What are the responsibilities and job description for the RF Engineer position at ADEX?
RF Engineer :
Work daily on customer premises.
Minimum requirements to select and submit experienced candidates. All the criteria should be met :
- Minimum ten (10) years' experience with BSEE / BSCS or applicable experience. Recent experience in radio network design, implementation and / or 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, IOT, CBRS and / or multi-vendor
- Understanding of layer 3 messages for 4G and 5G
- Able to perform event analysis and address accessibility, retainability and HO success rate issues Design
- 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.
- Have used the ACP (Automatic Cell Planning) tool
- Able to make recommendations to improve a network design (cell plan)
- Detailed understanding of Monte Carlos Analysis
- Able to perform model tuning Identify add-on sales opportunities 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 TEMS investigation, 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
- Suggests improvements to tools
- Understand the impact of adding additional carrier(s) on the network including 5G Optimization
- 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 Additional skills
- Proficient with MS Office
- Flexibility of extensive travel within the US
- 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
