Keysight

Forward Deployment Engineer

Keysight
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2 months ago
Aschheim, Germany or Remote, GermanyMid Level / Senior

Responsibilities

  • Own technically complex customer deployment issues from initial report through diagnosis, validated fix, and controlled release.
  • Work onsite or closely with wireless customer development teams during major feature introductions.
  • Analyze signaling flows, traces, timing behavior, packet captures, call flows, and performance data across protocol layers.
  • Write and modify application, protocol-stack, supporting software, and firmware for customer environments.
  • Develop Python APIs, automation workflows, diagnostic instrumentation, patches, feature flags, and interim releases.
  • Prototype and iterate on features with customers based on 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, and 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 such as 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 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.
  • Customer presence, judgment, and communication skills for working in confidential development programs and explaining technical trade-offs to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
  • Willingness to relocate or travel to a specific customer site as required.

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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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