Cohere Technologies is the innovator of software which improves spectrum and user experience with channel detection, estimation, prediction and precoding deployed within a standard-compliant 4G, 5G or open Cloud RAN.

Cohere Technologies is backed by leading investors such as NEA (New Enterprise Associates), Lightspeed Venture Partners, Telstra Ventures, Koch Investments Group (KSP), VMware, Intel Capital, Juniper and Bell Ventures, Bell Canada’s corporate venture capital arm — among others.

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Job Description: 

The Principal Field Systems Engineer will support all field and lab trials for all mobile operators and partner engagements for Cohere Technologies, Inc. This will require up to 80% travel in the Americas and internationally. Travel will be to potential and existing customers and involve walking and being out in the field, setting up test sites for customer testing. 

This position requires expert knowledge of cellular networks and a minimum of 10 years overall 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 enhancements based on experience and 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. Previous experience with Telco Cloud and Open RAN. 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. 

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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 the customers in technical meetings to present Cohere’s solutions, debate their efficacy, and incorporate customer feedback into the resolution process. 

• Assist in resolving issues and explaining to customers; work with corporate SE and engineering team to solve cases.

• Execute predefined test plans and document results on 4G and 5G systems.

• Configure 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.

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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 is 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 lab and field test plans.

• Deep understanding of wireless radio technology principles.

• Experience with RAN technologies.

• Experience with system testing and integrating 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, and link budgets.

• Experience with UE simulation and channel emulation test tools is preferable.

• Experience with Shell scripting.

• Excellent written and verbal English needed to communicate with customers and internal team members. 

• Must be able to travel domestically and internationally. 

“Applicants must be authorized to work for ANY employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa at this time.”

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