Senior System Performance Engineer

Senior System Performance Engineer

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Job location:

Syracuse, NY;

Employer:

John Mezzalingua Associates LLC d/b/a JMA Wireless)

Pre Deployment

Activities:

Conduct site surveys and CW testing to capture accurate RF, structural, and environmental details. Validate and refine iBwave designs based on real‑world constraints and customer discussions. Support design review, ensuring compliance with RF standards, coverage objectives, and product capabilities. Documentation & Engineering Coordination:
Produce and maintain critical project documentation, including fiber logical diagrams, rack diagrams / elevations, sector & PCI mapping, Cell Hub cascading diagrams, as‑built designs. Ensure clear handoff of materials from survey through commissioning and closeout. Drive consistency and efficiency by developing engineering templates, standards, and workflows.

Deployment & Commissioning Support:
Provide construction and integration support to ensure systems are built and turned up according to design. Perform configuration reviews, parameter audits, and commissioning validation. Support FE/DET with on‑site or remote troubleshooting during installation and integration.

Post Deployment Services:
Conduct RF walk testing, throughput testing, and coverage validation after installation. Evaluate network KPIs to ensure performance meets expectations for reliability, coverage, and capacity. Perform troubleshooting and optimization to resolve performance gaps or design‑to‑field mismatches.

Product, Process, and Cross‑Functional Feedback:
Provide data‑driven performance feedback to PLM/PO for feature refinement, roadmap decisions, and design improvements. Collaborate with R&D and NPI on system behaviors identified during deployments or RF validation. Share best practices and participate in training/knowledge transfer sessions with FE, DET, and other engineering teams.

Master’s degree in Electrical or Electronics Engineering plus three years of experience in the offered position or as an RF Engineer or Network Engineer with a telecommunications company; OR bachelor's degree in Electrical or Electronics Engineering plus five years of progressive post‑bachelor’s experience in the offered position or as an RF Engineer or Network Engineer with a telecommunications company.

All required experience must have included designing and integrating 4G and 5G radio networks based on RF theory and 3

GPP standards, and LTE including VoLTE and RAN networks and frequency bands; understanding RF propagation, interface, intermodulation, frequency coordination, and cellular system design including link budgets; experience with 4G and 5G  flows with integration of protocols S1‑MME, S1‑U, and X2; knowledge of carrier aggression, DSS, single‑user and multi‑user MIMO, higher‑order modulation on 4G and 5G technologies to improve network performance, capacity, and reliability;

performing network planning, using coverage prediction tool iBwave, and conducting after‑installation measurement using RF scanners; and using QXDM/QCAT, XCAL/XCAP, PCTEL Seahawk, and TEMS/Actix.

Position requires approximately 25% domestic travel for site visits.

Salary: $135,700 - $140,000/year. Apply online at , Job Code SSPE
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