Keysight

Forward Deployment Engineer – Senior

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Santa Clara, Cuba +2 moreSenior

Base Salary

$120k - $216k/yr

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 with customer development teams to analyze signaling flows, traces, timing behavior, and performance data across protocol layers.
  • Write and modify application, protocol-stack, supporting software, and firmware required by customer environments.
  • Develop Python APIs, workflow automation, diagnostic instrumentation, patches, feature flags, and interim releases.
  • Prototype and iterate on features with customers and translate field issues into engineering requirements and product defects.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's or master's degree, or equivalent, with 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 such as PHY/L1, MAC/RLC/PDCP and L2, or RRC/NAS and L3, with 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 test instrumentation or emulation tools.
  • Ability to lead technical discussions, communicate trade-offs to technical and non-technical stakeholders, work independently, and operate in confidential customer programs.
  • Willingness to relocate or travel to a specific customer site as required.

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision coverage; health savings and 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, employee stock purchase plan, and restricted stock units.
  • The role may require onsite work, relocation, or travel to a customer site.
  • Salary range is $119,850.00–$215,740.00, varying by location.

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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