Job Title: 5G/LTE Expert– Telecom
Location: Dallas Texas 5x/week
Employment Type: W2 - Contract
Telecom Domain Mandatory
Context
We are seeking a highly skilled 5G/LTE Expert to join our innovative team. This role focuses on the design, development, and optimization of next-generation high-performance fixed wireless gateways. You will work closely with hardware, firmware, and software teams to deliver reliable, standards-compliant, and high-throughput 5G/LTE solutions.
Main Missions
- Contribute to the 5G technology and product roadmap
- Guide customers during the product definition phase
- Participate to hardware design choices (key components, cost driven conception).
- Guide engineering Software developments during the design phase
- Propose SW architecture and evolutions in Sagemcom supported middlewares while identifying opportunities of contributions to open source communities such as PRPL or RDK-B
- Build test plans to confirm functions and performance of the products
- Reproduce, Investigate and resolve issues with the engineering teams, SoC vendor support and the customers
- Conduct trainings to Sagemcom engineering groups involved in 5G/LTE projects. Maintain a corporate knowledge database
- Follow chip-makers and module vendors roadmaps
- Evaluate new chipsets, software and RF solutions, module vendor samples
- Benchmark certification labs capabilities, lead certification efforts for our CPE remotely or locally in the US labs
Skills and qualifications
· Minimum 10 years of experience in the industry.
· Strong understanding of 3GPP standards including LTE, 5G NR (NSA & SA)
· Protocol stack expertise for layer 1~3 protocols, including PHY, MAC, RLC, PDCP, RRC, …
· Understanding of carrier aggregation, dual connectivity (EN-DC) and other advanced 5G/LTE features.
· Familiarity with RF principles and physical layer parameters, such as SNR, RSSI, RSRP, RSRQ, SINR.
· Strong knowledge of IP networking protocols (IPv4/IPv6, NAT, XLAT, DNS, DHCP).
· Proficiency in modem log analysis tools, such as QXDM, QCAT, Wireshark.
· Ability to analyze over-the-air (OTA) signaling and low-level logs for failure root cause (attach failures, handovers, call drops,…) and performance bottlenecks.
· Use of log decoders and post-processing scripts (e.g., Python) for test automation and data analysis.
· Familiarity with network emulators and test equipment, such as R&S, Anritsu, Keysight, Spirent.
· Understanding of carrier conformance and GCF/PTCRB certification processes.
· Experience with interoperability testing (IOT) with major network operators.
· Effective communication with cross-functional teams, including RF, software, test.