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 You'll 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 You'll Need:

• Bachelor’s 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.

Our Lead Product Development Eng jobs earn between $143,800.00 - $215,800.00 USD Annual. Not to mention all the other amazing rewards that working at AT&T offers. Individual starting salary within this range may depend on geography, experience, expertise, and education/training.

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 law. In 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.