Lead Product Development Engineer

This position requires office presence of a minimum of 5 days per week and is only located in the location(s) posted. No relocation is offered.

At AT&T we empower leaders to drive meaningful change in a fast-evolving connected world. This role supports innovative solutions that improve customer experiences and strengthen the services we deliver.

What Youll Do:

AT&T is seeking an experienced product development professional to lead research design testing and delivery of innovative network technologies. This role translates business objectives and customer needs into scalable market-competitive product solutions.

• Lead product development: Manage the product lifecycle from concept through launch ensuring alignment with timelines budgets quality standards market needs and strategic objectives.
• Validate network technologies: Lead research design testing and development for residential and business gateways Wi-Fi extenders firmware workflows production environments end-to-end validation and controlled tester groups.
• Assess technical performance: Evaluate security port and network configurations while using scripted scans and collected data to identify defects missed requirements and issue criticality.
• Provide technical oversight: Ensure product designs are feasible functional scalable and supported by rigorous testing and quality assurance processes. Collaborate across teams: Partner with labs field technicians development supply chain marketing sales engineering and manufacturing teams to support product delivery defect resolution documentation and reporting.
• Conduct market and technology research: Monitor industry trends emerging technologies and competitive products to inform development strategies and translate requirements into technical specifications.
• Support customer engagement: Gather customer feedback understand user needs and incorporate insights into continuous product improvement.

Team Responsibilities

• Build and manage tools and processes that keep more than 14 million residential gateways operating smoothly current with firmware updates and enabled with enhanced features.
• Support high-quality Wi-Fi experiences for fiber and mobility-based internet customers.
• Operate systems that collect and analyze approximately 100 TB of data daily to identify firmware defects transient errors and unexplained device behavior.
• Partner with software development teams to determine root cause build fixes and validate solutions.
• Plan and execute safe firmware rollout strategies across target device populations to reduce the risk of customer-impacting issues or outages.
• Contribute to revenue growth cost savings and enhanced products and services for AT&T subscribers.
• Advance automation and AI-enabled capabilities to improve testing effectiveness and operational efficiency.

What Youll Need:

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Software Engineering Information Technology Computer Engineering Data Science/Analytics or equivalent work experience.
• Knowledge of fiber and mobility internet service installation and ordering processes.
• Experience with network technology firmware validation data analysis automation quality assurance or related product development activities preferred.

Joining our team comes with amazing perks and benefits:

• Medical/Dental/Vision coverage
• 401(k) plan
• Tuition reimbursement program
• Paid Time Off and Holidays (based on date of hire at least 23 days of vacation each year and 9 company-designated holidays)
• Paid Parental Leave
• Paid Caregiver Leave
• Additional sick leave beyond what state and local law require may be available but is unprotected
• Adoption Reimbursement
• Disability Benefits (short term and long term)
• Life and Accidental Death Insurance
• Supplemental benefit programs: critical illness/accident hospital indemnity/group legal
• Employee Assistance Programs (EAP)
• Extensive employee wellness programs
• Employee discounts up to 50% off on eligible AT&T mobility plans and accessories AT&T internet (and fiber where available) and AT&T phone

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It is the policy of AT&T to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age color national origin citizenship status physical or mental disability race religion creed gender sex sexual orientation gender identity and/or expression genetic information marital status status with regard to public assistance veteran status or any other characteristic protected by federal state or local addition AT&T will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.AT&T is a fair chance employer and does not initiate a background check until an offer is made.