Wi-Fi Architect
Philadelphia, PA, PA
Full Time
Experienced
Job Title
Wi-Fi Architect
Location
Philadelphia, PA
Work Arrangement
Onsite
Employment Type
Contract – W2
Pay Rate
$55–$60/hr on W2
Experience
13+ Years
Job Description
We are seeking an experienced Wi-Fi Architect with strong hands-on experience in Wi-Fi/networking testing, CPE devices, Linux embedded systems, and packet analysis.
The candidate will perform exploratory and investigative testing of Wi-Fi features across CPE devices, gateways, routers, and extenders, with a primary focus on identifying complex, intermittent, and real-world issues.
Responsibilities
- Perform exploratory testing of Wi-Fi features across CPE devices, gateways, routers, and extenders.
- Validate Wi-Fi functionality including:
- SSID creation and management
- WPA2/WPA3
- WPS
- Band steering
- Client steering
- Mesh behavior
- Roaming and handoff
- Multi-AP scenarios
- Test Wi-Fi across mobile devices, laptops, IoT devices, and smart TVs.
- Perform testing in dense client, interference, channel congestion, and environmental variation scenarios.
- Identify edge cases, race conditions, and intermittent issues.
- Perform throughput, latency, packet-loss, soak, stress, performance, and stability testing.
- Analyze packet captures, logs, and system traces.
- Use Wireshark, iPerf, and tcpdump for troubleshooting and analysis.
- Work with developers, architects, and product teams to reproduce and troubleshoot complex issues.
- Execute limited scripted/regression testing while maintaining a primary focus on exploratory testing.
- Log detailed defects with reproduction steps, observations, logs, and packet captures.
Required Skills
- 13+ years of professional experience.
- Architect-level experience required.
- Strong hands-on Wi-Fi / 802.11 experience.
- Experience with Wi-Fi 4/5/6.
- Knowledge of 2.4GHz / 5GHz / 6GHz.
- Hands-on CPE / Gateway / Router / Extender testing.
- Hands-on experience with Mesh / Roaming / Band Steering.
- Linux Embedded Systems experience.
- Hands-on experience with Wireshark / iPerf / tcpdump.
- Packet capture and log analysis experience.
- Performance and exploratory testing experience.
- Must be willing to work onsite in Philadelphia, PA.
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