RF Engineer

RF Engineer

Plano TX

Long term Contract

• On Optimization (Extensive experience is required)

Description

These are customer-facing SME/Lead roles sitting in the customer office.

• 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 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- especially for improving VoLTE AFR and DCR, traffic management and load balancing, and managing inter-vendor borders