AR-RFSE5 - Engineer V - Svcs RF, Texas

These are customer-facing SME/Lead roles sitting in the customer office. Locations available: St Louis, New York City, Minneapolis, and Baltimore. Positions need to be filled quickly so please ensure candidates meet ALL the requirements.

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 in a large scale (major 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 3 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 understand 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 affects 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

• Understands 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 able to make recommendations to improve them

• Understand how enhance uplink tuning is performed

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

Additional skills

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

• Ability to operate with high degree of independence, while managing project and customer expectations

• Ability to coordinate activities with various Ericsson departments, divisions and companies

• Ability to identify and interpret customer requirements, and develop plans to address them