Keysight

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

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Calabasas, CA, USASenior

Base Salary

$150k - $250k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Lead multi-workstream deployment projects inside customer development programs.
  • Serve as the technical lead for complex, high-impact customer engagements.
  • Architect and own solutions requiring specialized software and systems expertise.
  • Work onsite or closely with wireless customer development teams during major feature introductions.
  • Analyze signaling flows, traces, timing behavior, and performance data to isolate failures.
  • Write and modify application, protocol-stack, supporting software, and firmware.
  • Develop Python APIs and customer workflow automation.
  • Create diagnostic instrumentation, validate fixes, and deploy controlled patches, feature flags, and interim releases.
  • Prototype new features with customers and relay field problems to product management and R&D.
  • Incorporate broadly applicable field improvements into the core product.
  • Mentor lower-level engineers and help develop the forward deployment engineering team.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's or master's degree or equivalent, with typically 8+ 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; plus 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 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 and judgment to operate within confidential development programs.
  • Strong communication skills for explaining technical trade-offs to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
  • Ability to relocate or travel to customer sites as required, including up to 50% local travel and occasional international travel.
  • Specialized depth or breadth across protocol layers, software stacks, and deployment domains, with demonstrated technical leadership.

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 and perks, tuition reimbursement, adoption assistance, Employee Stock Purchase Plan, and Restricted Stock Units.
  • Onsite position in Calabasas, California, with relocation available and up to 50% local travel; occasional international travel may be required.

Tech Stack

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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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