RF Service Engineer V

Overview:

TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients world-wide. This Client is one of the leading providers of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) to service providers. We enable the full value of connectivity by creating game-changing technology and services that are easy to use, adopt, and scale, making our customers successful in a fully connected world

Job Title: RF Service Engineer V

Location: St Louis, MI / New York City, NY / Minneapolis,MN/ Baltimore, MD/ Plano, TX.

Duration: 12 Months

Job Type: Contract

Work Type: Onsite

Job Description:

All the criteria should be met:

Minimum ten (10) years' experience with BSEE/BSCS or applicable experience. Recent experience in LTE and 5G 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

Prior experience with Nokia RAN is desirable, but not required.

Understanding of layer 3 messages for 4G and 5G

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

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

Optimization (Extensive experience is critical)

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 Client's 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- especially for improving VoLTE AFR and DCR, traffic management and load balancing, and managing inter-vendor borders. Additional skills

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 Client's departments, divisions and companies

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

TekWissen® Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.