Systems Engineer for Large Public Venues (East Coast)
About The Position
The Systems Engineer for Large Public Venues on the East Coast provides technical support and leadership in creating deliverable Wi-Fi and wireless technology solutions that meet customer business needs. The role builds and maintains customer relationships, provides deep product and technology expertise during sales pursuits, and consults on end-to-end technical designs as a subject matter expert. The position has substantial technical impact and provides leadership on significant projects and programs. It contributes to strategic and architectural direction, addresses critical business challenges, and shares expertise by mentoring others and connecting teams across functions. The role primarily works from home, with frequent travel to customer sites on the East Coast. The engineer works with venue operators, IT teams, facilities leaders, business stakeholders, sales teams, product teams, services teams, and channel partners to design and support high-density venue connectivity. Success means delivering designs that perform reliably at full capacity and help customers provide dependable connectivity for guests, staff, and venue operations.
Requirements
- Significant experience designing and deploying enterprise wireless networks, including direct experience with stadiums, arenas, convention centers, or similarly dense environments.
- Expert knowledge of RF fundamentals, 802.11 standards, channel planning, client behavior, roaming, authentication, and wireless troubleshooting.
- Hands-on experience with predictive survey and validation tools, packet analysis, spectrum analysis, and wireless performance measurement.
- Strong understanding of campus switching, PoE, segmentation, network access control, and resilient network design.
- Experience developing technical proposals and influencing complex customer decisions in a presales, consulting, or solution architecture role.
- Ability to communicate with network engineers and senior business leaders.
- Willingness to travel for customer workshops, site assessments, deployments, and event support.
- Must live on the East Coast to travel frequently to customer sites.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with HPE Aruba Networking wireless, switching, management, and security solutions.
- Experience with outdoor wireless, directional antennas, under-seat or other venue-specific deployment methods, and temporary event networks.
- Familiarity with private cellular, DAS, or integration of Wi-Fi with other venue connectivity systems.
- Relevant wireless certifications, such as CWNP credentials, or comparable demonstrated expertise.
Responsibilities
- Lead technical discovery with venue operators, IT teams, facilities leaders, and business stakeholders to define coverage, capacity, reliability, security, and operational requirements.
- Develop wireless designs for seating bowls, concourses, suites, entry points, outdoor spaces, and event floors, accounting for changing crowd density and venue configurations.
- Perform or guide predictive modeling, site surveys, spectrum analysis, capacity planning, access point placement, antenna selection, and post-deployment validation.
- Design solutions for guest access and critical venue services, including ticketing, point of sale, staff communications, media operations, and connected devices.
- Advise customers on Wi-Fi 6E and Wi-Fi 7, 6 GHz planning, roaming, interference management, and the wired infrastructure needed for high-density wireless.
- Translate technical requirements into architectures, bills of materials, proposals, demonstrations, and proof-of-concept plans using the HPE Networking portfolio.
- Work with sales, product, services, and channel teams to resolve technical questions and strengthen solution proposals.
- Present designs and recommendations to technical teams and executive audiences, explaining tradeoffs, expected outcomes, and implementation considerations.
- Support deployments and major events as a technical escalation resource and use performance data to identify improvements.
- Provide technical leadership on significant project and program work, connect people across functions, and mentor others.
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits supporting physical, financial, and emotional wellbeing.
- Career development programs to help employees pursue career goals.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
