• Location: Chicago, Illinois
• Type: Contract
• Job #35558

Senior 5G RF Optimization Engineer

Location: Chicago, Illinois

Position Overview

The Senior 5G RF Optimization Engineer will be responsible for optimizing 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. The successful candidate will lead network-performance initiatives, resolve complex technical issues, recommend improvements, and present innovative solutions to customers and internal stakeholders.

Key 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.

Required Qualifications

• 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.

Education

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