Jobs → Engineering → Lead Deployment Engineer 5G/6G/NTN

About the Role We are seeking a Lead Deployment Engineer specializing in 5G/6G/NTN technologies to join our team. This role combines software development, systems engineering, and deployment leadership, working directly within customer environments to customize, integrate, and deploy technology into production systems. Key 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 • 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 • Write and modify application and protocol-stack software, plus supporting software and firmware • 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 • Run rapid prototyping loops directly with customers to test and iterate on new features • Act as a feedback loop to the core product and engineering teams, translating field problems into engineering requirements Requirements • 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 • Expertise in 5G/5G-Advanced technologies and L1/L2/L3 protocols • Proficiency in C/C++ and Python • Experience with Linux, 3GPP, and trace/log debugging • Production software development and automation/test instrumentation skills • Customer-facing deployment experience