Keysight

Forward Deployment Engineer – Senior - 5G/6G/NTN

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San Diego, CA, USASenior
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Base Salary

$142k - $237k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Lead major or large-scale customer deployment engagements and coordinate across Keysight and customer engineering teams.
  • Own technically complex deployment issues through diagnosis, validated fixes, and controlled releases.
  • Analyze signaling flows, logs, traces, timing behavior, packet captures, call flows, and performance data across wireless protocol layers.
  • Write and modify application, protocol-stack, supporting software, and firmware for customer environments.
  • Develop Python APIs, workflow automation, diagnostic instrumentation, patches, feature flags, and interim releases.
  • Prototype and iterate on new features with customers and translate field issues into engineering requirements and defects for product and R&D teams.
  • Work onsite or closely with wireless customer development teams during major feature introductions.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s or master’s degree in a relevant area, or equivalent, and 6–7 years of relevant software or systems engineering experience.
  • Strong software-development experience across multiple software stacks, with production-quality code that ships in customer builds.
  • Proficiency in C/C++, Python including API development, Linux, embedded or real-time software, and automated testing.
  • Expertise in at least one wireless domain—PHY/L1, MAC/RLC/PDCP and L2, or RRC/NAS and L3—and working knowledge of adjacent layers and end-to-end 4G, 5G, and 5G-Advanced behavior.
  • Experience debugging protocol interactions using logs, traces, packet captures, call flows, and timing analysis.
  • Familiarity with 3GPP specifications, standards compliance, interoperability, implementation behavior, and design and test instrumentation or emulation tools.
  • Ability to lead technical discussions, work independently in confidential development programs, and communicate technical trade-offs to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
  • Willingness to relocate or travel to customer sites as required.

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance; 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 and perks, tuition reimbursement, adoption assistance, and Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
  • Onsite role in San Diego, California, with relocation available; up to 50% local client-site travel and occasional international travel.

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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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