Keysight

Forward Deployment Engineer – Expert

Keysight
Apply
16 days ago
Remote, Sweden or Stockholm, SwedenStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Lead complex, multi-workstream customer deployment engagements and act as the primary technical lead for high-impact programs.
  • Embed with wireless customer development teams during major feature introductions and translate business strategies into deployment projects.
  • Analyze signaling flows, traces, timing behavior, logs, packet captures, call flows, and performance data to isolate failures across protocol layers.
  • Write and modify application, protocol-stack, supporting software, and firmware; develop Python APIs for customer integration.
  • Build workflow automation and diagnostic instrumentation, and develop, validate, and deploy controlled patches, feature flags, and interim releases.
  • Run rapid customer prototyping cycles and incorporate broadly applicable field improvements into the core product.
  • Translate field issues into engineering requirements and defects for product management and R&D.
  • Mentor lower-level engineers and help guide the forward deployment engineering team.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's or master's degree or equivalent, with typically 8+ years of relevant software or systems engineering experience.
  • Strong software-development experience across multiple software stacks and the ability to produce production-quality code shipped in customer builds.
  • Expertise in at least one of PHY/L1, MAC/RLC/PDCP and L2, or RRC/NAS and L3, plus 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.
  • Demonstrated technical leadership in designing solutions to unusually complex problems and setting direction for other engineers.
  • Excellent communication skills and the ability to explain technical trade-offs to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
  • Ability to operate within confidential development programs and willingness to relocate or travel to a customer site as required.

Benefits

  • The role may require relocation or travel to a specific customer site depending on the assignment.

Tech Stack

Categories

Forward Deployed
Keysight

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.

Contact me