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Forward Deployment Engineer - Senior

san diego, CA

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Anite lists this Forward Deployment Engineer - Senior opportunity in san diego, California. Review the employer’s description below for duties, qualifications and application requirements.

Job description

paid holidays, tuition reimbursement, flex time, 401(k)

Keysightis at the forefront of technology innovation, delivering breakthroughs and trusted insights in electronic design, simulation, prototyping, test, manufacturing, and optimization. Our ~16,800 employees create world-class solutions in communications, 5G, automotive, energy, quantum, aerospace, defense, and semiconductor markets for customers in over 100 countries. Learn moreabout what we do.

Our award-winningculture embraces a bold vision of where technology can take us and a passion for tackling challenging problems with industry-first solutions.We believe that when people feel a sense of belonging, they can be more creative, innovative, and thrive at all points in their careers.

Overview

Keysightis at the forefront of technology innovation, delivering breakthroughs and trusted insights in electronic design, simulation, prototyping, test, manufacturing, and optimization. Our ~16,800 employees create world-class solutions in communications, 5G, automotive, energy, quantum, aerospace, defense, and semiconductor markets for customers in over 100 countries. Learn moreabout what we do.

Our award-winningculture embraces a bold vision of where technology can take us and a passion for tackling challenging problems with industry-first solutions.We believe that when people feel a sense of belonging, they can be more creative, innovative, and thrive at all points in their careers.

Responsibilities

The Senior Forward Deployment Engineer works inside a customer's development program as software developer, systems engineer, and deployment lead in one role, and ships production code. This person determines and develops approaches to complex assignments, leads major deployment engagements using in-depth experience to influence outcomes, diagnoses problems deep within the protocol stack (Layer 1 to Layer 3), modifies software, validates fixes, and delivers controlled releases during a customer's early development, integration, and regression cycles.

This is a customer-facing software engineering role where you will embed directly within a customer environment to customize, integrate, and deploy technology into real-world production systems, leading complex, high-impact problem s .

Core responsibilities

Lead major or large-scale deployment engagements, coordinating across Keysight and customer engineering teams

Own technically complex deployment issues from first report to validated fix, and serve as the go-to technical resource for deployment issues within the account or program

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 across Keysight and customer implementations

Write and modify application and protocol-stack software, plus the supporting software and firmware the customer environment requires

Develop and extend Python APIs that customer teams integrate against

Build automation workflows inside the customer's workflows

Create diagnostic instrumentation when existing tools are insufficient

Develop, validate, and deploy controlled patches, feature flags, and interim releases under Keysight's release process

Run rapid prototyping loops directly with customers to test and iterate on new features based on live feedback

Act as a feedback loop to the core product and engineering teams, translating field problems into engineering requirements and defects for product management and R&D

Qualifications

Typically requires a Bachelor's or Master's degree (or equivalent) and 6-7 years of relevant software/systems engineering experience.

Strong software-development experience across multiple software stacks

Preferred expertise in at least one domain (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 system behavior

Proficiency in C/C++ and 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 the practical differences among standards compliance, interoperability, and implementation behavior

Experience in design and test instrumentation and test emulation tools

Ability to produce production-quality code that ships in a customer's build

The judgment and customer presence to operate inside confidential development programs

Excellent communication skills; able to explain technical trade-offs to both engineers and non-technical stakeholders

Willingness to relocate or travel to a specific customer site as required by the assignment

Extensive experience and breadth and depth of knowledge across multiple protocol layers and software stacks, with demonstrated ability to work independently

Demonstrated ability to lead technical discussions with customer

We are unable to support visa sponsorship for this position.

Careers Privacy Statement

Keysight Technologies Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability or any other protected categories under all applicable laws.

The level of role will be based on applicable experience, education and skills. Most offers will be between the minimum and the midpoint of the Salary Range listed below.

MIN $119,850.00 - MAX $215,740.00.

Note: For other locations, pay ranges will vary by region

US Employees may be eligible for the following benefits:

Medical, dental and vision

Health Savings Account

Health Care and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts

Life, Accident, Disability insurance

Business Travel Accident and Business Travel Health

401(k) Plan

Flexible Time Off, Paid Holidays

Paid Family Leave

Discounts, Perks

Tuition Reimbursement

Adoption Assistance

ESPP (Employee Stock Purchase Plan)

Restricted Stock Units

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Worksite address

san diego, CA, 92189, US

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