Network Engineer - 69545

We are seeking a Network Engineer with a minimum of 10 years of experience in radio network design, implementation, and optimization. The ideal candidate will have leadership experience, expertise in 5G NR, Massive MIMO, and other technologies, and excellent communication skills.

Requirements

• Minimum ten (10) years’ experience with BSEE/BSCS or applicable experience
• Recent experience in radio network design, implementation and/or tuning/optimization systems
• Leadership experience for five+ projects
• Experience in working with different services including 5G NR, Massive MIMO, mmWave, LAA, 4G LTE, IoT, CBRS and/or multi-vendor
• Understanding of layer 3 messages for 4G and 5G
• Ability to perform event analysis and address accessibility, retainability and HO success rate issues
• 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.
• Able to make recommendations to improve a network design (cell plan)
• Detailed understanding of Monte Carlo Analysis
• Able to perform model tuning
• Identify add-on sales opportunities
• 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
• Suggest improvements to tools
• Understand the impact of adding additional carrier(s) on the network including 5G
• 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 wireless company 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