Senior 5G/6G Deployment Engineer — On-Site, 50% Travel

Keysight Technologies; California; On-site; USD 148,000 - 247,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental and vision

401(k) Plan

Flexible Time Off

Relocation assistance

Job summary

Keysight Technologies in Santa Clara, CA seeks a Senior Forward Deployment Engineer to join customer-focused software deployments. You will embed with customer teams, lead complex engagements, and deliver production-quality code with strong protocol and software stack expertise.

Travel up to 50% will be required, including onsite work at client sites. The role demands deep understanding of PHY/L1 to L3 protocol behavior, robust debugging skills, and the ability to communicate trade-offs clearly

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.
• 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.

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 RTOS

Automated testing

Protocol debugging

Leadership

Customer comms

Education

Bachelor's or Master's degree

Tools

APIs development

Test instrumentation

Job description

Keysight Technologies in Santa Clara, CA seeks a Senior Forward Deployment Engineer to join customer-focused software deployments. You will embed with customer teams, lead complex engagements, and deliver production-quality code with strong protocol and software stack expertise.

Travel up to 50% will be required, including onsite work at client sites. The role demands deep understanding of PHY/L1 to L3 protocol behavior, robust debugging skills, and the ability to communicate trade-offs clearly