System Engineer

Company Overview

At Motorola Solutions, we believe that everything starts with safety. It’s the constant that empowers people to confidently move forward. It can fill a flight or sell out a stadium. It can care for a patient or graduate a class.

As a global leader in public safety and enterprise security, we create and connect the technologies that help to keep people safe where they live, learn, work and play. Our integrated technology ecosystem unifies critical communications, video security and access control, and command center software, enabling collaboration in more powerful ways.

At Motorola Solutions, we’re ushering in a new era in public safety and security. Bring your passion, potential and talents to a career that matters.

Department Overview

At Motorola Solutions, we help people be their best in the moments that matter. We help firefighters see around buildings and police officers see around street corners. Our work is very meaningful, impactful, and cutting edge and we invite you to explore it. We are the Best!
Motorola Solutions is a world leader in the field of professional mobile communications systems with an impressive heritage of technological innovations and a global base of installed systems. The group's main business is the implementation of mission critical digital mobile communication systems for Government & Public Safety Communications customers.
Job Description

Our Company has an outstanding track record of success and strives to build long term relationships with our customers. Customer satisfaction is given great emphasis and we strive to build a trusted advisor relationship with every customer.

The customer team comprises Sales, Project Management, System Engineering and System Technologist personnel working together in a high performance culture, often with demanding cycle times and high customer expectations because we are working on mission critical communication systems.

Many of our systems are designed around the APCO Project 25 communications standard. With the growth of data services some of our customer’s mobile wireless networks are being enhanced with LTE infrastructure for applications such as live mobile video transmission supplementing our traditional core voice and narrow-band data networks.

The Senior System Engineer will take responsibility for and oversee all technical aspects of assigned project from award until system acceptance.

This involves:

• Final Design and implementation of the radio network including infrastructure, subscribers, and mobile back-haul

• Customer presentations

• System staging

• System acceptance testing

• Radio coverage testing and interference mitigation

• Radio system licensing (FCC/Industry Canada/NTIA)

• Preparation of system fleet-map, encryption and radio programming templates

• Complete system documentation 

• Live system upgrades

• FED: Technical Requirements tracking through the use of RTVMs

Travel is required for all project phases, from design through final acceptance.

Specific Knowledge/Skills:

• Bachelor's Degree and 2+ years of Systems Engineering or Wireless Communications experience OR

• Master’s Degree in Engineering or related field

• Experience/knowledge in radio communication systems, radio propagation, RF, wireless or broadband/LTE

• Experience, good understanding, and working knowledge in IP networking, network design methodologies & troubleshooting (Ethernet, TCP/IP, L2/L3, MPLS)

• Certifications through CompTIA Network+, Juniper JNCIA-Junos, Nokia NRS1, CCNA or similar

• Experience directly working with end-user customers is desirable

• Excellent communications skills and the ability to present complex topics to nontechnical audiences.

• Self motivated and able to maintain focus in a pressured environment

• Ready to be in business' trips up to 40% of working time

Preferred Experience:

• Previous knowledge and experience working with Juniper, Aviat, Cisco, Nokia/Alcatel, Xtreme, Ceragon

• Experience with switching and routing protocols (OSPF, ISIS, iBGP, eBGP, M-BGP, MPLS RSVP-TE, and LDP)

• Experience/knowledge in line of sight microwave propagation

Basic Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Networking, IT, Cyber Security or Information Systems

• Must be a US Citizen with the ability to obtain background clearance as required by government customer

Travel RequirementsUnder 25%
Relocation ProvidedNone
Position TypeExperienced
Referral Payment PlanYes

Our U.S. Benefits include:

• Incentive Bonus Plans
• Medical, Dental, Vision benefits
• 401K with Company Match
• 9 Paid Holidays
• Generous Paid Time Off Packages
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Paid Parental & Family Leave
• and more!

EEO Statement

Motorola Solutions is an Equal Opportunity Employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran's status, or, any other protected characteristic.