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As a V&V Engineer, you will be part of an R&D team and launch breakthrough software solutions to market. This hybrid role combines the expertise of Quality Assurance and Embedded Software Engineering to ensure the stability, performance, and quality of our products. The ideal candidate will have a solid background in software engineering, coupled with experience in software verification, incident management and embedded software development. We are seeking a proactive problem-solver who can enhance our processes and maintain reliable systems.\nYou will collaborate across a multidisciplinary engineering environment-including physicists, firmware engineers, frontend and backend developers-to implement intuitive user interfaces, data workflows, and backend services that power Keysight’s quantum control platform. 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