TITLE: SMERF Engineer Senior

LOCATION: Washington DC

MINIMUM EDUCATION: Bachelor’s degree in IT, related field, or equivalent experience.

REQUIRED EXPERIENCE: 7+ years

INTERVIEWS: In person

Job Description:

The Client looking for the 11-15 years of experience. Provides assessments of technical and operational practices based on leading industry standards specific to the requested technology.

Complete Description:

The Contractor shall provide a RF Engineer with at least five years of experience working at a Public Safety Answering Point (PSAP). The RF Engineering Consultant will be responsible for working with LMR radio system, software, and programs. In addition, the RF Engineering Consultant will also be responsible for designing / testing radio code plugs validating radio and system performance and evaluating new communication devices.

The RF Engineering Consultant will perform technical work in the field of Land Mobile Radio (LMR) and wireless communications system engineering, design, and implementation. The consultant will be responsible for program review, compliance with licensing regulations, requirements gathering, design review, change management, and final acceptance of systems. Duties will include RoIP system engineering and radio code plug design / programming. Furthermore, the consultant will conduct short and long-term planning to meet communications requirements. The consultant will also be responsible for performing hardware / software analysis to provide comparative data of performance characteristics and suitability within the existing systems environment.

Skills:

· SME in complex enterprise level projects. Required 11 Years

· Master’s degree in IT or related field or equivalent experience. Required

· Experience working in a PSAP. Required 5 Years

· interoperable radio experience. Required 3 Years

· Land Mobile Radio experience. Required 3 Years

· Radio network coverage and interference analysis experience. Required 3 Years

· Experience with RF engineering tools including Wizard and drive test tools. Required 3 Years

· Experience in developing fleetmaps, code plugs, and programming radios for public safety. Required 3 Years

· Experience managing Motorola User Configuration Manager. Required 3 Years

· Experience in troubleshooting WS systems, including but not limited to cell, microwave, LMR, UHF, etc. Required 3 Years

· Experience with public safety infrastructure. Required 3 Years

· Experience with P25 radio network. Required 3 Years

· Experience and knowledge of public safety communications and interoperability. Required 3 Years

· Experience and knowledge with LTE and WIMax – Standard practices. Required 3 Years

· Experience and knowledge of PSAP operations. Required 3 Years

Experience and knowledge of wireless communications - combination of theory and practice. Required 3 Years

Flexible work from home options available.