Deployment Engineer 5G/6G/NTN

Job Title

Deployment Engineer 5G/6G/NTN-245053

Location

Redmond WA & San Diego CA

Day 1 Onsite at customer location

Salary-$90k with benefits.

Experience (Years)

4+ Years

Job Title

Lead Deployment Engineer 5G/6G/NTN- 245056

Location

Austin TX, Cupertino CA & San Diego CA

Onsite/ Remote

Day 1 Onsite at customer location

Salary-$105k with benefits.

Experience (Years)

6+ Years

Job Title

Technical Architect Deployment Engineer 5G/6G/NTN- 245057

Location

Austin, Northridge Los Angeles, San Diego, Cupertino

Day 1 Onsite at customer location

Salary-$135k with benefits.

Skills

5G/5G-Advanced | L1/L2/L3 protocol expertise| C/C++, Python | Linux | 3GPP | Trace/Log debugging | Production software development | Automation/Test instrumentation | Customer-facing deployment

Key Responsibilities

The Advanced Forward Deployment Engineer works inside a customer's development program as software developer, systems engineer, and deployment lead in one role, and ships production code.

This person Consultantly determines and develops the approach to assigned deployment problems, diagnosing issues deep within the protocol stack (Layer 1 to Layer 3), modifying software, validating fixes, and delivering controlled releases during a customer's early development, integration, and regression cycles.

This is a customer-facing software engineering role where you will embed directly within a customer environment to customize, integrate, and deploy technology into real-world production systems.

Core responsibilities

• Own technically complex deployment issues from first report to validated fix, Consultantly determining and developing your own approach
• 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

Qualifications Typically requires a

Bachelor's or Master's degree (or equivalent) and 4+ years of relevant software/systems engineering experience.

• Strong software-development experience across multiple software stacks
• Preferred expertise in at least one domain (PHY/L1, MAC/RLC/PDCP and L2, or RRC/NAS and L3), plus working knowledge of adjacent layers and end-to-end 4G, 5G, and 5G-Advanced system behavior
• 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

Travel Requirement

Up to 50% travel to local client sites. Occasional international travel may also be required.

Evaluation Area

Expert

Technical Depth

Specialized depth and/or breadth across multiple protocol layers, stacks and deployment domains

Customer Engagement

Provides senior technical leadership and acts as key technical authority

Leadership

Sets technical direction and mentors lower-level engineers

Architecture / Solution Design

Converts broad customer/business needs into structured deployment solutions/programs

Product Influence

Influences core product through reusable improvements identified from field deployments

Leveling Summary

Architect it + Lead it + Influence the Product planning and Guide others