Senior RF Engineer
Position: Senior RF Engineer
Location: Plano, TX
Travel Required: 25%
Pay Rate: Salary
Job Description
- Managing deliverables and developing network solutions based on the customer’s growth plans, capacity constraints, new features and technologies.
- Responsible for gaining the skills to ensure the technical content on network projects by analyzing the customer’s requirements and ensuring that the network solutions proposed will meet the optimum needs of the Wireless customer.
- Provides support to customers for questions or issues and works to respond in a timely manner, typically within 24 hours if possible.
- Proactively seeks methods or solutions that will better a customer network or engineering processes.
- Is a member of the RF Engineering team and applies their technical knowledge to issues related to the development of the RF Network Design.
- Communicates knowledge internally to further develop MobileNet engineers while maintaining customer confidentiality requirements.
- Where applicable and able, helps MobileNet develop new business via any contacts made during projects assuming no risk at discrediting or competing with current core customers.
Required Qualifications
- M.S. in Engineering, Electronics, Computer Information Systems, Telecommunications or related field or 8+ years of cellular/ telecommunications experience.
- Must speak and write fluently in English.
- Candidates must be legal residents or authorized to work in the US for any employer.
- Work flexible hours and support night or weekend work as required.
Desired Qualifications
- Proficient in various RF data collection tools and post processing tools (e.g. WirelessLogix, Comarco, Andrew Invex, Ericsson TEMS, Nortel’s RFO, etc.,)
- Experience in creating scripts for carrier adds, re-homes, hardware upgrades and hot swaps.
- Experience in creating neighbor lists, prepared cluster drive routes and Sector test routes
- Experience managing system performance drive test teams which provide reports on cell site shakedown/ verification, cluster or market benchmark drive tests, and/or CW tests.
- Experience in analyzing drop call, access failures, IRAT and make recommendations to improve KPI?s
- Experience in deployment and/or migration of new sites and carriers in GSM, UMTS, CDMA, EVDo, or LTE.
- Proficiency in MapInfo.