Job Description

12 month contract

$68/hr. W2 ONLY

Onsite

Job Summary: RF Engineer

The RF Engineer is responsible for optimizing and enhancing wireless network performance, with a strong focus on LTE and 5G technologies. The role requires a minimum of ten (10) years of experience in RF optimization and tuning, including leadership on at least five projects, two of which must involve managing all technical aspects in large-scale metropolitan or statewide deployments.

All the criteria should be met:

• 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 on a large scale (central 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 three 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 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 of how IRAT procedures can affect 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

• Understand 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 ability to make recommendations to improve them

• Understand how enhanced uplink tuning is performed

• Detailed understanding and experience in LTE/5G optimization- especially for improving VoLTE AFR and DCR, traffic management, load balancing, and managing inter-vendor borders.

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