Senior 5G RF Optimization Engineer (35558)

Location: Chicago, Illinois

About the Role

The Senior 5G RF Optimization Engineer will optimize the performance, reliability, and quality of 5G radio access networks in both Standalone and Non-Standalone environments. This role combines deep technical expertise with customer engagement, service delivery, and pre-sales support.

Responsibilities

• Lead the radio-frequency optimization of 5G Standalone and Non-Standalone networks.
• Troubleshoot and improve key performance indicators related to throughput, accessibility, retainability, latency, capacity, and coverage.
• Conduct detailed KPI analysis, identify root causes, and resolve network-performance issues and service outages.
• Lead technical discussions with customers to identify improvement opportunities and recommend effective solutions.
• Develop and present network-performance findings, optimization recommendations, and status reports.
• Recommend and implement radio-network parameter changes to improve performance.
• Support the implementation and tuning of new 5G radio-access-network features.
• Analyze neighbour relationships and implement required corrections.
• Investigate end-user and customer-reported network issues.
• Provide on-site network-design, optimization, and performance-support services.
• Contribute technical expertise during pre-sales discussions, customer presentations, and service-delivery activities.
• Deliver technical training covering multi-vendor, multi-technology, multi-band radio networks.
• Develop optimization processes, technical guidelines, and operational best practices.
• Ensure all work complies with established processes, methodologies, tools, and service-quality standards.
• Collaborate with local and international engineering teams to deliver high-quality customer outcomes.

Requirements

• Minimum of five years of experience optimizing 5G radio-access networks.
• Minimum of two years of experience supporting Voice over New Radio and Voice over LTE.
• Minimum of ten years of RF optimization experience across LTE and UMTS networks.
• Strong experience optimizing live commercial 5G networks.
• Expert knowledge of 5G radio-network KPIs and performance counters.
• Demonstrated expertise creating, analyzing, and presenting statistical KPI reports.
• Experience with RF drive-testing and measurement tools such as TEMS or equivalent platforms.
• Experience with drive-test post-processing and analysis tools such as Actix or equivalent platforms.
• Strong understanding of radio-network parameters, mobility, neighbour relations, interference, coverage, capacity, and call-flow analysis.
• Proven ability to investigate complex end-user and customer network issues.
• Experience providing technical support directly to customers, including on-site engagements.
• Ability to develop technical processes, guidelines, training materials, and optimization standards.
• Strong focus on network quality, service excellence, and customer satisfaction.
• Excellent leadership, collaboration, presentation, and communication skills.
• Ability to work effectively within international and cross-functional teams.
• Strong customer-relationship-management skills.

Qualifications

Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Telecommunications, Computer Science, or a related technical discipline.