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