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Tech Mahindra also offers benefits like medical, vision, dental, life, disability insurance and paid time off (including holidays, parental leave, and sick leave, as required by law). Ask our recruiters for more details on our Benefits package. The exact offer terms will depend on the skill level, educational qualifications, experience, and location of the candidate.\nKey Responsibilities\nThe Senior 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 determines and develops approaches to complex assignments, leads major deployment engagements using in-depth experience to influence outcomes, diagnoses problems deep within the protocol stack (Layer 1 to Layer 3), modifies software, validates fixes, and delivers 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, leading complex, high-impact problems. Core responsibilities\nLead major or large-scale deployment engagements, coordinating across Keysight and customer engineering teams\nOwn technically complex deployment issues from first report to validated fix, and serve as the go-to technical resource for deployment issues within the account or program\nWork onsite or closely with wireless customer development teams during major feature introductions\nAnalyze signaling flows, traces, timing behavior, and performance data to isolate failures across Keysight and customer implementations\nWrite and modify application and protocol-stack software, plus the supporting software and firmware the customer environment requires\nDevelop and extend Python APIs that customer teams integrate against\nBuild automation workflows inside the customer's workflows\nCreate diagnostic instrumentation when existing tools are insufficient\nDevelop, validate, and deploy controlled patches, feature flags, and interim releases under Keysight's release process\nRun rapid prototyping loops directly with customers to test and iterate on new features based on live feedback\nAct 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 Qualifications Typically requires a Bachelor's or Master's degree (or equivalent) and 6-7 years of relevant software/systems engineering experience.\nStrong software-development experience across multiple software stacks\nPreferred 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\nProficiency in C/C++ and Python (including API development), Linux, embedded or real-time software, and automated testing\nExperience debugging protocol interactions through logs, traces, packet captures, call flows, and timing analysis\nFamiliarity with 3GPP specifications and the practical differences among standards compliance, interoperability, and implementation behavior\nExperience in design and test instrumentation and test emulation tools\nAbility to produce production-quality code that ships in a customer's build\nThe judgment and customer presence to operate inside confidential development programs\nExcellent communication skills; able to explain technical trade-offs to both engineers and non-technical stakeholders\nWillingness to relocate or travel to a specific customer site as required by the assignment\nExtensive experience and breadth and depth of knowledge across multiple protocol layers and software stacks, with demonstrated ability to work independently\nDemonstrated ability to lead technical discussions with customer Travel Requirement: Up to 50% travel to local client sites. Occasional international travel may also be required.\nSkills : | 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\n\nEvaluation Area\n\nSenior\n\nTypical Experience\n\n6-7 years\n\n( Not overall Exp but relevant Exp)\n\nPrimary Role\n\nTechnical lead for major deployments\n\nProblem Ownership\n\nOwns complex issues and leads major/large-scale deployment engagements\n\nTechnical Depth\n\nExtensive breadth/depth across multiple protocol layers and software stacks\n\nCustomer Engagement\n\nLeads technical discussions and becomes a go-to resource for the customer/account\n\nLeadership\n\nCoordinates customer and engineering teams during deployments\n\nArchitecture / Solution Design\n\nDetermines approaches for complex assignments\n\nProduct Influence\n\nDrives feedback from major deployments into Product/R&D\n\nLeveling Summary\n\nSolve it + Lead development & solve deployment issues\n\n“Tech Mahindra is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We promote and support a diverse workforce at all levels of the company. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, sex, age, national origin or disability. All applicants will be evaluated solely on the basis of their ability, competence, and performance of the essential functions of their positions with or without reasonable accommodations. Reasonable accommodations also are available in the hiring process for applicants with disabilities. 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