Senior Deployment Engineer - 5G & Protocol Integration

Anite; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 135,000 - 225,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental and vision

Health Savings Account

401(k) Plan

Flexible Time Off

Paid Holidays

Paid Family Leave

Tuition Reimbursement

Adoption Assistance

ESPP (Employee Stock Purchase Plan)

Job summary

Keysight in San Diego seeks a Senior Forward Deployment Engineer to lead customer deployments, write production code, and troubleshoot complex protocol interactions within live development programs. You’ll collaborate with customer teams onsite, diagnose issues across L1–L3, and drive rapid prototyping and patches based on feedback.

The role requires strong C/C++ and Python skills, Linux experience, and the ability to communicate trade-offs clearly. Willingness to travel up to 50% is expected.

Qualifications

• Typically requires a Bachelor's or Master's degree and 6-7 years of relevant software/systems engineering experience.
• Proficiency in C/C++ and Python, 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.
• Ability to produce production-quality code that ships in a customer's build.
• Excellent communication skills; able to explain technical trade-offs to engineers and non-technical stakeholders.
• Willingness to relocate or travel to a specific customer site as required by the assignment.
• 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, serving 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

3GPP knowledge

Communication

Travel willingness

Independent work

Education

Bachelor's or Master's degree in a relevant field

Tools

Test instrumentation

Job description

Keysight in San Diego seeks a Senior Forward Deployment Engineer to lead customer deployments, write production code, and troubleshoot complex protocol interactions within live development programs. You’ll collaborate with customer teams onsite, diagnose issues across L1–L3, and drive rapid prototyping and patches based on feedback.

The role requires strong C/C++ and Python skills, Linux experience, and the ability to communicate trade-offs clearly. Willingness to travel up to 50% is expected.