Technical Lead or SME for Testbed platform

Job Title: Technical Lead/SME for Testbed platform

Location: 445 Hoes Ln, Piscataway, NJ 08854 (Onsite- 5 days a week)

Hire Type: Contract

Software Lead/ Architect role for the Testbed platform development:
Act as a resident technical subject matter expert for the Testbed platform .
Analyze the platform's evolutionary needs and understand the customer use cases, in active collaboration with the Customer's management team.
Work with staff and volunteer steering committees and advisory committees to develop the long-term technical roadmap for the product.
Conduct training or demonstrations with new and potential customers - either 1-on-1, or 1-to many at industry events or online.
Promote the platform at industry events as needed/requested.
Participate in sales calls as needed to provide technical expertise.
Create and manage user accounts of the Testbed platform; onboard, support and train new users.
Break down business problems into value-added deliverable increments.
Approve user stories, managing and prioritizing the technical teams' backlog while maintaining
the conceptual and technical integrity of the product/feature requirements.
Participate in agile ceremonies (sprint reviews and retrospectives) to plan incremental releases and defining release objectives.
Provide support for test automation and story acceptance criteria.
Accept/Reject user stories in the release baseline.
Oversee the process of software development, deployment of new elements and continuous integration of the Testbed platform.

Summary/JD:

Client & Customer Engagement: Participate in client and customer meetings, conduct technical onboarding sessions, and resolve technical issues.



Requirements & Roadmap Management: Gather and analyze requirements, create roadmaps for future development, and manage sprints, backlogs, and acceptance criteria for the Client design team.



Testbed Platform Development & Integration: Identify tools for testbed integration, monitor open-source updates to upgrade the platform as needed, monitor 3GPP releases for new features and functionalities, create testbeds in AWS for trials and subscribers.

Note: Need to bring AI and Physical layer research (Massive MIMO, Beam forming, Ray tracing, channel optimizations etc.) capabilities to the Testbed as we need to align for 6G research and development



Optimization & Industry Engagement: Provide continuous improvements to the testbed platform, implement cost-optimization mechanisms in AWS, and participate in Customer's events.

Skills:

1. Good understanding & work experience of the cellular 5G RAN/Core network components & architecture for 5G - O-RAN experience is preferred
2. System integration & testing - Open-source tools like OAI RAN, OCUDU, Open5GS
3. Linux & Bash scripting, Python
4. AWS, Kubernetes & Docker
5. REST APIs & GIT