Systems Engineer for Large Public Venues (East Coast)

The Systems Engineer for Large Public Venues on the East Coast will be mainly responsible for providing technical support and leadership in the creation of deliverable Wi-Fi and wireless technology solutions designed to meet a customer’s business needs. This person creates and maintains effective customer relationships to secure customer satisfaction. They will also provide the deepest level of product and technology specific expertise available to customers from anyone in the sales organization in deal pursuit situations. The Systems Engineer is also a subject matter expert in their area of specialization (i.e., Mobility, Security, Branch, etc.), responsible for consulting customers on end to end technical designs to meet their business need.

Contributions have substantial technical impact on a significant HPE product/project, or a strategic/architectural direction. Go-to creator and innovator for critical business challenges and opportunities. Substantial, unique contributions provide long-lasting, recurring benefits like time-to-market improvements, cost reductions, or satisfying future and current unmet customer needs. Recognized internal authority on key technology areas. Provides technical leadership to the business for significant project/program work. Leads and connects others across functions to unite around a common goal. Actively mentors others and contributes to the HPE technical community.

Territory Location: This person will need to live on the east coast to be able to travel frequently to customer sites. These jobs focus on selling to customers, typically through work that occurs outside HPE offices.

What you’ll do

• Lead technical discovery with venue operators, IT teams, facilities leaders, and business stakeholders to define coverage, capacity, reliability, security, and operational requirements.
• Develop wireless designs for seating bowls, concourses, suites, entry points, outdoor spaces, and event floors, accounting for changing crowd density and venue configurations.
• Perform or guide predictive modeling, site surveys, spectrum analysis, capacity planning, AP placement, antenna selection, and post-deployment validation.
• Design solutions that support guest access and critical venue services, including ticketing, point of sale, staff communications, media operations, and connected devices.
• Advise customers on Wi-Fi 6E and Wi-Fi 7, 6 GHz planning, roaming, interference management, and the wired infrastructure needed to support high-density wireless.
• Translate technical requirements into architectures, bills of materials, proposals, demonstrations, and proof-of-concept plans using the HPE Networking portfolio.
• Work with sales, product, services, and channel teams to resolve technical questions and strengthen solution proposals.
• Present designs and recommendations to technical teams and executive audiences, clearly explaining tradeoffs, expected outcomes, and implementation considerations.
• Support deployments and major events as a technical escalation resource, using performance data to identify improvements.

• Significant experience designing and deploying enterprise wireless networks, including direct experience with stadiums, arenas, convention centers, or similarly dense environments.
• Expert knowledge of RF (Radio Frequency) fundamentals, 802.11 standards, channel planning, client behavior, roaming, authentication, and wireless troubleshooting.
• Hands-on experience with predictive survey and validation tools, packet analysis, spectrum analysis, and wireless performance measurement.
• Strong understanding of campus switching, PoE, segmentation, network access control, and resilient network design.
• Experience developing technical proposals and influencing complex customer decisions in a presales, consulting, or solution architecture role.
• The ability to communicate with both network engineers and senior business leaders.
• Willingness to travel for customer workshops, site assessments, deployments, and event support., * Experience with HPE Aruba Networking wireless, switching, management, and security solutions.
• Experience with outdoor wireless, directional antennas, under-seat or other venue-specific deployment methods, and temporary event networks.
• Familiarity with private cellular, DAS, or the integration of Wi-Fi with other venue connectivity systems.
• Relevant wireless certifications, such as CWNP credentials, or comparable demonstrated expertise.

United States of America: Annual Salary USD 225,500 - 437,500 in Massachusetts // 198,000 - 465,500 in Delaware & Florida & Georgia & Maryland & North Carolina & Ohio & Pennsylvania This range reflects the minimum to maximum combined base and target-level sales compensation that would be paid if the hire performs at 100% of their sales plan. Of that on-target pay amount, the mix of base salary and target-level sales compensation is 75%/25%.”

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