Wireless Software Engineer – Forward Deployment- 5G/6G/NTN

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. 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.

Overview:

Keysight is a mission-critical design enablement partner for organizations solving the world’s most complex engineering challenges. With deep engineering expertise and leading design, emulation, and test solutions, our ~16,800 employees help customers in over 100 countries accelerate innovation across communications, automotive, energy, quantum, aerospace and defense, semiconductor, and artificial intelligence markets. Learn more about what we do.

 

At Keysight, people come together to explore new ideas, challenge what's possible, and advance the technologies defining the future. Here, you'll find opportunities to do your best work, take your career further, and thrive in an award-winning culture.Learn more about our benefits.

Responsibilities:

The Senior Forward Deployment Software 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 problems.

 

Core responsibilities

Qualifications:

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