RF Engineer

Job Description

What you’ll be doing...

Join Verizon as we continue to expand our industry-leading network to improve the ways people, businesses, and things connect. Verizon is positioned to lead the “Fourth Industrial Revolution” (4IR) with the emergence of technologies like our best-in-class 5G network and the Internet of Things (IoT) to impact a wide variety of industries such as healthcare, education, manufacturing, public safety, government, and many others. We are in the midst of historic breakthroughs in connectivity and mobility to blend the physical and the digital through cutting-edge technologies such as virtual reality, augmented reality, artificial intelligence, autonomous vehicles, nanotechnologies, 3D printing, wearables, and advanced robotics. As part of this team, you will play a critical role in our network transformation through building a unified network across all lines of business and maintaining the technology that keeps millions of our customers connected.

• Drive requirements, develop process flows, develop priorities and work with NS, HQ, and regions to develop Fuze Planning.
• Deliver health reports to provide visibility into design/traffic/pipeline issues and implement solutions to address them.
• Collaborate with team members and Submarkets to standardize design configurations, equipment, and processes.
• Provide clear 4G and 5G design guidance for Nokia, Samsung, and Ericsson products through the research upcoming/existing RAN equipment and understanding of business direction.
• Work closely with the development team to drive RF standards and processes into nationwide tools and programs.
• Increase efficiency of tool development and creating new ways to automate processes and reporting.
• Work with regions and HQ to prioritize and deploy needed features and enhancements into tools.
• Work as a team with the Submarket Engineers, HQ, and Territory peers to create best practice guidelines from their input.
• Collaborate with team members and Submarkets to standardize design configurations, equipment, and processes.
• Develop resolutions to complex problems that require the frequent use of creativity.
• Lead and evolve/ standardize processes for all network teams.
• Participate in the Submarket review sessions. Observe the regional challenges and concerns so that we can provide better support.
• Develop the logic to forecast RAN network needs.
• Validate offload assumptions in order to improve the accuracy of our offload projections.
• Provide concise, and detailed person to person communication on a daily basis with network team members.
• Work with RF and Engineering to identify ways in which we can deploy solutions more cost effectively and faster.

What we’re looking for...

You'll need to have:

• Bachelor’s degree or four or more years of work experience.
• Four or more years of relevant work experience.
• Valid driver's license
• Willingness to travel.
• Willingness to work flexible hours and support night or weekend work as needed.

Even better if you have:

• A degree in Engineering or Computer Science.
• Leadership skills to lead projects to deliver results and be technically competent in RF/Traffic.
• Extensive experience and knowledge in LTE, CDMA and EVDO networks and their performance.
• Knowledge of equipment operations and network standards.
• Demonstrated proficiency in engineering and operations of Nokia/ALU and/or Ericsson equipment.
• Knowledge of equipment capacity and future capabilities.
• Ability to develop reports and manipulate information using Tableau.
• Program in languages such as Python, JavaScript, SQL, and VBA to drive towards the automation of engineering tools and processes.
• Knowledge of VPI, MPT and other capacity planning and RF/Performance tools.
• Ability to diagnose and correct various system and interworking problems and provide simple and effective summary recommendations.
• Knowledge of network capacity and performance, and ability to prepare network plans.
• Knowledge of wireless systems, digital communication, and traffic engineering.
• Proficiency in mapping software.
• Ability to investigate and implement alternate approaches to resolve difficult problems.
• Flexible to attempt alternate solutions to resolve issues and seamlessly adjust to a dynamic, changing business environment.

When you join Verizon...

You’ll have the power to go beyond – doing the work that’s transforming how people, businesses and things connect with each other. Not only do we provide the fastest and most reliable network for our customers, but we were first to 5G - a quantum leap in connectivity. Our connected solutions are making communities stronger and enabling energy efficiency. Here, you’ll have the ability to make an impact and create positive change. Whether you think in code, words, pictures or numbers, join our team of the best and brightest. We offer great pay, amazing benefits and opportunity to learn and grow in every role. Together we’ll go far.

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