Job Description :
Job Title: Network QA Engineer Duration: 4-12 month contract Location: Plano, TX. (Remote for now, expected to work onsite when offices reopen) Position Summary: We are looking for a 4G/5G Call Processing RAN SME to join our Wireless network team. You will be a key contributor as a subject matter expert in a multi-functional team of R&D, Systems engineering, and product validation to introduce Samsung products to Wireless Carrier. Specific Responsibilities: * Responsible for development of product requirements, feature requirements, systems and performance analysis, conduct deep-dive customer sessions on 4G/5G Call processing related features and air interface technologies. * Analyzing the customer requirements, converting then into system requirements and capturing of detail design for the development team for all Samsung product features. * Responsible for leading all technical discussions on Samsung products/scheduler related features with several customer vertical organization including 4G/5G RAN Development groups and RAN performance groups. * Author technical proposals, Technical research and white papers, design documents, Operator network design, RFI/RFP, and Patent filings. * Aid in product & feature performance analysis, evaluation of new product & SW releases and third party product evaluation to build product synergies. * Provides expert technical support in the pre-sales process and creates compelling technical and commercial solutions in order to help achieve the assigned sales goals and business objectives. * Translates and communicates complex technical design considerations between the Samsung sales team and carriers network business * Educate our customers on Samsungs new products and services both individually and in a team environment. * Ensures that customer commitments are achieved according to plan. * Works closely with various support organizations, logistics, and cross-functional teams from SEA and Samsung HQ to achieve successful new product rollouts and developments. * Accountable for leading field integration testing efforts (FFA/FIT/FSA) of all 4G/5G key features with customers, including test plan development, reviewing test plan with customers, driving cross-functional teams to execution, review of test results, issue identification, analysis and quality proofing until software acceptance is achieved. * Responsible for Tier3 support, analyzing and troubleshooting scheduler related issues reported from customer labs, field sites and production network. * Review and provide recommendations to improve LTE RAN network performance by evaluating and trending key KPIs, performing trials and providing optimization guidelines. Requirements: * Undergraduate Degree in engineering with 8-10 years of directly related experience is required. A Masters with 8+ years of experience is preferred * Must have 4G/5G Call Processing experience with In depth knowledge of RRC, S1-MME, S1-U and X2 protocols and understanding of concepts such as Hybrid Beamforming, Massive MIMO, New Waveforms, LTE-NR interworking & co-existence, 5G Numerologies etc . * Experienced and fluent with 3GPP RAN product architecture, design, implementation and performance improvements (KPIs). Good understanding of scheduler functionality is beneficial. * Strong Programming skills in C desired, experience with memory optimizations, multi-Core programming, assembly language debugging preferred. * Experience with system engineering activities such as feature requirements identification, feature description documentation, parameter optimization, performance analysis, test strategy creation, problem troubleshooting is desirable * Thorough understanding of 3GPP specification for LTE/LTE-A/5G features and Protocols, experience with ongoing 3GPP Rel-15/16 activities is beneficial * Working knowledge of various RF antenna technologies & network optimizations. * Ability to travel sporadically during the project -- , Krishnasree | US IT Recruiter Thought wave software and solutions 314 N, Lake St, Suite 6, Aurora IL 60506 Mobile Email: Website: LinkedIn: