We are seeking a Wireless Core Network Engineer who will support various engineering functions within META SOFT INNOVATIONS team to include the following activities:
- wireless lab and trials, 5G Core Quality Assurance and testing, support of Cox Wireless use-cases for 5G Core engineering inclusive of:
- Fixed Wireless Access, MVNO network offload, IoT and Private Managed Networks engineering. Since the Wireless Engineering Technology roadmap continues to mature in our company, the Wireless Engineer engineering task support will morph and grow with these changes.

This role is ideal for someone located in Bucharest, open for a mix work regime (office and remote, as is the case) and long term partnership, with a unique blend of technical expertise, operational excellence, leadership skill set, and with strong prioritization, facilitation, and communication skills.

Job Duties and Responsibilities
- Support the design, build and test activities with regards to new products, services, hardware, software and feature/functionality within our wireless use cases centered around 5G core network activities inclusive of testing, traffic analytics, scripting, hyperscaler and 5GC OEM engagements;
- Clearly understand technical problems and define solutions to mitigate those problems;
- Define solution test strategy, specific test cases, execute tests, revisit design as necessary and document results;
- Methodically scope, troubleshoot, diagnose, and fix complex problems as required on Cox wireless networks while minimizing customer impacts and outages;
- Partner with Operations team members to prepare low level designs, configurations and methods and procedures to gain operational perspective, including network reliability, scalability, simplicity, and standardization to ensure success through launch of the change;
- Partner with peer Engineering team members to gain in-depth understanding of proposed changes to hardware, software or configurations and associated implications;
- Replicate production issues in wireless lab environment along with traffic generators/simulators as necessary to test fixes and to regression test launches;
- Assess and continually improve lab methods and procedures;
- Quickly understand preliminary product/platform concepts or high-level designs and subsequently author technical requirements as necessary based on those understandings;
- Translate high level engineering documentation into working configurations and test plans and enhancing areas with additional applicable data where necessary;
- Participate in planned maintenance activities during maintenance windows as needed.

Skills, Experience and Requirements (minimum)
- 2 years of experience as a technical engineer in the Wireless Communications Industry;
- Fundamental knowledge in LTE and 5G Core 3GPP standards, protocol and wireless OEM architectures;
- Fundamental knowledge in all packet-based protocols such as TCP/IP (including protocols like DHCP, DNS, TCP, UDP, etc.);
- Basic Networking knowledge (VLAN, subnetting, IPv4 and IPv6);
- Fundamental knowledge in scripting (shell, python, perl, etc.);
- Excellent communication, presentation and interpersonal skills Preferred;
- Bachelor of Science in Electrical or Computer Science Engineering and 5 years of experience as a technical engineer in the Wireless Communications Industry;
- Specific experience in the performance management or operating of large-scale service provider wireless networks or experience with a Wireless OEM vendor that supported its Mobile Network Operating customers with broad wireless mobility technology experience that should include LTE and/or 5G Core networks;
- Intermediate knowledge in Network Monitoring Systems and Device/Network Management Systems, like SNMP, etc.;
- Understanding of Cloud computing technology o Familiarity with simulation tools such as Spirent.

Does the above description fit your profile? Amazing! We look forward to receiving your CV and portfolio of works at the address office@meta-soft.eu asap. Please use the following subject title for your email message: Wireless Core Engineer. Note: part-time option is considered, as well.