Principal Systems Engineer

🔥 12 hours ago

🏄 California – Remote

🏄 California – Remote

💵 $220k - $300k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

⚙️ Systems Engineer

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Belden Inc.

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5001 - 10000 employees

Founded 1902

💼 Consulting

📦 Logistics

🏥 Healthcare

Consulting • Logistics • Healthcare

Belden Inc. is a global leader in cable, connectivity, and networking solutions, now transitioning into a digital solutions innovator. The company is focused on driving innovation and growth by offering customized solutions to meet the complex needs of its customers. Belden emphasizes a commitment to employee development and diversity, making it a compelling place for top talent to build their careers as the company evolves.

📋 Description

• Partner with sales teams, channel partners, and strategic customers to drive complex opportunities from discovery through design, validation, competitive positioning, and closure • Lead high-value vertical and enterprise opportunities through disciplined tracking, executive engagement, technical differentiation, and revenue contribution • Provide advanced pre-sales support through solution architecture, network design, proof-of-concept execution, technical demonstrations, and customer-facing business-value positioning • Serve as a subject matter expert for the RUCKUS wireless, wired, software, cloud, controller, and edge-networking portfolio • Focus on RUCKUS One adoption, product maturity, migrations, and customer success • Lead field validation of emerging platforms, environments, large-scale deployments, and migration programs • Translate customer and field requirements into product feedback, feature requests, defect reports, technical guidance, and quality improvements • Partner with PLM, Engineering, QA, TAC, TME, and field teams to resolve field-discovered issues and improve feature readiness • Build organizational capability through reusable labs, demo programs, onboarding support, mentoring, and scalable enablement content • Support technical alliance initiatives through solution guides, interoperability validation, and feature-maturity collaboration with third-party ecosystem partners • Provide field leadership through PRD/HLD reviews, interlocks, prioritization, summary materials, and follow-up deliverables

🎯 Requirements

• Advanced understanding of pre-sales engineering, enterprise account strategy, partner engagement, and complex, high-value opportunities • Ability to present technical solutions, competitive positioning, and business value to executive, technical, partner, and internal audiences • Ability to translate customer business drivers into network architectures, migration plans, product requirements, and scalable field guidance • Strong technical knowledge of 802.11 a/g/n/ac/ax/be wireless design, RF engineering, troubleshooting, optimization, IP routing and switching, WAN/LAN design, security authentication, RADIUS/AAA, virtualization, and cloud environments • Working knowledge of automation, AI/ML-adjacent technologies, GitHub-based collaboration, scripting, and operational tooling • Experience influencing product quality and roadmap outcomes through bug reporting, feature requests, customer-impact analysis, and cross-functional engagement • Experience creating hands-on labs, advanced training, webinars, technical guides, migration playbooks, demo scripts, and repeatable solution documentation • Bachelor’s Degree and 10+ years of relevant experience in IP networking, wireless technologies, pre-sales engineering, solution architecture, product enablement, or equivalent technical field leadership experience • Demonstrated success supporting major customer opportunities, pipeline tracking, executive engagement, and revenue contribution across strategic vertical markets • Ability to troubleshoot complex customer, partner, and product issues, including escalation analysis, defect documentation, reproduction support, and impact mitigation • Effective technical presentation and enablement skills, including demos, conferences, field training, webinars, partner enablement, and executive briefings • Strong documentation skills, including solution guides, summary decks, product feedback, and field best practices • Ability to travel up to 40% of the time depending on business needs • Preferred: experience supporting MDU, hospitality, education, public sector, service provider, enterprise, manufacturing, warehousing, or logistics environments • Preferred: knowledge of OT environments in manufacturing and hospitality • Preferred: hands-on experience with RUCKUS One, SmartZone-to-RUCKUS One migrations, cloud-managed networking, product readiness, customer adoption, and field-led maturity efforts • Preferred: experience validating emerging architectures, including large-scale AP deployments, edge networking, cloud-managed services, and migrations • Preferred: experience with technical alliance partners and ecosystem tools for wireless design, simulation, security integration, network planning, and operational validation • Preferred: automation assets, scripts, repositories, and operational tools experience • Preferred: CWNP or other network certifications

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision plans • Life and accidental death insurance • 401(k) plan • Participation in the Company’s Incentive Plan • Eleven paid holidays in a full calendar year • Two weeks of paid vacation, prorated based on start date • Other leave options