Keysight

Forward Deployment Engineer – Expert

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Responsibilities

  • Convert broad account concepts and business strategies into structured, multi-workstream deployment projects.
  • Serve as the technical lead for complex, high-impact customer engagements.
  • Architect and own solutions to highly specialized technical problems.
  • Embed with wireless customer development teams onsite or closely during major feature introductions.
  • Analyze signaling flows, traces, timing behavior, and performance data to isolate failures.
  • Write and modify application, protocol-stack, supporting software, and firmware.
  • Develop and extend Python APIs for customer integration.
  • Build workflow automation and diagnostic instrumentation.
  • Develop, validate, and deploy controlled patches, feature flags, and interim releases.
  • Run rapid prototyping cycles with customers and incorporate feedback into new features.
  • Translate field problems into engineering requirements and product defects.
  • Contribute field-developed improvements to the core product.
  • Mentor lower-level engineers and help develop the forward deployment engineering team.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's or master's degree, or equivalent, is typically required.
  • At least 8 years of relevant software or systems engineering experience is required.
  • Strong software-development experience across multiple software stacks.
  • Expertise in at least one wireless protocol domain: PHY/L1, MAC/RLC/PDCP and L2, or RRC/NAS and L3, with working knowledge of adjacent layers and end-to-end 4G, 5G, and 5G-Advanced behavior.
  • Proficiency in C/C++, Python including API development, Linux, embedded or real-time software, and automated testing.
  • Experience debugging protocol interactions using logs, traces, packet captures, call flows, and timing analysis.
  • Familiarity with 3GPP specifications and standards compliance, interoperability, and implementation behavior.
  • Experience with design and test instrumentation and test emulation tools.
  • Ability to produce production-quality code that ships in customer builds.
  • Ability to operate with sound judgment and customer presence in confidential development programs.
  • Excellent communication skills with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
  • Demonstrated technical leadership and ability to direct engineers through unusually complex problems.
  • Post-graduate study and/or relevant certification or license may be required.
  • Willingness to relocate or travel to a customer site as required.

Tech Stack

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Forward Deployed
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About Keysight

10,000+ employees

Keysight Technologies builds electronic test and measurement instruments and software used for design, validation, and manufacturing by engineers in communications, semiconductor, aerospace and defense, automotive, and data center markets. Its portfolio includes oscilloscopes, signal and network analyzers, RF/microwave test systems, and EDA and network test software, sold with services and support. Founded in 2014 as a spin-off from Agilent Technologies, Keysight is a public company (NYSE: KEYS) headquartered in Santa Rosa, California.

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