RF Engineer II- Staffing

KGP Telecommunications • West Nyack, NY

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About The Position

Circet USA is seeking an RF Engineer to conduct and assist with design and testing of radio products, including developing test plans and ensuring accurate, consistent product testing. The role performs systems testing and verification, investigates issues with new radio product offerings, and follows established procedures to gather and analyze reliable data. It also supports debugging and resolution activities with software and hardware design groups and communicates engineering results, plans, and recommendations through reports and presentations.

The engineer works with 5G and LTE technologies and may perform field activities such as site shakedowns, acceptance testing, scanner drives, and cluster drives. Responsibilities include troubleshooting network performance and connectivity, processing drive-test logs, and supporting drive-test coordination as required. Sporadic project travel may be necessary.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in engineering.
• 4–8 years of directly related experience.
• Ability to write, read, analyze, and interpret technical journals and procedures.
• Ability to support presentations of technical information in business settings to audiences with varying backgrounds.
• Strong knowledge of the LTE air interface and PHY, MAC, RLC, RRC, and PDCP layers.
• Ability to travel sporadically during the project.
• Ability to use mapping software such as Streets and Maps, QGIS, and MapInfo.
• Experience with objective-oriented drive-testing scenarios for FIT/FOA and FFA tests.
• Experience with frequency bands such as Sub-6, C-band, and mmWave, and understanding of their propagation characteristics.

Nice To Haves

• Prior experience in telecommunications engineering activities.

Responsibilities

• Perform systems testing and verification, and resolve issues related to new radio product offerings.
• Follow established testing processes and procedures to ensure reliability, accuracy, and thorough collection and analysis of data.
• Maintain knowledge of existing, current, and newly developed base station products and components.
• Assist with creating test plans, trouble reports, automation scripts, and MOPs; generate problem reports and ensure satisfactory resolution of problems.
• Interface with software and hardware design groups and assist with debugging and resolution activities.
• Prepare reports and compile and analyze data and engineering information to communicate processes, results, plans, recommendations, and conclusions.
• Troubleshoot 5G field KPIs, connections, handovers, drops, and diminished throughput using protocols such as TCP and UDP.
• Perform site shakedowns, ATPs, scanner drives, and other field activities as needed.
• Enable or disable log-mask settings for objective-oriented testing scenarios.
• Perform multi-device testing and troubleshoot connectivity issues.
• Perform cluster drives, process logs, and ensure collected data reliability across NR and LTE.
• Support a subset of drive-test coordination efforts as required.
• Keep abreast of emerging technologies through conferences and technical journals, publications, and websites.
• Communicate testing bottlenecks clearly to Senior Engineers.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level