Wi-Fi Architect

Position: Wi-Fi Architect

Location: Philadelphia PA

Duration: Contract/ Fulltime

Job Detail:

• The Wi-Fi Architect will design, develop, implement, and analyze product requirements for Wi-Fi architecture on Customer Premises Equipment (CPE) products.
• The role involves optimizing Wi-Fi radio and antenna parameters to enhance the customer experience and developing metrics to measure improvement.

Responsibilities:

• Include building setups to simulate real-world conditions, researching traffic models, and analyzing industry trends for lab testing.
• The Wi-Fi Architect will collaborate with project teams to develop test strategies and establish best practices.
• This position requires understanding deployment manuals and automation solutions in a fast-paced DevOps environment, quickly tailoring solutions to identify, reproduce, and resolve lab/field defects. The architect will lead teams and projects, sharing expertise in complex environments.

Key Qualifications:

• Experience with WLAN protocols (802.11a/b/g/n/ac/ax/be)
• Expertise in security protocols (WPA2, WPA3, 802.1X)
• Familiarity with Wi-Fi extenders, mesh, and steering protocols (802.11k, 802.11v, 802.11r)
• Strong collaboration with Product and Development teams to define technical requirements
• Ability to characterize Wi-Fi behavior in new products and resolve engineering challenges.
• Communication with tool development teams to optimize automation for new test features.
• Review and validate design specifications, emphasizing product architecture, testability, and verification.
• Assist in developing Quality Assurance strategies and methodologies for product testing.
• Familiarity with advanced Wi-Fi test automation frameworks and industry standards (IEEE, WFA, WBA, IETF).
• Proactively identify and resolve product defects, driving issues to resolution.