RF Engineer II

Job Description

EchoStar builds solutions that help families and communities stay connected. We’ll launch your career and empower you to change lives.

Our brands include Boost Mobile, DISH TV, Gen Mobile, Hughes and Sling TV. We serve millions of customers with offerings ranging from satellite to streaming services and global to personal networking solutions.

Our Wireless Technology team is transforming the future of connectivity by building and enhancing the country’s first virtualized, standalone 5G wireless network from scratch. Our network is free of the limitations of the past, and flexible to satisfy all the social, economic and transformative needs of the changing world.

RF Engineer sought by DISH Wireless, L.L.C. in Roseland, NJ

Perform RF design activities related to building the first standalone 5G broadband network in the US. Optimize end-to-end RF design, propagation modeling and prediction, for deployment of Macro Cell deployment. Determine equipment and power configurations. Work with eNB/RAN and UE teams on RF solutions including modifications to RF link budgets on a per site level basis to meet operations requirements. Perform site candidate evaluation and selection as well as site walks. Work with RF Management to establish design criteria, link budget, and traffic analysis as needed for network design and update existing performance parameters for ongoing improvements as required.

Requires: Bachelor’s degree (or foreign equivalent) in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a closely related technical degree plus 3 years of experience in job offered or similar roles. Must have experience in each of the following (which may have been gained concurrently):

• 4G or 5G (1 year)
• Macro and small cell nominal and final RF designs including development, operations, RF KPIs, and maintenance of RF link budgets for 3GPP technologies (2 years).
• Setting up, calibration, utilization, and data processing of various LTE design and optimization equipment and software (1 year).
• Planet or Atoll (2 years).
• Model calibration (1 year).
• Drive test data post-processing, map generation, frequency planning and interference matrix analysis and site database maintenance, using Windcatcher or Actix or Accuver (3 Years).
• Equipment co-location requirements for multiple operators and experience performing inter-modulation and other external interference analysis. (3 years)

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

Rate of pay: $115,740.40

Benefits information available at careers.dish.com.

Apply at careers.dish.com. Ref: 2025-94326 if applying externally through careers.dish.com; Ref: 2025-94325 if applying internally. May also apply by emailing resume with (Ref: 2025-94326) to [email protected]. 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.