4G/5G RAN Engineer

One of our Fortune 100 clients is urgently looking for a 4G/5G RAN Engineer.

Hourly: $55 - $58 per hour (W2)

Duration: 1 year + extension (possible to direct hire)

Must-to-Have Skills:

1. Bachelor s Degree in Computer Science or Electrical Engineering.
2. Wireless Telecommunication Engineering including experience in 4G/5G Call Processing.
3. In depth knowledge of RRC, S1-MME, S1-U and X2 protocols Hybrid Beamforming, Massive MIMO, New Waveforms, LTE-NR interworking & co-existence, 5G Numerologies
4. Fluent with 3GPP RAN product architecture, design, implementation and performance improvements (KPIs). Good understanding of scheduler functionality is beneficial.
5. Thorough understanding of 3GPP specification for LTE/LTE-A/5G features and protocols.
6. Performance analysis

Responsibilities:

We are seeking a highly experienced RAN Systems Engineer, 4G/5G Call Processing RAN SME to join our Wireless network team. The Call Processing RAN SME will be responsible for the development of product requirements, feature requirements, systems and performance analysis; while conducting deep-dive customer sessions on 4G/5G call processing related features and air interface technologies.

• Analyze the customer requirements, convert them into system requirements and capture a detailed design for the development team to support all of Samsung s 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.
• Deliver technical proposals, technical research/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.
• Ensures that customer commitments are achieved according to plan.
• 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.
• Accountable for Tier 3 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.