Staff Engineer - Wireless

Company Summary

DISH, an EchoStar Company, has been reimagining the future of connectivity for more than 40 years. Our business reach spans satellite television service, live-streaming and on-demand programming, smart home installation services, mobile plans and products, and now we are building America's First Smart Network.

Today, our brands include EchoStar, Hughes, DISH TV, Sling TV, Boost Infinite, Boost Mobile, DISH Wireless, OnTech and GenMobile.

Job Duties and Responsibilities

Staff Engineer - Wireless sought by DISH Wireless LLC in Littleton, CO.

Oversee our 5G network RAN Infrastructure Automation (RIA), design and engineer practices. Partner with architects, field engineers and regional markets to capture the requirements and improvement suggestions for RIA and translate those requirements into high-level design documents.

Lead system engineering activities to improve the RIA solution as the DISH 5G network grows. Partner with consumer-facing and regional markets to understand customer requirements and translate them into DISH's 5G CI/CD automation features and use cases to achieve zero-touch network operations. Identify, document and drive development of specific features and capabilities for RIA with key building blocks for "Day 0," "Day 1" and "Day 2" stages of the network.

Develop detailed requirements, adjusting and maintaining those requirements as DISH 5G network operation grows for nation-wide coverage. Support the development of solutions in the areas of CI/CD processes, infrastructure as code, end-to-end automation covering 5G RAN including transport and data center using VMware TCI, TCA and VMC services. Drive prioritization of operational issues, and drive RIA design and scaling requirements in support of the wider organization. Lead system-level testing for product quality assurance and lead troubleshooting when issues arise in the field.

Job requirements:

Requires: Bachelor's degree (or foreign equivalent) in Computer Science, Electronic Engineering, or closely related field plus 10 years of overall experience (at least 5 years of which must be progressive post-baccalaureate experience) in the wireless network industry in job offered or RF Consultant. Also requires 10 years of experience with/using the following (which may have been gained concurrently):

• mobile network technologies including RAN engineering, RAN optimization, network

operations, network performance management;

• 3GPP network architecture with emphasis on ORAN, MANO, CNF, BSA;

• SDN orchestration, network element management systems (EMS), cloud service platforms;

• Wireless access technologies: WiFi, BLE and LoRa; IP transport technologies; agile software development, CI/CD principles, infrastructure as code and end-to-end automation of mobile and/or telecom networks;

• VLAN, IP networking, VPN's, DNS, load balancing, and firewalling;

• Open API design, HTTP, JSON, and YAML protocols.

Skills, Experience and Requirements

Employment is contingent on successful completion of a pre-employment criminal background check, which may include a drug test.

Rate of pay: $159,598.00

Benefits information available at careers.dish.com.

Apply at careers.dish.com. Ref: 2024-87775 if applying externally through careers.dish.com; Ref: 2024-87822 if applying internally.

May also apply by emailing resume with (Ref: 2024-87775) to tasharedservices@dish.com. The posting will be active for a minimum of 3 days. The active posting will continue to extend by 3 days until the position is filled.

Salary Ranges

Compensation: $159,598.00/Year - $159,598.00/Year

Benefits

The posting will be active for a minimum of 3 days. The active posting will continue to extend by 3 days until the position is filled.