Lead Engineer

The Lead Engineer is responsible for driving system integration strategy and execution across wireless communication products, ensuring high-quality and timely delivery. The role combines hands-on technical leadership, cross-functional coordination, and ownership of integration outcomes across 4G eNodeB and evolving 5G gNB systems. The Lead Engineer leads integration planning, validation strategy, and complex issue resolution, while mentoring engineers, managing priorities, and ensuring alignment with architectural, process, and release goals.

• Drive end-to-end system integration activities across 4G and 5G releases, ensuring alignment with product roadmap
• Analyze and translate system and feature requirements into integration strategy, scope, and phased validation plans
• Lead cross-functional collaboration with software, hardware, verification, and field teams for seamless integration
• Own creation, execution, and optimization of integration and system-level test strategies
• Identify and resolve complex cross-domain system issues, driving root cause analysis and closure across teams
• Define and influence verification and field-testing scope, ensuring end-to-end system readiness
• Support customer use cases, field escalations, and delivery roadmap decisions with technical insights
• Ensure tracking and governance of integration issues, risks, and dependencies with proactive escalation management
• Mentor engineers, review test strategies and artifacts, and establish best practices for integration and validation
   

Mandatory Skills:

• Working in 4G/5G eNB/gNB product with strong involvement in integrating L1, L2, L3 & OAM components as a SIT feature/maintenance release.
• System Integration testing: Hands-on experience in 
  o    End to End testing on 4G/5G eNB/gNB elements. 
  o    Testing the Layer 1, 2 and 3 functionality and features.
  o    Validating the functionality compliance to standards, specification and requirements
  o    Verifying 3GPP call flows and scenarios
  o    Using the simulator and emulator for network and traffic simulation (Preferred TM500/E500, Keysight, SIMNOVOUS, etc.
  o    Analyzing logs, pcap  (FAPI and FH Pcap analysis) and radio parameters analysis. 
  o    MAC, RLC and PDCP log analysis
• Must have good knowledge and hands on experience on wireless and networking protocols
• Exposure to RU/MU-MIMO and Integration with BBU.
• Should have worked on Core Features like LA, Power control, Data Forwarding etc.
• Creating test campaigns for positive and negative field scenarios, call models.
• Strong log analysis and feature co-relation skills
• Good experience in using the standard software version controller like GIT/GERRIT
• Must have good knowledge in SDLC
   

Desired Skills:

• Good to have Core SIM knowledge to configure RAN and test.
• Skills of continuous build integration and automation.
• Hands on experience with Bash and Python scripting 
• Skills in automation and automation framework
   

• Experience: 7 to 10 yrs from Telecommunication or Networking background.
• Education: B.Tech/BE (CSE/ECE) or any other equivalent degree