Systems Engineer (Solution Engineer, NAS) - US-CA-Santa Clara-Bldg 4-Keysi, United States

Originally posted 16 September 2026 by the employer.

The role involves delivering technical solutions across Keysight's Network and Application/Security (NAS) test portfolio.

About the role

This role is for a Systems Engineer (Solution Engineer) contributing to the sales organization by designing and delivering advanced technical solutions across Keysight's Network and Application/Security (NAS) test portfolio. This includes supporting complex technologies for AI/ML data center networking, validating AI/ML back-end network fabrics, and leveraging Python automation.

What you'll do

• Provide specialized technical guidance and build advanced technical solutions for Keysight's product and service portfolio, including IxNetwork and AI data center test solutions.
• Support design and consultation sessions with prospective clients, demonstrating protocol expertise and driving solution discussions.
• Deliver sales presentations, product installations, and maintenance, ensuring smooth product integration into customer systems.
• Integrate Keysight products and services at the system level into the customer's environment and ensure interoperability.
• Support customers in validating AI/ML back-end network fabrics, including RoCEv2/RDMA performance, lossless Ethernet behavior (PFC, ECN, DCQCN), and congestion control for large-scale GPU cluster training and inference workloads.
• Leverage Python automation for improved efficiency and rapid prototyping, with a solid understanding of QA automation frameworks.

What you'll need

• U.S. Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Engineering.
• 5+ years in customer-facing engineering roles.
• Strong proficiency with IEEE 802.3 Ethernet and TCP/IP internetworking.
• Working experience with modern data center and backbone architectures and protocols: CLOS, Leaf/Spine, VxLAN, EVPN, BGP, OSPF, MPLS, Segment Routing.
• Solid Python automation/scripting experience with REST APIs.
• Hands-on experience with traffic generation / network test equipment.

Nice to have

• Network certification such as CCNP, CCIE, Juniper JNCIP/JNCIE, or Arista.
• Working experience with Ixia test products.
• Experience with virtualization stacks (KVM/Open vSwitch, VMware/NSX) and containerization (Docker, K8s).
• Working knowledge of public clouds (AWS, GCP).
• Working knowledge of AI/ML data center networking, including RoCEv2/RDMA, lossless Ethernet, and congestion control mechanisms (PFC/ECN/DCQCN); familiarity with GPU cluster fabrics, rail-optimized CLOS designs, and AI workload traffic patterns (e.g., collective communication such as NCCL).
• Exposure to AI network test/validation solutions such as Keysight KAI Data Center Builder, and awareness of Ultra Ethernet (UEC) and InfiniBand as fabric alternatives.

Skills: customer-facing, pre-sales, networking protocols, data center, Python automation, traffic generation