Keysight

Forward Deployment Engineer – Expert

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Santa Clara, Cuba +3 moreSenior
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Base Salary

$132k - $255k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Lead complex, multi-workstream forward deployment projects inside customer development programs.
  • Architect and own solutions for highly specialized, high-impact technical problems.
  • Work onsite or closely with wireless customer development teams during major feature introductions.
  • Analyze signaling flows, traces, timing behavior, packet captures, and performance data to isolate failures across customer and Keysight implementations.
  • Write and modify application, protocol-stack, supporting software, and firmware code.
  • Develop Python APIs, customer workflow automation, and diagnostic instrumentation.
  • Develop, validate, and deploy controlled patches, feature flags, and interim releases.
  • Prototype rapidly with customers and incorporate field-developed improvements into the core product.
  • Translate field problems into engineering requirements and defects for product management and R&D.
  • Mentor lower-level engineers and help develop the forward deployment engineering team.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's or master's degree, or equivalent, with 8+ years of relevant software or systems engineering experience.
  • Strong software development experience across multiple software stacks.
  • Expertise in at least one wireless domain such as PHY/L1, MAC/RLC/PDCP and L2, or RRC/NAS and L3, with working knowledge of adjacent layers and 4G, 5G, and 5G-Advanced system behavior.
  • Proficiency in C/C++, Python including API development, Linux, embedded or real-time software, and automated testing.
  • Experience debugging protocol interactions through logs, traces, packet captures, call flows, and timing analysis.
  • Familiarity with 3GPP specifications and the differences among 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 a customer's build.
  • Ability to operate with sound judgment and customer presence inside confidential development programs.
  • Strong communication skills for explaining technical trade-offs to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
  • Demonstrated technical leadership in designing solutions to unusually complex problems and setting direction for other engineers.
  • Post-graduate study and/or relevant certification or license may be required.
  • Willingness to relocate or travel to a specific customer site as required.

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
  • Health Savings Account and health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts.
  • Life, accident, disability, business travel accident, and business travel health insurance.
  • 401(k) plan, Flexible Time Off, and paid holidays.
  • Paid family leave, discounts, perks, tuition reimbursement, and adoption assistance.
  • Employee Stock Purchase Plan and Restricted Stock Units.
  • The role may require onsite customer work, relocation, or travel 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.

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