RF ENGINEER

RF Network Engineer

Plano TX

Long term

Job Description:

• 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 Responsibilities

• 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 Responsibilities

• Able to make recommendations in parameter changes, feature activations on drive test data to improve system performance.
• Detailed understanding of optimization tools such as TEMS Investigation, Actix, Agilent, and R&S.
• Experience in tuning a loaded network, and understanding 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 affect 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 ENM, and how to operate the optimization tools.
• Detailed knowledge of KPIs and able to make recommendations to improve them.
• Understand how enhanced uplink tuning is performed.
• Detailed understanding and experience in LTE/5G optimization.