Job Description

**Job Description**
The Field Systems Engineer will support all field and lab trials for all
mobile operators and partner engagements for Cohere Technologies, Inc. This
position requires expert knowledge of cellular networks and a minimum of 10
years of experience working with mobile operators in their lab and field trial
environments. Working experience with 4G and 5G cellular and/or private
networks. The person will propose product features and enhancement, based on
experience as well as customer and partner feedback – to Cohere engineering
and executive teams. This position requires prior experience with customer
facing presentations of products, Lab and field test results. Prior experience
with Telco Cloud and Open RAN a big plus. This position will combine
development, testing, solution, and task management skills to work with the
customer and various levels of Cohere’s engineering and corporate SE team to
deliver on Cohere’s customer and partner commitments. This position will
report to the VP of Field Systems Engineering.

Job Responsibilities
• Manage testing in both lab and field for all customers and partners in the
Americas and potentially internationally, with support from HQ (located in San
Jose, CA).

• Engage customer in technical meetings to present Cohere’s solutions, debate
their efficacy, and incorporate customer feedback into resolution process.
• Assist in resolving issues and explaining to customer; work with corporate
SE and engineering team to solve cases.
• Execute predefined test plans and document results on 4G and 5G systems.
• Perform configuration of the RAN/network to simulate and test various
environments.
• Perform LTE/5G/OTFS static and mobility testing in the customer lab and OTA.
• Install and validate new product software releases in the lab and OTA
environment.
• Build and manage the physical installation to implement various test
scenarios.
• Contribute to system integration, diagnosis, and validation of Cohere
software.

Qualifications and Skills
• The minimum qualification is a BS in Electrical Engineering.
• 7+ years of telecommunications product development and support.
• Experience with Hyperscale Cloud Partners and Open RAN standards a big plus.
• Must have demonstrable lab and field expertise with L1, L2, L3.
• Presentation, negotiation, and persuasion skills to customers, and partners.
• Create and execute on lab and field test plans.
• Deep understanding of wireless radio technology principles.
• Experience with RAN technologies.
• Experience with system testing and integration of wireless communication
products in a lab and outdoors.
• Experience with radio infrastructure design.
• Experience with radio debugging and drive test tools is mandatory including
lab equipment such as signal analyzer, signal generator, spectrum analyzer,
etc.
• Experience with configuring EPC/5GC and troubleshooting end-to-end call flow
is a plus.
• Experience with technologies like eCPRI, 1588/PTP timing, Massive MIMO, link
budgets.
• Experience with UE simulation and channel emulation test tools is
preferable.
• Experience with Shell scripting.
• Excellent written and verbal English.
• Must be able to travel domestically and internationally. This position can
require up to 80% travel at times- we will go over on our first call.

Walking, being out in the field, carrying boxes and set up testing equipement
when needed.