N1- 5G Systems Test Engineer
Samsung, United States
Job Description
Position Summary
If you have ambitions to be a part of a Best in Class organization, Samsung’s Wireless Networks team is the place to be! The role of the Wireless Networks Team is to support our carrier customers through innovative technology road map. The dynamic culture at Samsung offers both great challenge and great reward. If you want to work among the very best talent in the industry, working on the most innovative products in the world, Samsung is the place to be.
We are looking for a 5G System Test Engineer to join our Wireless Networks team. You will be a key contributor being technical interface to customer market teams. You will have your finger on the pulse of the entire customer network. You will monitor the network health, make improvement recommendations and repair the network. You represent Samsung when leading network outages in a multi-vendor environment.
Role and Responsibilities
Perform complex system verification, and customer support of Samsung 5G RAN Equipment including virtual EMS, vRAN
Perform feature validation, interoperability testing, field evaluation to get product acceptance from customer
Aid in product & feature performance analysis, evaluation of new product & SW releases
Ensures that customer commitments are achieved according to project plan
Work with team members to prepare test plans/cases and execute to validate RAN CP/OAM functionality
Interface proactively with Product/Technology Engineers to ensure comprehensive test coverage
Responsible for analyzing the customer requirements, developing test strategy for features and functionalities, converting customer requirements into test plans and detailed test procedures
Educate our customers on Samsung’s 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 roll-outs and developments
Ability to travel sporadically during the project; up to 20%
Technical Acumen
Subject Matter Expert in driving the technical solutions to customer through complex organizational dynamics
Job Specification
Presentations Skills
Leveraging your ability to communicate effectively with all levels of organization as well as HQ partners on initiative
Excellence Dealing with Ambiguity
Bringing your experience in problem solving and ability to navigate complex organizations with pivotal shifts
Other Skills:
Familiar with RLC/MAC layer, different types of control channel and traffic channels, network access procedures, power control, handover algorithms, QoS types, TDD/FDD modes, HARQ/ARQ concepts, etc.
Be able to develop tools and scripts to automate tasks on OSS and eNBs to aide with the investigation as needed
Skills and Qualifications
Must: 8+ years of relevant industry experiences with BSEE or BSCS or 6+ years with MSEE or MSCS
Bachelor’s Degree is EE/CS is required. Masters in EE/CS is beneficial
Must: Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Must: Some travel required for customer presentations, design reviews, and onsite debugging.
Must: Hands on ability to establish and demonstrate new technology.
Must have PC and UNIX Workstation experience in a LAN/WAN systems environment
Strong knowledge in 5G/4G air interface and call processing technologies and network architecture specifically focused on Radio Access Network
Good understanding of overall Wireless systems with emphasis on PHY, MAC, RLC, RRC and PDCP layers
Must have understanding on wireless concepts such as Hybrid Beamforming, Massive MIMO, New Waveforms, LTE-NR interworking & co-existence, 5G Numerologies etc. .
Experience with system engineering activities such as feature requirements identification, feature description documentation, parameter optimization, performance analysis, test strategy creation, problem troubleshooting is desirable
Have in-depth technical engineering experience including wireless telecommunications engineering activities.
Must be able to write, read, analyze, and interpret technical journals and procedures utilizing mathematics language, non-linear communications, vectors, complex numbers and logarithms as reference.
Must have a good understanding of the overall 5G/LTE RAN Network Architecture.
Must experience with product testing, development of Test Plan and Test Cases
Must have technical lead working with team members and providing technical guidance
Must have working knowledge and experience using RF test equipment
Must have thorough understanding of SW development cycle
Must have the ability to support market issues to meet commercial SLAs.
Must be hands on experience with mobility management & mobile broadband Radios.
Must have working knowledge of 5G/LTE protocol stacks