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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\nForward Deployment Engineer - Expert - 5G/6G/NTN Responsibilities The Expert 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 reduces broad concepts and business strategies into structured deployment projects, acts as the key technical lead and go-to person for Department or Senior Management on the most complex, high-impact engagements, 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, solving complex, high-impact problems. Core responsibilities\nReduce broad account concepts and business strategies into structured, multi-workstream deployment projects\nAct as the key technical lead and go-to person for Department or Senior Management on the most complex or highest-impact deployment engagements\nArchitect and own solutions to problems that require a unique or highly specialized skill set\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\nIncorporate broadly applicable field-developed improvements into the core product\nMentor lower-level engineers and help develop the broader forward deployment engineering team Qualifications Typically requires a Bachelor's or Master's degree (or equivalent) and 8+ years of relevant software/systems engineering experience. Post-graduate study and/or relevant certification/license may be required.\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 • Familiarity 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\nSpecialized depth and/or breadth of expertise across multiple protocol layers, software stacks, and deployment domains\nDemonstrated technical leadership: ability to design solutions to unusually complex problems and set direction for other engineers 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\nExpert\n\nTypical Experience\n\n8+ years\n\n( Not overall Exp but relevant Exp)\n\nPrimary Role\n\nSolution architect / technical authority\n\nProblem Ownership\n\nArchitects solutions for unusually complex, high-impact problems\n\nTechnical Depth\n\nSpecialized depth and/or breadth across multiple protocol layers, stacks and deployment domains\n\nCustomer Engagement\n\nProvides senior technical leadership and acts as key technical authority\n\nLeadership\n\nSets technical direction and mentors lower-level engineers\n\nArchitecture / Solution Design\n\nConverts broad customer/business needs into structured deployment solutions/programs\n\nProduct Influence\n\nInfluences core product through reusable improvements identified from field deployments\n\nLeveling Summary\n\nArchitect it + Lead it + Influence the Product planning and Guide others\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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