RF Engineer

RF Engineer:

Work daily on customer premises.

Minimum requirements to select and submit experienced candidates. All the criteria should be met:

• Minimum ten (10) years' experience with BSEE/BSCS or applicable experience. Recent experience in radio network design, implementation and/or tuning/optimization systems is required.

• Leadership experience is required for five+ projects. Two projects must be the leader for all technical activities in a large scale (major metropolitan area or statewide geographic area) and responsibilities must include technical organization and oversight of work and demonstrated excellence in communications with team, project manager, and customer

• Experience in working with different services including 5G NR, Massive MIMO, mmWave, LAA (License Assisted Access), 4G LTE, IOT, CBRS and/or multi-vendor • Understanding of layer 3 messages for 4G and 5G

• Able to perform event analysis and address accessibility, retainability and HO success rate issues Design

• Extensive experience in planning tools such as Planet EV and Atoll

• Detailed understanding of the link budget

• Detailed understanding of inputs required, and how to create a new project in a planning tool, tilt/azimuth optimization, proposing new site locations etc.

• Have used the ACP (Automatic Cell Planning) tool

• Able to make recommendations to improve a network design (cell plan)

• Detailed understanding of Monte Carlos Analysis

• Able to perform model tuning Identify add-on sales opportunities Tuning

• Able to make recommendations in parameter changes, feature activations on drive test data to improve the system performance

• Detailed understanding of optimization tools such as TEMS investigation, Actix, Agilent and R&S

• Experience in tuning a loaded network, and understand the difference between artificial and real traffic loading

• Detailed understanding of Layer 3 messaging

• Able to collect and analyze drive data and performance statistics, and solve complex issues

• Knowledge on how IRAT procedures can affects the overall network quality

• Suggests improvements to tools

• Understand the impact of adding additional carrier(s) on the network including 5G Optimization

• Has the competence to implement and experiment on RAN features relative to traffic analysis

• Understands the relationship between Handovers and Network Capacity, and how to optimize both

• Detailed knowledge of the Ericsson ENM, and how to operate the optimization tools • Detailed knowledge of KPIs and able to make recommendations to improve them • Understand how enhance uplink tuning is performed

• Detailed understanding and experience in LTE/5G optimization Additional skills • Proficient with MS Office

• Flexibility of extensive travel within the US

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

• Ability to operate with high degree of independence, while managing project and customer expectations

• Ability to coordinate activities with various Ericsson departments, divisions and companies

• Ability to identify and interpret customer requirements, and develop plans to address them