Senior Forward Deployment Engineer — Lead Deployments

Keysight Technologies; Stockholms kommun; On-site; SEK 900,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Keysight Technologies is seeking a Senior Forward Deployment Engineer to join our customer-focused software engineering team in Sweden. The role blends software development, systems engineering, and deployment leadership inside a customer development program, shipping production code within live projects.

You will diagnose complex issues across protocol stacks, develop and customize software for real-world production systems, and drive controlled releases in collaboration with customer teams.

Qualifications

• 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.
• Proficiency in C/C++ and Python (including API development), Linux, embedded or real-time software, and automated testing.

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

Skills

C/C++

Python

Linux

Embedded software

Automated testing

Protocol analysis

Communication

Troubleshooting

Education

Bachelor's or Master's degree

Job description

Keysight Technologies is seeking a Senior Forward Deployment Engineer to join our customer-focused software engineering team in Sweden. The role blends software development, systems engineering, and deployment leadership inside a customer development program, shipping production code within live projects.

You will diagnose complex issues across protocol stacks, develop and customize software for real-world production systems, and drive controlled releases in collaboration with customer teams.