Senior RF Engineer (Indoor)

Boldyn Networks; Birmingham; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working opportunities

Parental leave up to 20 weeks paid at

Holiday allowance starting at 25 days

4 days off each year to volunteer

Job summary

Boldyn Networks is seeking a Senior RF Engineer to design, deploy and optimise wireless solutions across major transport hubs. You will craft cellular RF designs for high-traffic environments and work within a multidisciplinary team to meet customer needs.

The role involves conducting RF surveys, performing modelling and creating detailed designs with BOMs, cables and configurations, while controlling costs and ensuring scalable, future-ready solutions.

Qualifications

• Experience designing indoor coverage solutions including active and passive DAS for large scale venues.
• Minimum iBwave certification level 2 (level 3 preferred).
• Knowledge of UK or IE mobile network architecture models and standards.

Responsibilities

• Carry out physical and virtual RF and Design Surveys for in-building DAS infrastructure.
• Perform RF modelling, link budgets and design using iBWave and other planning tools.
• Create low level designs including Bills of Materials, cable schedules and detailed system configuration diagrams, ensuring costs are closely controlled throughout the design process.
• Set design criteria/requirements and perform system dimensioning, link budget and traffic analysis.

Skills

DAS design

RF surveys

RF modelling

Link budgets

iBwave cert (Level 2)

Stakeholder liaison

Education

iBwave certification Level 2

Tools

BIM software

iBwave

Job description

As a Senior RF Engineer, the candidate will support the design, deployment and optimisation of our wireless mobile solutions across the HS2 project. The Senior RF Engineer will work in a multi-discipline design team to create solutions that meet customers’ needs. You will create the cellular RF design of major transport hubs serving millions of passengers every year.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Carry out physical and virtual RF and Design Surveys for inbuilding DAS infrastructure.
• Perform RF modelling, link budgets and design using iBWave and other planning tools.
• Review results, drawings and reports conducted by others.
• Set design criteria/requirements and perform system dimensioning, link budget and traffic analysis.
• Create low level designs including Bills of Materials, cable schedules and detailed system configuration diagrams, ensuring costs are closely controlled throughout the design process.
• Understand the wider context of the design and ensure external interfaces are considered working with other team members to implement an integrated design.
• Ensure designs are dimensioned for current demand and scalable to adapt for future growth and changes in MNO requirements.
• Participate in equipment co‑ordination sessions with HS2 stakeholders and partners ensuring the needs of the RF design are represented in decision‑making and minimise design change.
• Participate in MNO review sessions being able to present the design and provide justification for the design and technical decisions.
• Complete RAMS and abide by company H&S policy.
• Work with project managers and co‑ordinators to deliver projects on time and on budget.
• Liaise with customers, presenting designs to clients, stakeholders and project teams.
• Complete any Handover Packs, Post Integration Reports and Design Reports on agreed timescales and report templates
• Provide estimates on resources required for particular tasks.
• Updating any internal reporting system as required.
• Familiarisation of all company documentation, especially ISO procedures.

This role requires 2 days per week located in Birmingham.

What You’ll Bring

• Experience designing indoor coverage solutions including active and passive distributed antenna systems (DAS) especially for large scale high‑capacity venues such as major train stations.
• Minimum iBwave certification level 2 (level 3 preferred).
• Knowledge of UK or IE mobile network architecture models and standards.
• Experience of designing DAS equipment rooms, including MNO equipment requirements, dimensioning DAS head end, and defining electrical and cooling loads.
• Knowledge of working with architects & BIM modelling teams to plan spacial co‑ordination of equipment.
• Experience of testing methodologies, test tools such as scanners and test phones (TEMS, NEMO etc).
• Advanced knowledge in optimisation and performance optimisation.
• Good knowledge of Radio Link Budgets.

Why work with us?

We’re large enough to deliver and maintain large‑scale operations, giving you the opportunity to work on exciting projects and expand your skills. You’ll be surrounded talented colleagues who thrive on solving problems, just like you. Together, you’ll make your mark on projects that matter and find new strengths along the way.

We also offer:

• Flexible working opportunities
• Parental leave with up to 20 weeks paid at full salary
• Holiday allowance starting at 25 days rising with length of service
• 4 days off each year to volunteer

Diversity recognises the ways we differ. Our backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences. What makes us unique. And it’s important to us, to our future. To build a workforce that’s representative of the societies we serve. So that we can listen, learn and understand how to solve our customers’ problems in the smartest ways possible.

We are looking for passionate people from a range of backgrounds and welcome applications from any race, age, gender, background, or religion.