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You will also serve as the senior technical escalation point, driving complex issues to closure alongside our T2 and LIFT teams.\nIf you have lived through real DOCSIS deployments, designing them, turning them up, and troubleshooting them under pressure we'd love to hear from you.\nYou will report toGlobal Leader, Field Application Engineering.\nLocation\nHybrid role - with periodic onsite work at Denver, Co, USA\nWhat you will be doing:\nTechnical Solution Leadership\nLead network design and dimensioning for DOCSIS builds and upgrades - service group sizing, spectrum\nplanning and mid/high-split migration, OFDM/OFDMA profile design, capacity modeling, node-split planning.\nDesign and execute lab qualification, interoperability, field trial and proof-of-concept programs, including formal test plans, acceptance criteria and results reporting.\nTranslate operator requirements into product requirements, working directly with Product Management and R&D to shape the roadmap based on field reality.\nDeployment, Turn-Up and Operations\nDrive escalated troubleshooting and root cause analysis on live networks, coordinating across customer NOC teams, the T2 and LIFT teams, Harmonic Support and R&D engineering.\nAnalyze protocol traces, system logs, RF measurements and telemetry to isolate faults across the HFC and optical plant, access layer, transport, provisioning and subscriber management domains.\nWhat you should have:\n10+ years of experience in broadband access, service provider network, or telecom systems engineering, with significant time in a customer-facing field or solutions engineering capacity. \nDeep, hands-on DOCSIS expertise. \nDistributed access architecture experience - Remote PHY deployment including RPD provisioning, GCP, DEPI/UEPI, PTP/1588 timing, and CIN design. \nSolid PON knowledge - practical experience with XGS-PON and/or GPON, including OLT/ONT operation, OMCI, DBA, T-CONT/GEM mapping, optical power budgets, and PON troubleshooting. \nStrong IP networking foundation\nKubernetes and cloud-native experience\nLinux proficiency \nExcellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to engage both operator engineers and VP-level stakeholders. \nBachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Telecommunications, or equivalent experience. \nTravel\nYou are required to travel about 20% percent of the time.\nPay & Benefits -\nFor this role, the estimated base salary range is between $150,000 - $170,000. 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