Keysight

Forward Deployment Engineer - Advanced

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San Diego, CA, USAMid Level / Senior

Base Salary

$120k - $199k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Own complex customer deployment issues from first report through validated fix.
  • Work onsite or closely with wireless customer development teams during major feature introductions.
  • Analyze signaling flows, logs, traces, timing behavior, packet captures, call flows, and performance data to isolate failures.
  • Write and modify application, protocol-stack, firmware, and supporting software.
  • Develop Python APIs, customer workflow automation, and diagnostic instrumentation.
  • Develop, validate, and deploy controlled patches, feature flags, and interim releases.
  • Prototype and iterate on features directly with customers using live feedback.
  • Translate field problems into engineering requirements and defects for product management and R&D.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's or master's degree, or equivalent, typically with 4–5 years of relevant software or systems engineering experience.
  • Strong software-development experience across multiple software stacks.
  • Expertise in at least one wireless domain—PHY/L1, MAC/RLC/PDCP and L2, or RRC/NAS and L3—with working knowledge of adjacent layers and 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 through 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 a customer's build and operate in confidential development programs.
  • Strong communication skills and willingness to relocate or travel to a required customer site.

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, paid holidays, and paid family leave.
  • Discounts, perks, tuition reimbursement, adoption assistance, and Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
  • The role may require onsite customer work, relocation, or travel; pay ranges vary by region outside California.

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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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