Principal RF Engineer -Design Lead

Principal RF Engineer -Design Lead 
Duration: 6 months to 1 year
Location: Austin TX

MUST have prior T-Mobile //Nokia Design experience

JOB DESCRIPTION *
Tech Mahindra Network Services (formerly LCC) has an opening for a Principal Engineer  who will act in a technical lead role and provide in-depth engineering support without supervision. engineer must have understanding of T-Mobile tools and processes. Nokia experience a must.  Also must have experience managing teams approx. 5-10 people in size. 
 
12+ years of relevant wireless experience, including mostly LTE, but also CDMA and EVDO. The Design Engineer position requires a practical understanding of wireless network design, capacity planning, network optimization and performance engineering. Required design skills and knowledge include the ability to develop theoretical Radio Access Network designs utilizing all aspects of network planning software – this includes the use of site database information, the ability to incorporate drive test data and the ability to tune propagation models. Ability to discuss with C&I on configuration changes during scoping meetings

Update multiple integration and site trackers. Required capacity planning skills and knowledge include the ability to plan network capacity improvements based on subscriber forecast, usage models and trending of performance and traffic data. Create new cell site translations and neighbor lists and support System Performance and RF Engineers in evaluating and improving areas of poor coverage by identifying system performance problems. The Design Engineer should have the ability to determine optimal cell placement and performance based on factors relating to interference, coverage footprint, interference, link budgets and capacity management.

 
JOB REQUIREMENTS
Educational Requirements: B.S. or equivalent in Electrical Engineering or a closely related field.

Experience Required: 6 years (as Principal Engineer Sr. Engineer Design Engineer RF Engineer or in a related position)

Specific Skills or Other Requirements: Solid understanding of RF network design capacity planning and optimization and performance engineering; and ability to develop theoretical RF designs utilizing all aspects of propagation prediction software. This includes incorporation of site database information the ability to incorporate drive test data and tuning of propagation models; ability to factor other infrastructure requirements relating to 3G wireless data fixed/wireless office etc.; expert knowledge of propagation tools (such as Planet Wizard etc.); extensive experience with data collection tools (such as Agilent TEMS Invex 3G etc.) and post-processing tools like ACTIX Windcatcher etc.).

Must have solid experience working with various networks such as GSM CDMA and WCDMA , and LTE.  5G preferred. 

Must have experience as a Team Lead. Must also have project management and report writing abilities. Experience must also include Frequency planning Neighbor planning Code planning for GSM CDMA, WCDMA and LTE networks; and RF performance of GSM and UMTS networks.

Thanks & Regards, 
Imran (Emu) Shikalgar 
APN Software Services, Inc 
39899 Balentine Drive, Suite 385, Newark, CA 94560 
510-402-4704 (Voice & Text) 
Phone: 510-623-5050 Extn.129 | Fax 510-623-5055 | Imran@apninc.com 
linkedin.com/in/imranshikalgar
 

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