Wednesday, May 16, 2012

Position with Samsung


Position Information
Company: Samsung Telecommunications America (STA)
Location: Bellevue, Washington
Travel Required: None

Terminal Performance Engineer
Position Summary:
The candidate is responsible for testing and evaluating wireless handset products according to test plans for the objective of meeting customer approval. The candidate is also responsible for becoming the local subject matter experts in terms of North American GSM and related standards development and interpretation of customer requirements specifications in order to provide guidelines to project managers and R&D members for feature implementations.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following: Other duties may be assigned. In this position, either directly or through others, the candidate will:
·          Use technical engineering knowledge and experience to test and evaluate new wireless terminal products and associated accessories.
·          Use technical engineering knowledge and experience to understand customer applications test cases.
·          Identify to Product Management and R&D teams of any implementation discrepancies, non-compliance and performance degradations of terminal products for resolutions, regression evaluation and testing.
·          Leads or guides other Field Test Engineers (internal or contracted) in the performance of complex, semi-routine and routine application tests, including those at customer locations, to evaluate product compliance to customer acceptance criteria.
·          Interface with customer technical engineering teams for the management (interpretation, reproduction, tracking and verification of resolution by R&D) of non-compliance reported by them. Where appropriate, make recommendations to product management personnel and R&D engineers on corrective actions required and effectively adapt solutions agreed upon in a timely manner to ensure correct and effective product launches and installation.
·          Proofing of technical and/or user manuals for clarity and accuracy.
·          Perform test equipment solution assessment, evaluation and recommendation to Senior Management and Executives.
·          Generate, track and close non-compliant issues in Samsung configuration management environment. Perform regression tests of firmware improvements to validate corrective actions of GSM, WCDMA, and LTE subscriber products.
Background/Experience to qualify for this position, the following minimal background and skill levels are required:
·          A Bachelors Degree in engineering or related electronics technical training from four-year college or university.
·          Between 0-2 years technical experience or telecommunications engineering related experience.
·          Must be able to read, analyze and interpret technical requirements and procedures.
·          Must have excellent MS Office proficiency.
·          Strong preference for bilingual ability (English & Korean)