theodore Director Center for
Professor in Engineering, BWRC
WNCG Director Rappaport, Director Wireless Communication
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Note : The above information is based on data provided by the respective universities and Draup Proprietary Database. 6
Note: DRAUP Methodology
 Core 5G Tech Stack: 5G Organizations are prioritizing diverse capabilities across Core 5G
infrastructure, platform and application segments
Service Exposure Mobile Virtual Network Operator OSS/BSS Network
APPLICATION

OTT Mainten
Management ance &
Control Plane Control Applications and
Software Defined Mobile Network Control Software Defined Mobile Network Connector Optimiz
Orchestration ation
PLATFORM

Data Plane Virtual Network Function Physical Network Function

Network Radio Acess Network Core Network Transport Network

INFRASTRUCTURE

Spectrum Efficiency | Cloud RAN | SDN | SD- WAN | NFV | Internet exchange Point Millimetre wave
SON | MEC
Software based 5G Support
Network
Infrastructure
Hardware
Small Cell Optical Massive Smart Code Division Ultra Wide Band Network and adjacent
Technology MIMO Antenna Multiple Access technologies
Points

Non Access Stratum

Radio Resource Control S1 Application Protocol
5G
Protocols Packet Data convergence Protocol Stream Control Transmission Protocol
Radio Link Control Internet Protocol
New
Medium Access Control
Implemented Long Term Evolution PHY Ethernet
Protocols

User Equipment LTE Uu 5G (eNodeB) S1 Mobility Management Entity Mobility Management Entity
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Note: SON – Self Organized Network, MEC – Mobile Edge Computing, SDN – Software Defined Networking, NFV – Network Function Virtualization 7
Note: DRAUP Methodology
 Core 5G Job Role Taxonomy: A deeper analysis of Job-Corpus resulted in 30+ Job roles clustered Core 5G
across 7 Job families
Core Engineering Roles (Design, Development & Testing of 5G Platforms) Implementation Roles Emerging Roles

5G Software Development (SW) Platform 5G- IoT

5G protocol stack S/W developer Wireless S/W Engineer Implementation/ Engineering

5G S/W infrastructure engineer RF/DSP S/W Design

Network Architect System Engineer, IoT, 5G
Platform Layer

5G Standardization Systems Engineer -

5G mmW Design Engineer 5G-Baseband SW Developer Engineer 5G,NFV,IoT
5G Wireless System
Core 5G- Baseband Engineering (Embedded/SW) Integration
5G- ML
5G Cloud RAN System
Baseband Infrastructure
Specialist
Engineering
Baseband FPGA Engineer
developer
Network Planning System Engineer, IoT, 5G
Baseband Test Engineer Baseband HW Engineer
Engineer
Systems Engineer -
5G Modem Design Engineer LTE/5G RF Engineer LTE/WCDMA Packet 5G,NFV,IoT
core solution Architect
5G System Integration
5G Embedded/ ASIC Engineering (Embedded/HW) Architect 5G- Security
Infrastructure

5G/LTE Embedded Firmware 4G/5G Wireless System Networking S/W Engineering

Engineer Engineer
Layer

Architect Solution Architect- 5G

Firmware Engineer- 5G 5G Field Applications Wireless Network Security
Architecture & Design Cloud Security
RF FEM/MEMS PHY Engineer 5G Wireless RTL Engineer Architecture and E2E
5G UDM Integration
Solutions
Roles analysed Not analysed in current study
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Note: SON – Self Organized Network, MEC – Mobile Edge Computing, SDN – Software Defined Networking, NFV – Network Function Virtualization 8
Note: DRAUP Methodology
 US- Core 5G Skill Distribution Deep dive: Precisely estimating the talent suited for 5G, involves Core 5G
several interviews and deeper understanding of technical stacks across resumes and profiles
Domain and Digital skills considered for analysis are filtered by the following criteria
• Skills: Software Development, Baseband Engineering, Embedded/ASIC Engineering, Platform Orchestration/Network Architect.

5G Software Development, 5G Baseband

Engineering,
1.a 5G Embedded/ASIC Engineering and
Platform Orchestration/ Network Architect Talent
pool Demand
Total Employed talent pool 12,000
5G Software
Development ~5,500 Total 5G Software Development Talent
Core 5G Talent Pool

Core 5G- Baseband

Engineering ~1,500 Total 5G Baseband Engineering Talent

5G Embedded/ ASIC
Engineering ~3,000 Total 5G Embedded/ASIC Engineering Talent

Platform Implementation/
Network Architect ~2,000 Total Platform Orchestration/ Network Architect
Talent
~1,700 Adjacent talent pool in Seattle which can
be upskilled to 5G engineers
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Note : DRAUP’s Talent Simulation Module 9
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