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WIVERSE

RF Optimization Engineer

WIVERSE, Englewood, Colorado, us, 80151

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12-month contract, with potential for extension, or conversion to full-time, based on performance and client availability.

These are customer-facing SME/Lead roles sitting in the customer office.

Locations available: St Louis, New York City, Minneapolis, and Baltimore.

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, mm Wave, 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 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 • Understands the relationship between Handovers and Network Capacity, and how to optimize both • Detailed knowledge of the 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 a high degree of independence, while managing project and customer expectations • Ability to coordinate activities with various departments, divisions and companies • Ability to identify and interpret customer requirements, and develop plans to address them