Software Program Manager- Electronic Product Development

Overview

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.

This position is in Santa Rosa, in the heart of California's beautiful wine country, and is the corporate headquarters of Keysight, home to many product development R&D labs. The Digital and Photonics R&D team in Santa Rosa develops and produces the world's highest performance oscilloscopes.

You will work in close collaboration with a diverse multi‑functional team of engineers, scientists, and researchers around the globe to meet the communications electronics measurement challenges of today and tomorrow. Giving customers insight into developing digital communication and Internet infrastructure signals and devices is our focus. Keysight is committed to providing innovative measurement solutions that enable our customers and partners to deliver the products and services that make a measurable difference in the lives of people everywhere.

Lead and develop a team of multi‑talented software engineers to invent, design, and develop new, world‑leading time‑domain measurement instruments, working with a multi‑functional, global team to deliver instrument software integrated into hardware to develop complete instruments from concept to full manufacturing shipment.

• Quickly learn the software architecture of sampling oscilloscopes, taking ownership to imagine, define, plan and execute one or more software releases per year to deliver new oscilloscope products and/or measurement features to market. Provide customer‑valued performance, robustness, and flexibility within cost, schedule and scope constraints.
• Lead your software team through the full software product development lifecycle. Work to balance customer‑facing requirements with pragmatic technical judgement to align on scope, investment cost, and schedule. Learn and follow the Keysight product lifecycle, respecting standards of business conduct and export control restrictions.
• Execute quality software development processes with product backlog definition, sprint planning, feature & issue prioritization, QA, and release deployment. Practice secure SW development. Manage technical debt (OS refresh/toolchain evolution/architecture refactoring) with customer‑facing scope in each release plan.
• Collaborate with sampling scope, OF NPI, and DP‑COE leadership team. Sampling scopes is a fast‑paced, dynamic team where hardware and software operating managers collaborate to efficiently complete multiple synergistic new product introductions. We also work extensively with customer‑facing inbound marketing, field sales force, Keysight Labs, and leaders of our large global manufacturing organization.
• Grow engineering talent. Evaluate, coach and reward to maximize individual performance and support the success of our sampling R&D teams.
• Support customers. Present technical information of value to customers, occasionally visiting global customer sites to present products and help customers with integration in a dynamically changing technology environment. Continuous learning is expected and supported throughout your career.

This position requires both significant software development knowledge and electronic product knowledge to make timely design and execution path risk tradeoff decisions. Relevant technical background of successful candidate will most likely be in software engineering with significant project execution experience.

Open to individuals with a track record of leading engineering teams to deliver projects involving new software…