Senior Forward Deployment Engineer - 5G/6G & NTN

Keysight Technologies; Calabasas (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental and vision

Health Savings Account

401(k) Plan

Flexible Time Off

Paid Holidays

Tuition Reimbursement

Adoption Assistance

Stock Purchase Plan

Job summary

Keysight Technologies is seeking an Expert Forward Deployment Engineer in Calabasas, CA to blend software development, systems engineering, and deployment leadership within a customer development program.

You will embed in customer environments to customize, integrate, and deploy technology into production systems, solving high-impact problems and mentoring others. Requires 8+ years in relevant roles and strong C/C++ and Python skills.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree (or equivalent) and 8+ years of software/systems engineering experience.

Responsibilities

• Reduce broad concepts into structured deployment projects across multiple workstreams.
• Lead and coordinate with department or senior management on complex deployments.
• Architect and own solutions requiring specialized skills.
• Work onsite with customer development teams during feature introduces.
• Analyze signaling flows, traces, timing, and performance data to isolate failures.
• Write/modify application and protocol-stack software and firmware for the customer's environment.
• Develop Python APIs and build automation within customer workflows.
• Mentor junior engineers and help grow the forward deployment team.
• Translate field problems into engineering requirements and defects for product teams.

Skills

Software development

PHY/L1 domain

C/C++

Python

Linux

Embedded software

Automated testing

Protocol debugging

3GPP specs

Test instrumentation

Production-quality code

Customer-facing

Communication skills

Travel readiness

Technical leadership

Education

Bachelor's or Master's degree

Job description

Keysight Technologies is seeking an Expert Forward Deployment Engineer in Calabasas, CA to blend software development, systems engineering, and deployment leadership within a customer development program.

You will embed in customer environments to customize, integrate, and deploy technology into production systems, solving high-impact problems and mentoring others. Requires 8+ years in relevant roles and strong C/C++ and Python skills.