Sr RAN Engineer

Sr RAN Engineer

Location: Dallas, TX Duration: 12 months Skills: 5G RAN Foundation

Client is transforming the future of connectivity. Client is building the country's first virtualized and cloud native smart standalone 5G wireless network from scratch. The foundation of a connected world, it's a network free of the limitations of the past, and flexible enough to satisfy all the social, economic, and transformative needs of the changing world.

Job Duties and Responsibilities

Working with key Engineering and Operations Teams, the candidate will provide subject matter expertise (SME) support with RU and RAN/vRAN/ORAN technologies. Will lead the development of operational and assurance standards guaranteeing radio access networks meet or exceed design specifications. Will analyze service and system issues, determine root-cause for failure and develop corrective actions. Corrective actions can range from configuration changes to developing new operational procedures. Will contribute to on-going process improvement reviews using key performance indicator (KPI) metrics to eliminate errors, maximize hardware/software efficiencies and increase service up-time leading to an overall excellent customer experience.

In this role, you will:

• Participate in vendor engineering reviews of hardware/software development in lab proof of concept environments.
• Provide lead support with market teams to troubleshoot/resolve complex issues with deployed RF and RAN systems.
• Engage and escalate issues with vendors when critical/time sensitive support and resolution is needed.
• Develop key metrics for performance monitoring and service assurance.
• Coordinate proposed changes with certification lab(s) for validation.
• Produce updated technical specifications of system changes and provide a comprehensive plan for release.
• Ensure solutions meet key criteria for CI/CD, system orchestration and automation.
• Work with technical writers/engineers to document final process configurations and MOPs to support field operations.
• This position may provide on-call support on a rotational basis.

Skills, Experience and Requirements

• BS or MS in Engineering or technical degree or an equivalent combination of highly related experience and education.

• A passion for working on new technologies in a fast-paced and frequently changing environment.

• Must be able to effectively communicate with all levels of the organization through conventional methods (verbal and written).

• Excellent interpersonal skills including the ability to interact with technical and non-technical teams.

• Extensive understanding in 5G ORAN / vRAN split functions (7-2x, RU, DU, CU, CP, UP...)

• Extensive understanding and experience in RAN/vRAN software architectures in a virtualized environment.

• Extensive understanding of RF radio operations over eCPRI interfaces. Includes CSR, DU and timing configurations.

• Extensive understanding of software systems/services running virtualized ORAN functions.

• Understanding of latency considerations and issues from gNB to data center locations.

• Understanding and experience with virtualized networks, orchestration, and automation across a large network architecture.

• Thorough understanding of vRAN/ORAN architecture described in 3GPP standards (Rel 15 & 16).

• RF design, optimization and performance improvement experience is a plus.

• Deep understanding of LTE, VoLTE, 5G VoNR L2/L3 call flows with ability to understand and analyze traces (PCAP, GNB traces)

Qualification:

• BS or MS in Engineering or technical degree or an equivalent combination of highly related experience and education.

• 8+ years of experience in the wireless industry

• Must be self-motivated, able to manage simultaneous events efficiently

• Able to achieve goals by working professionally with other team members