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Sr. Cellular Engineer

Tesla Motors, Inc.
Sparks, NV Full Time
POSTED ON 10/21/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 12/21/2026
What to Expect

Specialize in public and private cellular technologies in an enterprise, retail, and manufacturing environment.This role will provide private wireless solution design, implementation, and support.The engineer will ensure compliance to established system architecture, regulations, and security policies, follow standards and best practices, and author and maintain support documentation.


What You'll Do
  • Design, implement, and support LTE/5G Radio Access & Core network
  • Perform onsite surveys and perform RF propagation modeling
  • System capacity and performance planning to scale
  • Monitor, analyze and report metrics of wireless solution
  • Troubleshooting network problems related to latency, client connectivity and mobility
  • Responsible for managing the E2E deployment which include coordination with cross funstional teams ensuring the requirments have been fulfilled
  • Responsible for managing the site Alarms, Software upgrades for Baseband and core nodes, Post upgrade validation
  • Must be able to work occasional weekends, after hours, and holidays
  • 15% travel required as necessary

What You'll Bring
  • 7 years of experience in LTE/5G/CBRS Radio Access Network
  • Experience with indoor/DAS/Small cells implementation and thorough understanding of CBRS band and its dependencies
  • Experience with IP networking, L2/L3 network protocols, TCP/IP, DHCP, DNS, QOS, NAT
  • Experence of managing the vendros and suppliers and experience with low voltage cabeling and fiber termination MDF/IDF
  • Worked on at least one of following design tools - Atoll, Planet Mentum , ASSET or iBwave
  • Extensive experience with RF principles, cellular, and RF tools
  • Experience with private wireless client development and POC (i.e., AGV, wireless torque tools, laptop, tablets, scanner, cameras, PLC communications)
  • Experience with enterprise wireless solution
  • Experience with developing scripts to automate infrastructure deployment and collect metrics
  • Experience with private cellular network vendors is a plus

Benefits

Along with competitive pay, as a full-time Tesla employee, you are eligible for the following benefits at day 1 of hire:

  • Medical plans > plan options with $0 payroll deduction
  • Family-building, fertility, adoption and surrogacy benefits
  • Dental (including orthodontic coverage) and vision plans, both have options with a $0 paycheck contribution
  • Company Paid (Health Savings Accounts) HSA Contribution when enrolled in the High-Deductible medical plan with HSA
  • Healthcare and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)
  • 401(k) with employer match, Employee Stock Purchase Plans, and other financial benefits
  • Company paid Basic Life, AD&D
  • Short-term and long-term disability insurance (90 day waiting period)
  • Employee Assistance Program
  • Sick and Vacation time (Flex time for salary positions, Accrued hours for Hourly positions), and Paid Holidays
  • Back-up childcare and parenting support resources
  • Voluntary benefits to include: critical illness, hospital indemnity, accident insurance, theft & legal services, and pet insurance
  • Weight Loss and Tobacco Cessation Programs
  • Tesla Babies program
  • Commuter benefits
  • Employee discounts and perks program
  • Earned Wage Access: Real-time pay access paid daily, subject to eligibility and schedule (applicable for below Sr. Managers levels)

    Tesla is an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer committed to diversity in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, gender identity or any other factor protected by applicable federal, state or local laws.

     

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