RAN Engineer (4G/5G Call Processing/RAN SME)

Position Summary

Headquartered in Englewood Cliffs, N.J., Samsung Electronics America, Inc. (SEA), the U.S. Sales and Marketing subsidiary, is a leader in mobile technologies, consumer electronics, home appliances, enterprise solutions and networks systems. For more than four decades, Samsung has driven innovation, economic growth and workforce opportunity across the United States-investing over $100 billion and employing more than 20,000 people nationwide. By integrating our large portfolio of products, services and AI technology, we're creating smarter, sustainable and more connected experiences that empower people to live better. SEA is a wholly owned subsidiary of Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

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Role and Responsibilities

Samsung Electronics America (SEA) is seeking an experienced RAN Performance SME Engineer, who will be responsible for the development of product requirements, feature requirements, systems and performance analysis, conduct deep-dive customer sessions on 4G/5G Call processing related features and air interface technologies. The incumbent will analyze customer requirements, convert them into system requirements and capture detailed design for the development team for all Samsung product features.

• Responsible for leading all technical discussions on Samsung products/scheduler related features with several customer vertical organization including 4G/5G RAN Development groups and RAN performance groups.
• Author technical proposals, technical research and white papers, design documents, operator network design, RFI/RFP, and Patent filings.
• Aid in product & feature performance analysis, evaluation of new product & SW releases and third-party product evaluation to build product synergies.
• Provide expert technical support in the pre-sales process and creates compelling technical and commercial solutions in order to help achieve the assigned sales goals and business objectives.
• Translate and communicate complex technical design considerations between the Samsung sales team and carriers' network business.
• Educate our customers on Samsung's new products and services both individually and in a team environment.
• Ensure customer commitments are achieved according to plan.
• Work closely with various support organizations, logistics, and cross-functional teams from SEA and Samsung HQ to achieve successful new product rollouts and developments.
• Accountable for leading field integration testing efforts (FFA/FIT/FSA) of all 4G/5G key features with customers, including test plan development, reviewing test plan with customers, driving cross-functional teams to execution, review of test results, issue identification, analysis and quality proofing until software acceptance is achieved.
• Responsible for Tier3 support, analyzing and troubleshooting scheduler related issues reported from customer labs, field sites and production network.
• Review and provide recommendations to improve LTE RAN network performance by evaluating and trending key KPIs, performing trials and providing optimization guidelines.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering and 6+ years of direct related experience.
• Must have 4G/5G Call Processing experience with in-depth knowledge of RRC, S1-MME, S1-U and X2 protocols and understanding of concepts such as Hybrid Beamforming, Massive MIMO, New Waveforms, LTE-NR interworking & co-existence, 5G Numerologies etc.
• Experienced and fluent with 3GPP RAN product architecture, design, implementation and performance improvements (KPIs).
• Strong Programming skills in C desired, experience with memory optimizations.
• Experience with system engineering activities such as feature requirements identification, feature description documentation, parameter optimization, performance analysis, test strategy creation.
• Thorough understanding of 3GPP specification for LTE/LTE-A/5G features and protocols.
• Working knowledge of various RF antenna technologies & network optimizations.
• Ability to travel sporadically during the project.

Preferred Qualifications:

• multi-Core programming, assembly language debugging preferred.
• Experience with system engineering problem troubleshooting is desirable.
• Experience with ongoing 3GPP Rel-15/16 activities is beneficial.
• Good understanding of scheduler functionality is beneficial.

Skills and Qualifications

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