Keysight

Forward Deployment Engineer – Senior

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Remote, EMEA or Oulu, FinlandSenior

Responsibilities

  • Lead major or large-scale deployment engagements across Keysight and customer engineering teams.
  • Own complex deployment issues from initial report through diagnosis, validated fixes, and controlled releases.
  • Work onsite or closely with wireless customer development teams during major feature introductions.
  • Analyze signaling flows, traces, timing behavior, performance data, logs, packet captures, call flows, and protocol interactions.
  • Write and modify application, protocol-stack, supporting software, and firmware.
  • Develop Python APIs and customer-integrated automation workflows.
  • Create diagnostic instrumentation when existing tools are insufficient.
  • Develop, validate, and deploy patches, feature flags, and interim releases under the release process.
  • Prototype rapidly with customers and translate field problems into engineering requirements and product defects.
  • Lead technical discussions and explain trade-offs to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s or master’s degree, or equivalent, typically with 6–7 years of relevant software or systems engineering experience.
  • Strong software-development experience across multiple software stacks and the ability to produce production-quality code.
  • 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 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 differences among standards compliance, interoperability, and implementation behavior.
  • Experience with design and test instrumentation and test emulation tools.
  • Extensive breadth and depth across multiple protocol layers and software stacks, with demonstrated independent execution and technical leadership.
  • Strong communication skills and the judgment and customer presence to work within confidential development programs.
  • Willingness to relocate or travel to a customer site as required.

Benefits

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

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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