Deployment Engineer 5G/6G/NTN

Job Title: Deployment Engineer 5G/6G/NTN

Location: Redmond, WA | San Diego, CA (Onsite- 5 days a week)

Hire Type: Full-time and Contract (Long-term)

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

Qualifications: Typically requires a Bachelor's or Master's degree (or equivalent) and 4-5 years of relevant software/systems engineering experience.

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

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 independently 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, independently 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 client 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 Customer’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.

• 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