Wireless Protocol Integration Engineer
Keysight Technologies · Milano, Italy | Fleet, United Kingdom | Malaga, Spain | Bucharest, Romania · R&D
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Keysight is looking for a Wireless Protocol Integration Engineer to support the integration, validation, and system‑level adoption of 3GPP 5G and pre‑6G protocol features.
This role acts as a bridge between protocol R&D development and end‑to‑end system validation, working close to real implementations and evolving standards. The focus is on feature integration, test environments, and system‑level validation.
This position plays a key role in early 6G pre‑standard activities within a multi‑site international setup.
Responsibilities
- Work closely with R&D 3GPP Protocol Development teams to integrate 5G and pre‑6G features
- Support UE and base station emulation
- Contribute to pre‑6G standards, following 3GPP evolution
- Target, configure, and maintain host and test environments
- Collaborate with R&D software teams and cross‑functional experts (systems, RF, protocol, product, customers/partners) to align on feature implementation, reproduce field issues, debug complex behaviors, and validate fixes
- Design, build, and execute tests to validate protocol features using scripting languages
Qualifications
- Strong expertise in 3GPP LTE / NR protocols
- Linux OS knowledge
- Python scripting
- Strong communication skills and proactive attitude
- Experience working in a multi‑site environment
- Technical communication in English
- Experience with CI/CD, test frameworks, containers, and/or cloud‑based environments (preferred)
- Tools: Git, Valgrind/Polaris, JIRA, Wireshark (preferred)
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