Communication Systems Engineer

Communication Systems Engineer

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in wireless, electrical or computer engineering or other technical or engineering field and 4+ years of technical or engineering experience
• OR 6+ years in communication systems engineering or similar technical or engineering experience
• Legal authorization to work in the U.S. indefinitely is required. Employer work permit sponsorship is not available for this position.

Responsibilities

• Take total responsibility and oversee all technical aspects of assigned projects from award until system acceptance.
• Provides post-sales technical expertise during the installation, implementation and maintenance systems.
• Ensures that client’s needs have been met and that the product/solution is fully functioning according to specification.
• Provide follow-up support to company sales staff and customer personnel by disseminating technical information on specific applications.
• Responsible for the complete design of the system from technical roadmap to architectural designs.
• Defines appropriate platforms and system specifications.
• Determines infrastructure, capacity planning, storage requirements and networking protocols.
• Develops technical, tactical and strategic plans, systems definition and feasibility determination.
• Final Design and implementation of the radio network including infrastructure, subscribers, and mobile backhaul.
• Take full ownership of the technical implementation of the assigned projects.
• Provide technical guidance to the project management team.
• Provide technical details and solutions to customer requirements.
• Make technical presentations to technical and nontechnical audiences including to customers.
• Work with third party vendors to ensure overall quality and technical requirements are met.
• System staging (configuration and preparation of equipment for shipment).
• System acceptance testing.
• Radio coverage testing and interference mitigation.
• Radio system licensing (FCC/Industry Canada/NTIA).
• Preparation of system Fleetmap, encryption and radio programming templates.
• Complete system documentation.
• System upgrades.
• Provide subject matter expertise (SME).
• Mentor and lead junior engineers.

Preferred Qualifications

• Ideally pursuing certifications through CompTIA Network+, Juniper JNCIA-Junos, Nokia NRS1, CCNA or similar.
• Knowledge of Juniper, Aviat, Cisco, Nokia/Alcatel, Xtreme.
• Knowledge of switching and routing protocols (OSPF, ISIS, iBGP, eBGP, M-BGP, MPLS RSVP-TE, and LDP).
• Knowledge in line of sight microwave propagation.