Remote Senior RAN Engineer - Network Performance

Corner Alliance; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 100,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Corner Alliance is seeking a Senior RAN Engineer to join our team, bringing 15+ years in RAN engineering to deliver coverage optimization and risk-informed investment analyses. This role emphasizes air interface, propagation, and RF modeling within Federal client engagements, with remote work and client-site responsibilities as needed.

The ideal candidate will translate complex RF findings into actionable recommendations, collaborate with internal SMEs and vendor teams, and maintain audit-worthy

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or closely related technical field.
• 15+ years of hands-on Radio Access Network (RAN) engineering experience, including design, optimization, performance engineering, and operational support.
• Expertise in air interface, propagation, capacity modeling, mobility management, RF engineering, and RAN architecture.
• Experience using industry-standard RF planning and modeling tools to evaluate and optimize coverage, capacity, and performance.
• Proficiency with network design software, RF propagation tools, post-processing tools, drive-test data, crowdsourced data, and GIS-based analytics.
• Experience translating technical findings into investment recommendations, assessing cost/benefit, feasibility, performance impacts, and alignment with strategic objectives.
• US citizenship or permanent resident and ability to pass public trust clearance or suitability.

Responsibilities

• Conduct detailed engineering analysis of AOIs to identify coverage gaps, validate need, assess performance conditions, and quantify potential impacts on Federal client’s network operational performance.
• Produce engineering-based justifications and prioritization recommendations for AOIs, including technical evidence, public safety relevance, feasibility considerations, and investment dependencies.
• Review vendor-provided RAN designs, coverage predictions, and technical proposals and provide expert feedback and recommendations for improvement.
• Develop and maintain documentation packages, including engineering summaries, AOI analysis reports, technical briefing materials, RF analysis outputs, and traceable decision support artifacts.
• Support technical validation of reinvestment program artifacts by performing data quality checks, cross-dataset comparisons, and verification of vendor-submitted deliverables.
• Participate in technical discussions with internal SMEs, vendor engineering teams, and program leadership to support ongoing AOI refinement, coverage-enhancement planning, and investment strategy alignment.
• Maintain audit-ready engineering records documenting inputs, assumptions, analytical steps, rationale, recommendations, and technical outcomes.
• Provide subject matter expertise to inform future network enhancements, long-term RAN planning, and public-safety-driven coverage improvements.
• Carry out our commitments to deliver, grow, and thrive.

Skills

RAN engineering

RF planning

Propagation modeling

GIS analytics

Drive-test data

Wireless networking

Public trust clearance

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering

Tools

RF planning tools

GIS software

Post-processing tools

Drive-test tools

Job description

Corner Alliance is seeking a Senior RAN Engineer to join our team, bringing 15+ years in RAN engineering to deliver coverage optimization and risk-informed investment analyses. This role emphasizes air interface, propagation, and RF modeling within Federal client engagements, with remote work and client-site responsibilities as needed.

The ideal candidate will translate complex RF findings into actionable recommendations, collaborate with internal SMEs and vendor teams, and maintain audit-worthy