Product Engineering Manager - Mechanical

Keysight is at the forefront of technology innovation, delivering breakthroughs and trusted insights in electronic design, simulation, prototyping, test, manufacturing, and optimization. Our ~16,800 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.

The Precision Meso-scale Technology Center (PMTC) provides the high-precision mechanical solutions that enable Keysight’s industry-leading RF, microwave, mmWave, and 5G/6G solutions in various industries, including AI infrastructure, communications, aerospace & defense, automotive & energy, and semiconductor measurement equipment.

PMTC is forming a Product Engineering team, and this role is at our Headquarters in Santa Rosa, CA. The Product Engineering Manager builds and leads a team of Product Engineers, each of whom owns a mechanical product family end-to-end, and is accountable for the team’s results in product-level yield, product quality and customer support across PMTC. We’re looking for an accomplished, hands‑on leader who sets a clear direction, develops people, and consistently drives results.

The ideal candidate communicates clearly and effectively, partners well with Keysight product lines, operations, process engineering, and cross‑functional engineering teams, and is comfortable facilitating technical discussions and resolving priority conflicts among diverse stakeholders. This role requires sound judgment, strong problem‑solving skills, attention to detail, and the ability to make informed decisions in a fast‑paced, dynamic environment while managing multiple priorities and meeting deadlines.

The primary responsibilities of a PMTC Product Engineering Manager include:

• Hire, coach and develop a team of Product Engineers; set clear goals and performance expectations, and assign product families by volume, complexity and yield risk.
• Define how Product Engineering works with Process Engineering and Integration Engineering: ownership boundaries, NPI-to-production handoff exit criteria, and escalation paths.

• Own yield and cost-of-poor-quality targets across all product families: first-pass yield, scrap, rework and cost of poor quality. Review top losses with the team, and make sure cross-process RCCA (8D, DMAIC) is led to closure when a failure spans more than one process block.
• Ensure product conformance to drawing, GD&T and customer intent (AS9100 / ISO 9001): consistent NCM / MRB disposition, CAR / CAPA closure, ER / waiver and deviation governance, and SPC on critical-to-quality features in partnership with process engineering.

• Be the escalation point for Keysight product lines and R&D on quality events, recovery plans and delivery risk. Make sure Product Engineers give early, factual notice when yield or quality will affect delivery.
• Partner with operations, process engineering, integration engineering and metrology to prioritize across competing demands and to balance yield recovery, delivery and cost.

• Build product-family knowledge and capability: critical features, failure modes, approved waivers and lessons learned; set the standard for production OSP qualification.
• Provide DFM / inspectability feedback to Keysight R&D on…