Senior Principal AI Architect

Keysight is at the forefront of technology innovation, delivering breakthroughs and trusted insights in electronic design, simulation, prototyping, test, manufacturing, and optimization. Our 16800 employees create world-class solutions in communications, 5G, automotive, energy, quantum, aerospace, defense, and semiconductor markets for customers in over 100 countries. Learn more about what we do.

Our award-winning culture embraces a bold vision of where technology can take us and a passion for tackling challenging problems with industry-first solutions. We believe that when people feel a sense of belonging, they can be more creative, innovative, and thrive at all points in their careers.

Software & AI Labs is seeking a Senior Principal AI Architect to define enterprise AI architecture and accelerate adoption across Keysight. This role will shape reusable platforms, customer-facing solutions, and scalable adoption patterns that connect AI Labs investments to Keysight’s growth priorities and customer opportunities.

The Senior Principal AI Architect will set technical standards, design principles, and architecture direction for AI-enabled platforms and solutions. This senior individual contributor role requires leadership through influence, technical credibility, executive communication, and cross-functional collaboration.

The successful candidate will translate AI Labs’ strategy into architectural priorities, technology roadmaps, reusable capabilities, and execution guidance that accelerate adoption, reduce duplication, and create measurable enterprise value.

• Define and communicate an enterprise AI architecture vision that aligns AI Labs investments with customer needs, business unit priorities, and emerging technology trends.
• Establish reusable architecture patterns that improve interoperability, scalability, maintainability, production readiness, and business unit adoption.
• Partner with AI Labs leadership and senior Keysight stakeholders to shape long-term technology strategy, roadmaps, and architectural priorities.
• Drive architectural consistency across AI Platform, Models & Data Science, Agentic Framework initiatives, and product teams through standards, reference architectures, and design patterns.
• Identify common capabilities across programs and business unit engagements to reduce duplication and increase reuse of platforms, datasets, models, tools, and engineering patterns.
• Review major AI initiatives to ensure solutions are scalable, maintainable, secure, supportable, and aligned to measurable business value.
• Build alignment across business units and partner organizations by clarifying architectural tradeoffs and helping teams converge on scalable implementation paths.
• Mentor architects, senior engineers, product leaders, and technical contributors through design reviews, technical guidance, architecture forums, and thought leadership.
• Guide technology selection, architectural decisions, and intellectual property development to ensure that AI Labs investments create durable technical advantage and long-term strategic value.

• Advanced degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
• Typically requires 10+ years of experience in senior technical architecture roles with increasing scope and measurable business impact.
• Expertise in one or more areas such as applied AI, machine learning systems, data platforms, software architecture, or AI-enabled product development.
• Strong systems thinking, with the ability to turn recurring use cases into reusable capabilities, standards, and platforms.
• Experience in senior technical leadership roles such as Principal Architect, Chief…