Senior Forward Deployment Engineer & Technical Lead

Anite; Stockholms kommun; On-site; SEK 1,100,000 - 1,700,000; Full time

Job summary

Keysight is seeking an Expert Forward Deployment Engineer to join customer development programs, serving as software developer, systems engineer, and deployment lead in one role. You will ship production code and translate complex concepts into structured deployment projects, acting as the technical lead for high-impact engagements.

You will embed within customer environments to customize, integrate, and deploy technology, drive automation, and support production deployments across PHY/L1 to L3

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in a relevant field and 8+ years of software/systems engineering experience.
• Strong C/C++ and Python, Linux, and embedded or real-time software experience.
• Experience in debugging protocol interactions and 3GPP specifications.
• Ability to lead complex deployments and mentor engineers.
• Willingness to travel or relocate to customer sites.

Responsibilities

• Reduce broad account concepts and business strategies into structured, multi-workstream deployment projects.
• Act as the key technical lead and go-to person for Department or Senior Management on the most complex or highest-impact deployment engagements.
• Architect and own solutions to problems that require a unique or highly specialized skill set.
• 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.
• Incorporate broadly applicable field-developed improvements into the core product.
• Mentor lower-level engineers and help develop the broader forward deployment engineering team.

Skills

Software development

C/C++

Python

Linux

Embedded/RTOS

Automated testing

Debugging protocols

3GPP specs

Test instrumentation

Production-ready code

Communication

Travel availability

Technical leadership

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree

Tools

Python APIs

Job description

Keysight is seeking an Expert Forward Deployment Engineer to join customer development programs, serving as software developer, systems engineer, and deployment lead in one role. You will ship production code and translate complex concepts into structured deployment projects, acting as the technical lead for high-impact engagements.

You will embed within customer environments to customize, integrate, and deploy technology, drive automation, and support production deployments across PHY/L1 to L3