LTE RF Hardware Test Engineer

Seattle Search Group

Industry: Technology

Category: Engineering

Job Type: Full Time/Permanent

Salary: N/A

Education: Bachelor′s degree

Experience: 5-10 Years

Location: Bellevue, United States

Posted Date: 06-16-2021

Job Description: Seattle Search Group, the leader in staffing and recruiting, has teamed up with a local technology consulting company to find an LTE RF Hardware Test Engineer for their Redmond office.

Mandatory Skills

  • RF Transmitters and Receiver Parametric Testing for LTE, WCDMA and GSM
  • Receiver desensitization measurements, noise-profiling, co-existence measurements and testing
  • RF Calibration, verification of modem RF front-end.
  • Experienced with RF Equipment like Wireless Communication Tester (CMW-500,or MT8820, UXM Series), Signal analyzers (PXA, FSW), VNA and power meters
  • Good Knowledge on communication theory, wireless systems, propagation considerations, signal processing, analog and digital filtering
  • RF Test & measurement data analysis & debug
  • 3GPP Specification for RF conformance (GSM, WCDMA, LTE & 5G-NR) 36.101, 36.521.xx, 25.101/102 etc
  • RF Station Calibration.
  • QC Tools - QPST, QDART  

Role Responsibilities:
  • Test RF design and LTE/Wi-Fi performance in particular RF parameters within 3GPP, IEEE specs
  • Expert in CMW500, Anritsu tester MT8820 to test 3GPP specifications, carrier, and internal requirements.
  • Experience in root causing RF test failures and work closely with design team to implement and retest the schematic/layout changes.
  • Ability to test LTE/WCDMA Layer 1 parameters and find any product issues to meet the requirements. Prior experience filing bugs and follow up on bug resolutions, capture device and test equipment logs etc.  

Qualifications:
  • BS, MS required with 5 to 10 years of relevant RF hardware and system design for consumer electronic products. 
  • Expert in RF standards across 3GPP, IEEE. Experience and understanding in RF component characteristics and behavior.
  • Programming skills in Labview/C#/Python is a plus.  

Nice To Have:

  • QXDM log analysis, QSPR Scripting
  • RF Transmitters and Receiver Parametric Testing for 5G-NR FR1 (sub6) and FR2 (millimeter wave) Bands
  • Cellular call flow and understanding of protocol
  • Automation/Scripting knowledge - Labview, Powershell, python, perl 

If you have any questions, or would like more information on the position or company, please reach out to David@seattlesearchgroup.com       

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